Lol, yes I did. I only dropped Chrome completely when they dropped adblock support. Curiosity would always get me and I'd try Chrome-based browsers against my better judgement.
Holy. Its a good thing tabs can go inactive now, lol. I saw an extension that allowed you to convert tabs to lists so you didn't need them open and you could even port your tab lists to other devices without the need for syncing... I think it was called OneTab? Yeah, just checked.
I recommended it to a friend who is a similar tab user and he uses it quite a bit now.
I hear you. It really is that smooth. Some may disagree, but I don't think there's anything wrong in choosing Brave. Just be sure to go through your settings and make certain that there's nothing on that you don't want on. They have a tendency to do that to their users.
I believe there was an update a while back that even turned things on that had been turned off by the user previously, but they claim it was an accident. But with any browser you should always keep an eye on your settings after updating, anyway.
This looks like a good read. I'm sure many of the Firefox recommended settings can be applied to it's various forks, too. Thank you for this! I've got it bookmarked and will be checking it out soon.
Nothing wrong with that. Everyone has their own vision of what Firefox should be, and some just want the original experience.
Workplaces are the number one thing that keeps unpopular software afloat... at least you don't have to use it for anything personal. Chrome isn't unpopular, per se, but Google is definitely seeing a decline overall. I remember seeing an article that their search engine is actually losing % in numbers.
lol! I just grabbed librewolf-bin after talking about it here (actually, I've almost got it. I lost track and forgot to accept the yay prompts, lol).
Have you looked into creating your own local hosted homepage dashboard for tracking your servers and such? Its something I'm very interested in doing, but I need to learn from the ground up. There's so many AI answers now, much of it incorrect, that its getting more difficult to learn things on my own these days.
lol Poor IE. In the user setting that's all its good for. Good thing they still get businesses to use it. A big reason I love Linux is that it doesn't have Edge stuck to it like a leech and I don't even need a browser to get a browser (though I think this can also be accomplished in Windows if you know how).
Firefox and Brave was my duo for a long time, too.
I really love both of these browsers, I really do. They are amazing choices if you don't have the weird bugs and lag that I've unfortunately experienced. I still miss Vivaldi a lot.
I still occasionally check out Brave and it usually is quick and smooth every time. There was a time I solely used it for logins and personal applications.
Give Floorp a shot sometime, its so smooth and light if you're looking for something in the performance bracket.
You're the first other user I've seen to mention IronFox. I have it as a backup. Its relatively new, isn't it? And it goes beyond to make sure it's privacy first. To the point where it won't even connect to third party apps for login purposes. Definitely my dark horse Android browser.
Iirc, you have to add the repository to F-Droid, which keeps it from being recognized more.
Ladybird is the most exciting thing to happen to browsers. Madlads really doing it, building from the ground up. I have mad respect for them. I gotta see if they have a donation page and give them some support. I want this to work and blow everything else out of the water.
I saw that Mullvad had a browser now. It's one of my favorite VPNs. I'd still use it if I didn't need port forwarding. Now I'm on AirVPN (for better or for worse) and run it through Eddie on Arch.
No, I agree. I've had 0 problems with it and it will be my first recommendations to newer users, as well. I always tell people to be careful with extensions though, as Mozilla states that they do not review every extension and you could add something nefarious.
I mean, that could be the same for Chrome, but it's been so long since I've touched that browser that I don't even know what it looks like anymore, let alone what their addon policy is.
Lol, brief time and more in the general public. Very brief time, before it even had a mobile app. I was still on Reddit then, and it was the number one recommended everywhere. I'm foggy, but I believe it didn't even have the wallet at the time (though correct me if I'm wrong, because I may be).
I've been following browser trends since Netscape Navigator, and I catch the small shifts, no matter how brief. Though, admittedly, it may have just been the groups I ran in that used it. I can't speak for everyone, just what I saw at the time.
Weird. For me, I can't stop Fennec from switching back to desktop mode occassionally. I can't figure out if its a setting I have on or a bug, tbh, but its inconsistent, so I'm going to say its the latter. I'm fairly sure it can do it, though.
I used a browser that had this... lemme take a look at my phone, I might be able to figure which one. Ah! Fulguris. It's a pretty decent underdog browser, and even lets you customize how wide you want desktop pages to be per orientation, from what I'm seeing. I remember being able to get the tabs to view as desktop tabs, but it's been a while since I've used it.
I have a Pixel 7 Pro I've been itching to put Graphene on. The fact that everything can be containerized in a stock environment is just too good. ROMs have come so far since the old days of Resurrection Remix. I remember flashing that on my old Moto X, specifically because I bought it secondhand and there was no connections at all, even after factory resetting.
LTE, 3g, Wifi, nothing worked. So I rooted it and made sure to install the drivers alongside Resurrection Remix (which were called the modem drivers, iirc) and was surprised that everything was working. The fact that we now can run whole systems in containers is an amazing win for technology.
I need to try Librewolf. I've seen the praises it gets here on Lemmy. I've been holding off, because I feel like Floorp is very similar. I may try Firedragon as well, but I feel like it may be rather bloated as far as FF forks go.
That's a big one for me. It's why I mainly use Firefox forks. I'm feeling pretty anti-Google these days, anyway. Though there is a stripped down Chromium browser that's supposed to be de-Googled and I think still allows ad blockers. I think, I'm not 100% sure. It's just simply called Chromium. I used to run it on my Pi4, because it took the least amount of resources and was the smoothest experience.
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Lol, yes I did. I only dropped Chrome completely when they dropped adblock support. Curiosity would always get me and I'd try Chrome-based browsers against my better judgement.