Browsers -- Which are you using?

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October 08, 2019, 08:51 PM

r0gue

Browsers -- Which are you using?

I'm on Chrome, and debating trying to sneak into some privacy. Though I'm dubious I can pull it off. Firefox is on my mind.<BR><BR>But the tech giants can correlate so many sources and datapoints, I'm thinking it's fruitless unless I get REALLY serious.Which browser do you use?Microsoft IE ... really!?Microsoft EdgeChromeFirefoxSome freaky also-ran (eSplain pleze)

October 08, 2019, 09:09 PM

lkdr1989

Been pretty happy with Brave.

...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV

October 08, 2019, 09:12 PM

kkina

Some freaky also-ran called Safari.

October 08, 2019, 09:21 PM

DetonicsMk6

Opera

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October 08, 2019, 09:26 PM

parabellum

Firefox, exclusively

You'd have to hold me at gunpoint to make me use Internet Explorer or Edge.

October 08, 2019, 09:34 PM

sig226fan

Another vote for Opera. Dumped Firefox and Waterfox after they seemed to bog down after updates. Very happy with Opera.

October 08, 2019, 09:41 PM

Patrick-SP2022

I generally use chrome but as a web application developer, I wind up using all of the listed browsers for compatibility testing.

The corporate clients we have generally use chrome and IE.
The edge browser seems to be getting more popular.

October 08, 2019, 10:17 PM

Pipe Smoker

quote:
Originally posted by kkina:
Some freaky also-ran called Safari.

Good on you kkina. Ditto.

October 08, 2019, 10:32 PM

bobtheelf

Mostly Chrome.

Sometimes Brave.

October 08, 2019, 10:38 PM

Pyker

Firefox ESR. I have to use IE for a couple of programs at work which are incompatible with FF. On my phone, it's the Ghostery browser.

October 08, 2019, 11:16 PM

CoolRich59

I'd like to dump Chrome, but Firefox just bogs down on my laptop.

I use duckduckgo for search and Ghostery to try to maintain some privacy.

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October 08, 2019, 11:19 PM

airbubba

chrome incognito + firefox private browsing.

bing search

October 08, 2019, 11:45 PM

FenderBender

Opera for me on all devices I really like Opera touch on my phone.

October 09, 2019, 01:41 AM

winter_war

I use Waterfox. It's a branch off of Firefox before Firefox Quantum. It still works with all of the legacy add-ons and extensions, most of which are still supported.

October 09, 2019, 04:29 AM

bald1

Waterfox here as well.
Works fast on my over 5 year old Dell Inspiron 3847 (i3847-5077BK) machine now running Win10 off a Samsung 860 EVO SSD 1 Tb drive.

On my 2008 vintage Dell Vostro 1000 AMD Athalon 64x2 laptop updated with a Crucial BX300 120Gb SSD drive and 4Gb RAM, I'm running Firefox which came with the Linux Mint 19.1 installation package.

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October 09, 2019, 05:32 AM

OldMick

Primarily Safari but occasionally Chrome.

October 09, 2019, 06:15 AM

mark123

I moved to Opera back during my programming days (2007). Since then I've tried all the others but nothing compares.

October 09, 2019, 07:43 AM

Paten

I use Firefox and have it set to automatically purge all history/cookies when I close the browser. This means I can't maintain any settings for websites between sessions but I've been doing it for years now and am used to it.

October 09, 2019, 07:43 AM

Beancooker

Chrome on Windows machines. Safari on the Apples.

quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Firefox, exclusively

You'd have to hold me at gunpoint to make me use Internet Explorer or Edge.

I used Firefox exclusively as well. Their change around version 2017 or so, when JavaScript was no longer supported, forced my hand at a change. We used software by Honeywell (Vocollect Voice) and you have to enable JavaScript to install it or make changes on the devices.

100% agree ace in IE or Edge. I will say that IE is better than Edge, but that’s like comparing wasp stings. They both suck and no one wants them.

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