What web-browser(s) do you use and why?

[WinterOwl]

Used Firefox for years until recently I switched completely to Brave. One of the reasons for the switch was that one of the crucial websites (for me) stopped working properly in Firefox. I came to like the look of Brave more too. Also, for some reason Brave is faster in terms of loading pages.

 

[rafales1959]

Brave-origin

 

[deb_user]

The Proton extensions work in other browsers as well as Firefox. I would hate to give those up.

 

[piorunz]

I have been using Firefox since the dark ages when it first came out as Firebird/Phoenix. I have yet to find a reason to not use it.

I've been on the same boat until recently. Been using Firefox since it was in beta version, around 21 years ago.
However, in recent years Mozilla has shown they are not friend of the people, but started acting more like a greedy corporation. That's where I parted ways with them. Although, I still use temporary e-mails from Mozilla (Mozilla Relay service), paying them $1 a month. I use this despite migrating to LibreWolf. LibreWolf is a fork of Mozilla, closely tracking Firefox, but with Mozilla corp bits and telemetry removed, so I am not loosing any Firefox experience, really.

I may have forgotten about many other smaller reasons, but here are some links and quotes that made me change my mind about Mozilla:

Wikipedia:
In 2025, Mozilla received criticism after changes to the Firefox Terms of Use.

The criticism was centered around a clause that gave Mozilla a "nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license" to use any information that was uploaded or inputted into the browser. The new terms were perceived to reduce privacy, and were seen to be connected to AI, while Mozilla denied that these were the motives.
Also, Krebs on Security:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/nearly-a-year-later-mozilla-is-still-promoting-onerep/

And last one for now, Mitchell Baker's salary whilst at Mozilla, that one was pretty ridiculous, getting millions out of Mozilla while Firefox market was shrinking (and is still shrinking to this day)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Mozilla_Foundation_and_Mozilla_Corporation

 

[Mike-BTU]

Vivaldi on my phone, Firefox ESR (and sometimes Vivaldi) on Debian.

 

[Cyberbleuet]

Hi, I've been using Firefox for 10 years and I'm very happy with it.

 

[KGIII]

Brave Browsers built in ad blocker is baked into the browser and does not rely on the manifest 2 or 3 etc etc......and literally gives the upward pointing middle finger to google.

Which is why I use Brave for my YouTube watching.

 

[Condobloke]

AS shown in post 20 : https://www.linux.org/threads/what-web-browser-s-do-you-use-and-why.68846/post-314196
by @craigevil , I now use 'Private Grammar Checker - Harper'
i find it quicker than 'AI Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool'
and far less intrusive.
I run it with its default settings

Recommended.

 

[ron.alan]

@Condobloke

Here: https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml

And for my spare computer that is not AVX compatible,
here: https://ftp2.palemoon.org/avx/linux/

 

[The Duck]

I use whatever the default browser for the distro I'm using.

No other reason.

Chromium on Easy OS.

Firefox on the rest.

I do have Seamonkey on Easy OS although it is just to busy for me way to much stuff.

I also use Palemoon on certain Puppy distros.

I stay as far away from Google Chrome as I can just don't care their shenanigans.

I use Ublock Origin with Firefox.

I use Ad Block Pius with Chromium.

Ublock Lite allows to many ads to slip by on Youtube where Ad Block Plus stops them all on Chromium.

 

[blunix]

I have just switched to the mullvad browser (via flatpak) and I'm quite happy with it. Supposedly they developed it together with the tor project, which adds good credibility in my opinion.
I "migrated" to it from librewolf, which I used before.
No, you do not need mullvad or tor to use it, can be a normal daily driver for normal internet surfing.
It does a couple of things well for privacy and adblocking, and I'm quite happy with it so far. Very much worth a look for the privacy/security focused amongst you!

 

[craigevil]

I have just switched to the mullvad browser (via flatpak) and I'm quite happy with it. Supposedly they developed it together with the tor project, which adds good credibility in my opinion.
I "migrated" to it from librewolf, which I used before.
No, you do not need mullvad or tor to use it, can be a normal daily driver for normal internet surfing.
It does a couple of things well for privacy and adblocking, and I'm quite happy with it so far. Very much worth a look for the privacy/security focused amongst you!

On Debian you can use extrepo to install the Mullvad browser stable and Beta.

 

[//////]

i think ill move to Firefox or Brave, Vivaldi is good also. depends alot of that adblock situation.

or, maybe compile my own browser ...

... i once compiled firefox from source, i had absolutely no clue what i were doing, i made it without javascript support ... it were pain to use but atleast it worked, kind of xD

its gonna be interesting to see what browser people migrate to.

 

[GatorsFan]

I use 3 browsers Firefox, Brave and Tor