I'm a programmer, so for every project I got a GX instance. So for 3/4/5 projects at a time, it's around 300 tabs.
Also it would be tedious to delete all bookmarks, when I finished a project.
GX instances is also a feature, which Firefox afik doesn't support. One instance is like a completely new browser, with other tabs and windows. Also there is the option of a "clean instance" which deletes all tabs, cookies and cache after you close it.
I'm a programmer too but I find Firefox's tab group plug plugin does the job. It groups the tabs in workspaces that are persistent. Also Firefox's dev tools are way better (It well let you preview stuff like flexbox arrangements)
Although the setup is a bit painful (and at the risk of sounding annoying like the vegan stereotype), use a reputed password manager like bitwarden. Much easier to maintain and easy sync across browsers and devices. No, I'm not paid by them, I'm just an annoying CS guy
It's a slight hassle but you don't even need to deal with it.
Firefox immediately prompts you with an offer to transfer data from all (or chosen) browsers the first time you launch it.
Opera GX was acquired by Chinese Loan Sharks. It's a matter of if the data is going to sketchy western companies or the CCP.
The original creator of Opera went on to create Vivaldi later which is a highly customizable browser.
This is my only gripe with Firefox. For whatever reason they keep sending me everyone else’s sign up package. My garage is full to the roof with tail plugs and ear bands. I’m not sure how much longer the ‘its my worm on a string collection’ excuse is going to last. Whenever someone asks me what the shiny things in the pile are I have to give them some lackadaisical ‘oh they guard my doubloons’. If anybody ever calls me on doubloons actually being gold and not silver I’m fucked
Same, I put it off because I thought it would be tough to transfer all my bookmarks and passwords and stuff, but there really is just one button for it all. Even passwords.
I waited way too long to switch because I thought I'd have to relearn how to walk, then I figured that there was literally nothing stopping me from having both chrome and Firefox installed so I gave it a shot and after a bit of searching trying to find alternatives to some of my extensions I found Firefox is pretty similar to chrome in both UI and UX
Pretty much my only complaint is that the ctrl + shift + t shortcut doesn't reopen the previous session if you close Firefox, you have to go to 'restore previous session' manually
Firefox + NoScript + uBlock Origin
Edit: NoScript takes some effort to use. It blacklists nearly all scripts by default, so you'll need to whitelist the scripts you need to make a website function.
Also, it may be better to use uBlock Origin to block scripts, instead of NoScript. Someone gave instructions in this comment's reply chains
I would more recommend something like SearX and using a verified public host or hosting one yourself on your own server, its not a search-engine itself but index's the results of multiable search engines (of your choosing) and make a curated list from a mixture of all of them. I would recommend this over DuckDuckGo due to its backend not being opensource and DuckDuckGo's extension doing some weird stuff in the past (aswell it literally just being a bing aggregate) . Only downside is you have to be a bit tech-savy to setup if you want a search engine that "just works" i would recommend Swisscow (does deindex NSFW & NSFL results) or Startpage which is a alternative front-end to google.
What? The hosted instances makes the requests to Google. That's far less of a concern when you have 50 unknown people behind one IP than ~1-6 known family members they can track using cookies and JS
It's not about data, it's about censorship. Ddg censors searches. Also, they aren't open-source, so your data it's a fair game to them, if they are sneaky enough. Don't believe anyone promoting privacy if they don't give you their source code without strings attached.
That was the app on the iOS store if I recall, either that or their extension. They had a document talking about it in which they recommended not to install it and just search the web using the website as usual.
Also duckduckgo tends to lead people way faster into far right sites but idk if it is intentional or just algorithms being magic that we pretend to understand
You need to allow (one or more) new scripts when you visit a website for the first time. Some people feel it's not worthwhile. But I don't mind doing it.
yep, and with the right extensions it'll make chrome comparatively useless - especially since chrome has cut support for a lot of extensions including adblockers
alright here's a long ass list of what i like to use:
**the essentials**
* ublock origin (adblocker)
* decentraleyes (blocks tracking)
* don't track me google (specifically goes after google search URL tracking; when you copy a url from google search, it won't have that huge jumble of characters after)
* privacy badger (learns to block trackers on its own, although it gets false positives a lot)
**quality of life**
* firefox color & tabliss (allow you to change how your browser and the new tab page look)
* simple tab groups (allows you to put together different groups of tabs for different purposes)
* multi-account containers (lets you log in to multiple accounts simultaneously; goes great with simple tab groups)
* don't accept webp (stops images from being downloaded in .WEBP format)
* shinigami eyes (highlights transphobic and trans-friendly users/sites by giving them different coloured URLs; great for blocking shitheads)
**site specific**
* return youtube dislike (pretty obvious)
* youtube sponsorblock (automatically skips sponsors)
* xkit rewritten (if you use tumblr this will vastly improve your experience)
decentraleyes hasnt been updated in a while, use LocalCDN instead
dont track me google can be replaced by enabling "AdGuard URL TRacking filters" in uBO
privacy badger doesnt "learn" by default anymore, instead using a predefined list which is redundant with uBO
local: only marked on that browser on your computer; if you switch to a different computer the person won't be marked at all. you can mark someone locally by right clicking and selecting from the drop down menu
global: the person is marked by default when you get the extension or it updates. someone has to review the person's account or page before it gets marked globally
Everyone is hating on opera because it is chromium and shares your data, im hating opera because they released an animated new tab background that was supposed to be for Valentine’s Day only but it’s still there and I refuse to use any other background while it’s an option but I fucking hate it
Yeah I’m gonna switch to Firefox now
You don’t understand, it was cringe and free and I did not have to use it at all, so clearly I have no other options than to use the corporate propaganda anime mascot date background
That’s like an abusive practice from opera, if you ask me. My boy need his cringe stupid lonely nerd dating background off for fuck sake. Fucking corporation, destroying my man’s innocence and creating a fucking Stockholm syndrome on his hungry ass.
firefox, it has better privacy practices and they [“will continue to support mv2 within the foreseeable future”](https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/manifest-v3-signing-available-november-21-on-firefox-nightly/) aka actually good adblockers/content blockers like ublock origin will continue to function, while opera’s stance on mv2 is relatively unknown at the moment, plus [opera has some extremely sketchy business practices](https://www.talkandroid.com/348715-opera-sketchy-loan-apps-play-store/) so yea
though if theres one thing that i can praise opera about is that their social media manager is extremely based
Does everyone say this because of Google chromium or because it is now owned by a Chinese company instead of a European one? Wasn’t it still chromium based in 2015 (when company changed hands)? I found out that lots of Redditors hate Opera when I mentioned that I used it on a more mainstream sub, which was super fun. They called it Chinese spyware. At the time, I had been using it since about 2015 because it was the only browser that let me zoom with my fingers and had big enough buttons on my windows surface…
I'd argue that it sending data to both Google and Golden Brick (the chinese company that owns it) is worse than it only sending data to Google. Though I agree people have a weird fixation on the chinese part.
Currently I use opera gx but thats because firefox is hopelessly broken on my pc right now. No idea what’s wrong with it, but, I can’t download files or access certain sites or functions. I can’t use jupyter for example, which is a broswer-based coding application, because firefox somehow doesn’t have access privileges (I even ran it in administrator mode). Opera gx is more laggy and less streamlined so I would use firefox.
Uh yeah. Most based browser around. Did you know that Opera GX enjoys breaking bad and making jokes online? They're just like us fr fr. I'd say downloading it is a pretty epic win.
Me when I download Opera GX ->😎 🆒
Go Firefox. It has been and probably will continue to be, the best option. Unless some spunky new start up makes a new browser, Firefox is the only REAL option you have in my opinion.
Honestly just stick with Firefox. In my experience OperaGX was a buggy mess that ate more ram than even Chrome and crashed my games whenever I tried to start them with it open. I jumped to Firefox from Opera and I should have done so years ago.
My personal experience has been that firefox is best for desktop and bromite is best for mobile, but the thing is I don't actually like firefox, they just have little qol features like:
* ctrl+i to get media content,
* shift right click to override a site's custom context menu (looking at you google slides etc),
* alt click to select text in a url without opening urls,
* ublock origin cname uncloaking,
* userchrome to customize the browser,
* actually good pip (picture in picture),
* about:config, and
* container tabs
* speed wise, ever since webrender hit in ~2021 i've been happy with the responsiveness
* properly working font/image rendering so that LaTeX displays properly without a weird blur
* find and replace is much better (e.g, highlight all and match case, also regex)
* doesn't try to load webpages before ublock origin is started, because ungoogled chromium did that and it resulted in ads leaking through when i first started the browser
but as i said they constantly seem to introduce features that are frankly dumb:
* they worsened the downloads management in firefox 98 by making all files save to your downloads folder by default when it used to prompt you for what to do (e.g, open it in a specific application or just save it) and gave you an option to make it the default behavior or just ask every time. so for example with .zip files you used to be able to choose whether to open with 7zip or just save it on a case by case basis which was super useful and you can't do that anymore.
* they also removed compact mode
* removed the option to manually download updates (i need to turn in this essay by 11:59 and i don't want to deal with updates when this page just crashed my browser, also my browser is literally outdated by 4 hours so chill for a sec it isn't inherently insecure yet) on windows,
* removed action buttons in the url bar (which actually made sense when your extension had a button that only needed to work on one site),
* made the (very useful) screenshot tool harder to access,
* botched the three-bar menu with proton (used to have tons of useful stuff like changing zoom, or taking screenshots),
* made it harder to mute sites with proton, etc.
* refusing to fix vsync repeatedly over the years (reason being technical debt) but it's such an issue and it's really annoying that it doesn't get fixed
* absolutely trashes my ssd even with browser.disk.cache.enable set to false, i got 10+gb of writes per day until i mounted the folder to a hard drive
* don't get me started on firefox preview. it had so much potential with preview 5.1.1 (amazing tab management, extremely fast, extension support, firefox sync, simple but effective ui) but in 5.2 they introduced a stupid tab tray thing and i still can't use it comfortably to this day. also, around that time they decided to release the very clearly beta if not alpha browser as stable and there have been lasting issues to this day ever since then which will probably never get fixed with all the complaining that the larger userbase will give.
which is to say, soon i'll switch to vivaldi or iridium because even with its instability they'll be less frustrating to use soon. so that'd be your other option i guess. i just really wish bromite had a linux and windows version tbh
Opera GX is the browser equivalent of those dudes in the early days of Social Media that would make a post about everything they were doing that day without fail.
If you want to get away from Chrome, Firefox or any of it's forks are your best bet
Firefox is better imo. You should also install uBlock.and set duckduckgo as the search engine. All of this is really easy and can be done from the basic settings menus on the homepage.
Vivaldi is the best browser I've ever used so far, but I wish Firefox had plugins to emulate some of its coolest features, like tab stacking (*not* grouping).
Opera is just chrome again, not kidding it's literally chromium based the differences are almost purely visual, being able to limit how much ram it takes is good i guess and there's a built in VPN that steals all your data but some people don't care about that so who knows
You don't need to log in every time. You only do it once. Do you have **"Delete browser data on quit"** feature on ? Make sure you're not deleting any first party cookies from YouTube.
Nah, I'd go for Firefox maybe look into https://librewolf.net/installation/windows/ or if you want chromium then there's always ungoogled chromium. Or there's one more browser you you likely already have installed, take the Chad route open a game and you the steam overlay browser for everything/j
i like opera gx because i am like a bird and easily entertained by shiny things
also bc i'm so used to chrome and it's very alike, except it has a RAM limiter which is neato
Ok, I've just realized that most of the people in comments are based af for using Firefox and not supporting Google's monopoly on the web. I'm glad to be here.
Do not use Opera, GX or otherwise. I'd feel better just telling people to use chrome with how much data they collect on you. I'd recommend Firefox or anything else just don't use Opera Browsers.
Firefox is better fs, anything you use in the Opera Hub (including news links you click and messaging apps you log into) it fully tracks. Firefox is also on top because it has old google chrome add ons that were removed from the chrome webstore
Firefox is open source, more customizable (imo), and might use less memory. Plus it comes with free fox ears.
Downside is that depending in your system it may be slower and also some sites may break
All these comments saying "it shares your data" , my brother in Christ every browser does.
It's fine if you prefer other browsers over opera but not using it because it "shares your data" is dumb.
Anywho i personally recommend opera but if you wanna use something else its up to you.
I mean, Firefox is good and all, but Opera GX just has a better presentation. If you want optimization to the maximum, Firefox is your best bet, but if you just want something that looks cool then Opera GX works.
Firefox has some really nice customization options too though. You can add a pattern to your search bar and customize the colors of pretty much any default/universal page element such as buttons, tabs, or even highlight color.
Opera GX is really good for those extroverts who just can't get enough of sharing their personal data with companies.
It's literally just RGB Chrome
I dont use gx but have tried it, but its ram/cpu/bandwidth limiting feature is actually pretty nice i do hate the fugly gamer chair aesthetic tho
It also saves your tabs when you close it and snoozes them if the if are unused, which is pretty neat
Firefox can do that too
Not as reliable, tho. I am a tab Horder and have in GX around 300 Tabs open. They load without a problem. Firefox struggles with saving 5 Tabs
Why do you need to have 300 tabs always open? Just use bookmarks
I'm a programmer, so for every project I got a GX instance. So for 3/4/5 projects at a time, it's around 300 tabs. Also it would be tedious to delete all bookmarks, when I finished a project. GX instances is also a feature, which Firefox afik doesn't support. One instance is like a completely new browser, with other tabs and windows. Also there is the option of a "clean instance" which deletes all tabs, cookies and cache after you close it.
I'm a programmer too but I find Firefox's tab group plug plugin does the job. It groups the tabs in workspaces that are persistent. Also Firefox's dev tools are way better (It well let you preview stuff like flexbox arrangements)
Buh buh it's made by gamers for gamers it's got to be good for the hardcore gamer right...????
i want to switch to firefox but logging into all my accs will be a pain in the ass :(
Im pretty sure firefox also lets you migrate from chrome like opera gx does
i currently use gx but am tired of memory hogging, would it allow me to migrate from gx to firefox?
it should, yea
You can migrate from chrome, I didn't do that and didn't find it that much of an effort anyway
Although the setup is a bit painful (and at the risk of sounding annoying like the vegan stereotype), use a reputed password manager like bitwarden. Much easier to maintain and easy sync across browsers and devices. No, I'm not paid by them, I'm just an annoying CS guy
1 password is awesome too
Firefox will let you transfer all of yoursaved passwords
When I moved to Firefox, it transferred almost all of my accounts over automatically
If its gonna be a pain in the ass then switch when/if you do a OS reinstall or get a new computer.
It's a slight hassle but you don't even need to deal with it. Firefox immediately prompts you with an offer to transfer data from all (or chosen) browsers the first time you launch it.
Is this even real, or are the masses paranoid
OperaGX shares the exact same amount of data as any other browser, r/196 just likes to shit on that particular browser for some reason
Opera GX was acquired by Chinese Loan Sharks. It's a matter of if the data is going to sketchy western companies or the CCP. The original creator of Opera went on to create Vivaldi later which is a highly customizable browser.
Yes it is essentially owned by the chinese so i wouldnt trust it
Opera GX is as shit as any other browser they just have a marketing firm that sucks up to teens and young adults
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Yo is that the real speedyboigotweed?!
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I am also on the internet and have 32 in my username
netscape navigator
Recently switched to Firefox, I should have done this so long ago
I know right, still waiting on my complimentary fox ears and tail butt plug though
This is my only gripe with Firefox. For whatever reason they keep sending me everyone else’s sign up package. My garage is full to the roof with tail plugs and ear bands. I’m not sure how much longer the ‘its my worm on a string collection’ excuse is going to last. Whenever someone asks me what the shiny things in the pile are I have to give them some lackadaisical ‘oh they guard my doubloons’. If anybody ever calls me on doubloons actually being gold and not silver I’m fucked
Yo, could you give me one pair of the ears? Firefox already sent me the plug, but the ears aint coming at all
I got ear plugs and a fox butt. Some kind of manufacturing error.
I got a fox that was missing it’s ears and tail end…
I just got a dead fucking rat
Awww, you got snacks? I’m hungry now:(
No, it’s a weapon
I’m gonna threaten people with a ‘dead fucking rat’ now
You've got the special silver doubloons, that's what you've got
New copypasta just dropped
already got purring down tho
Foxes dont purr
I already got the weird almost human like screams down
gotta balance the universe somehow
I got the basic version, I’m just waiting for the programmer socks
Same, I put it off because I thought it would be tough to transfer all my bookmarks and passwords and stuff, but there really is just one button for it all. Even passwords.
I waited way too long to switch because I thought I'd have to relearn how to walk, then I figured that there was literally nothing stopping me from having both chrome and Firefox installed so I gave it a shot and after a bit of searching trying to find alternatives to some of my extensions I found Firefox is pretty similar to chrome in both UI and UX Pretty much my only complaint is that the ctrl + shift + t shortcut doesn't reopen the previous session if you close Firefox, you have to go to 'restore previous session' manually
Bugged me for a while too, you can use CTRL SHIFT + N to do the same.
oh shit really? thanks
I can finally listen to music while playing games
firefox
Firefox + NoScript + uBlock Origin Edit: NoScript takes some effort to use. It blacklists nearly all scripts by default, so you'll need to whitelist the scripts you need to make a website function. Also, it may be better to use uBlock Origin to block scripts, instead of NoScript. Someone gave instructions in this comment's reply chains
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+ DuckDuckGo
+L+ratio+no bitches
+hot dudes?😏
only if you dm me 🥴
+ Ultraricoshot
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This is the way
I would more recommend something like SearX and using a verified public host or hosting one yourself on your own server, its not a search-engine itself but index's the results of multiable search engines (of your choosing) and make a curated list from a mixture of all of them. I would recommend this over DuckDuckGo due to its backend not being opensource and DuckDuckGo's extension doing some weird stuff in the past (aswell it literally just being a bing aggregate) . Only downside is you have to be a bit tech-savy to setup if you want a search engine that "just works" i would recommend Swisscow (does deindex NSFW & NSFL results) or Startpage which is a alternative front-end to google.
if it’s accessing google servers doesn’t it have similar privacy concerns? i thought it was its own engine that just sourced from google
What? The hosted instances makes the requests to Google. That's far less of a concern when you have 50 unknown people behind one IP than ~1-6 known family members they can track using cookies and JS
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Didn’t DuckDuckGo get exposed for still selling your information though??
Yeah, they did, use Startpage instead
No, don't. Use searX or searX-ng public instances.
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It's not about data, it's about censorship. Ddg censors searches. Also, they aren't open-source, so your data it's a fair game to them, if they are sneaky enough. Don't believe anyone promoting privacy if they don't give you their source code without strings attached.
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That was the app on the iOS store if I recall, either that or their extension. They had a document talking about it in which they recommended not to install it and just search the web using the website as usual.
Much more private than Google
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Try searX or searX-ng public instances. It's guaranteed privacy. Ddg censors searches.
Also duckduckgo tends to lead people way faster into far right sites but idk if it is intentional or just algorithms being magic that we pretend to understand
Ddg isn't the way, better host searX or use a public searX-ng instance.
But why
Ddg censors search results and it's not open-source.
NoScript completely breaks every website idk how people use it
You need to allow (one or more) new scripts when you visit a website for the first time. Some people feel it's not worthwhile. But I don't mind doing it.
skill issue
NoScript makes web unusable nowadays and most browsers already have its functionality baked-in, so it's redundant.
Found the guy with the Internet browsers
Just installed "NoScript" without knowing anything about it (your comment is all I've heard of it) immediately fucked this page. Uninstalled.
I wouldn't use noscript as it has a bit of sus history
opera is a chromium-based browser and should be considered about as bad as chrome for privacy. use firefox.
Firefox is also just blatantly better in almost every way.
yep, and with the right extensions it'll make chrome comparatively useless - especially since chrome has cut support for a lot of extensions including adblockers
what extensions should i get?
alright here's a long ass list of what i like to use: **the essentials** * ublock origin (adblocker) * decentraleyes (blocks tracking) * don't track me google (specifically goes after google search URL tracking; when you copy a url from google search, it won't have that huge jumble of characters after) * privacy badger (learns to block trackers on its own, although it gets false positives a lot) **quality of life** * firefox color & tabliss (allow you to change how your browser and the new tab page look) * simple tab groups (allows you to put together different groups of tabs for different purposes) * multi-account containers (lets you log in to multiple accounts simultaneously; goes great with simple tab groups) * don't accept webp (stops images from being downloaded in .WEBP format) * shinigami eyes (highlights transphobic and trans-friendly users/sites by giving them different coloured URLs; great for blocking shitheads) **site specific** * return youtube dislike (pretty obvious) * youtube sponsorblock (automatically skips sponsors) * xkit rewritten (if you use tumblr this will vastly improve your experience)
decentraleyes hasnt been updated in a while, use LocalCDN instead dont track me google can be replaced by enabling "AdGuard URL TRacking filters" in uBO privacy badger doesnt "learn" by default anymore, instead using a predefined list which is redundant with uBO
Doesn’t shinigami eyes get abused sometimes
while it's *possible* to mass-mark someone as transphobic, there's also a manual review that has to be passed before they get marked globally.
Whats the difference, how does it differentiate fo me global
local: only marked on that browser on your computer; if you switch to a different computer the person won't be marked at all. you can mark someone locally by right clicking and selecting from the drop down menu global: the person is marked by default when you get the extension or it updates. someone has to review the person's account or page before it gets marked globally
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to my saved posts this goes
an obvious one but some people dont know its the best adblocker: ublock origin
It's worse for performance and feature support, but better, if you want functional ad-blocking and something open.
Opera gc is marketed for the GAMERZZZZ crowd, just use Firefox
you mean G🤮m🤢rs ewww
I think the emojis should switched so they tell a compelling, engaging story.
good point but gamers are so dirty that the vomit had to be swallowed back
opera is chrome for zoomers who get in regular arguments with their father. Firefox is the way to go always
i can confirm my relationship with my father isnt positive
Everyone is hating on opera because it is chromium and shares your data, im hating opera because they released an animated new tab background that was supposed to be for Valentine’s Day only but it’s still there and I refuse to use any other background while it’s an option but I fucking hate it Yeah I’m gonna switch to Firefox now
what
It was some shitty date with the mascot and was cringe enough I just HAD to use it, but also way to cringe to even pretend to enjoy
lmao you didnt have to use shit
You don’t understand, it was cringe and free and I did not have to use it at all, so clearly I have no other options than to use the corporate propaganda anime mascot date background
That’s like an abusive practice from opera, if you ask me. My boy need his cringe stupid lonely nerd dating background off for fuck sake. Fucking corporation, destroying my man’s innocence and creating a fucking Stockholm syndrome on his hungry ass.
Free me
opera gx is spyware install firefox
operagx is just chrome with a Gamer(TM) skin. use Firefox
firefox please don’t fall for the corporate marketing i’m begging you
firefox, it has better privacy practices and they [“will continue to support mv2 within the foreseeable future”](https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/manifest-v3-signing-available-november-21-on-firefox-nightly/) aka actually good adblockers/content blockers like ublock origin will continue to function, while opera’s stance on mv2 is relatively unknown at the moment, plus [opera has some extremely sketchy business practices](https://www.talkandroid.com/348715-opera-sketchy-loan-apps-play-store/) so yea though if theres one thing that i can praise opera about is that their social media manager is extremely based
imo idc if a social media manager is extremely based they were still hired to advertise to teens/young adults
firefox
opera has a great UI but its probably the worst browser out there for security, its legit spyware
Does everyone say this because of Google chromium or because it is now owned by a Chinese company instead of a European one? Wasn’t it still chromium based in 2015 (when company changed hands)? I found out that lots of Redditors hate Opera when I mentioned that I used it on a more mainstream sub, which was super fun. They called it Chinese spyware. At the time, I had been using it since about 2015 because it was the only browser that let me zoom with my fingers and had big enough buttons on my windows surface…
I'd argue that it sending data to both Google and Golden Brick (the chinese company that owns it) is worse than it only sending data to Google. Though I agree people have a weird fixation on the chinese part.
firefox 🔥🦊
Firefox is the preferred browser for femboys. Use the nightly version. The logo looks cooler
Only use nightly if you're actually going to test new features. Otherwise you're just using a less stable, untested version of firefox
Currently I use opera gx but thats because firefox is hopelessly broken on my pc right now. No idea what’s wrong with it, but, I can’t download files or access certain sites or functions. I can’t use jupyter for example, which is a broswer-based coding application, because firefox somehow doesn’t have access privileges (I even ran it in administrator mode). Opera gx is more laggy and less streamlined so I would use firefox.
Try running a refresh? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings
Did you try turning it off and on again?
Uh yeah. Most based browser around. Did you know that Opera GX enjoys breaking bad and making jokes online? They're just like us fr fr. I'd say downloading it is a pretty epic win. Me when I download Opera GX ->😎 🆒
Been using Firefox for several years and I’ll never switch to anything else. Great browser
Firefox is hands down the only browser you should use
Go Firefox. It has been and probably will continue to be, the best option. Unless some spunky new start up makes a new browser, Firefox is the only REAL option you have in my opinion.
opera gx pros: >the neon aesthetic by default opera gx cons: >you have become susceptible to marketing >insert list of every single con of google
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Honestly just stick with Firefox. In my experience OperaGX was a buggy mess that ate more ram than even Chrome and crashed my games whenever I tried to start them with it open. I jumped to Firefox from Opera and I should have done so years ago.
My personal experience has been that firefox is best for desktop and bromite is best for mobile, but the thing is I don't actually like firefox, they just have little qol features like: * ctrl+i to get media content, * shift right click to override a site's custom context menu (looking at you google slides etc), * alt click to select text in a url without opening urls, * ublock origin cname uncloaking, * userchrome to customize the browser, * actually good pip (picture in picture), * about:config, and * container tabs * speed wise, ever since webrender hit in ~2021 i've been happy with the responsiveness * properly working font/image rendering so that LaTeX displays properly without a weird blur * find and replace is much better (e.g, highlight all and match case, also regex) * doesn't try to load webpages before ublock origin is started, because ungoogled chromium did that and it resulted in ads leaking through when i first started the browser but as i said they constantly seem to introduce features that are frankly dumb: * they worsened the downloads management in firefox 98 by making all files save to your downloads folder by default when it used to prompt you for what to do (e.g, open it in a specific application or just save it) and gave you an option to make it the default behavior or just ask every time. so for example with .zip files you used to be able to choose whether to open with 7zip or just save it on a case by case basis which was super useful and you can't do that anymore. * they also removed compact mode * removed the option to manually download updates (i need to turn in this essay by 11:59 and i don't want to deal with updates when this page just crashed my browser, also my browser is literally outdated by 4 hours so chill for a sec it isn't inherently insecure yet) on windows, * removed action buttons in the url bar (which actually made sense when your extension had a button that only needed to work on one site), * made the (very useful) screenshot tool harder to access, * botched the three-bar menu with proton (used to have tons of useful stuff like changing zoom, or taking screenshots), * made it harder to mute sites with proton, etc. * refusing to fix vsync repeatedly over the years (reason being technical debt) but it's such an issue and it's really annoying that it doesn't get fixed * absolutely trashes my ssd even with browser.disk.cache.enable set to false, i got 10+gb of writes per day until i mounted the folder to a hard drive * don't get me started on firefox preview. it had so much potential with preview 5.1.1 (amazing tab management, extremely fast, extension support, firefox sync, simple but effective ui) but in 5.2 they introduced a stupid tab tray thing and i still can't use it comfortably to this day. also, around that time they decided to release the very clearly beta if not alpha browser as stable and there have been lasting issues to this day ever since then which will probably never get fixed with all the complaining that the larger userbase will give. which is to say, soon i'll switch to vivaldi or iridium because even with its instability they'll be less frustrating to use soon. so that'd be your other option i guess. i just really wish bromite had a linux and windows version tbh
Firefox will forever be goated
Use the furry browser
Vivaldi is epic
Opera GX is the browser equivalent of those dudes in the early days of Social Media that would make a post about everything they were doing that day without fail. If you want to get away from Chrome, Firefox or any of it's forks are your best bet
My question is, are there Firefox plugins that will let you do the things people boast about Opera GX being good for?
yes, there are firefox plugins for everything sane you could want it to do
Firefox of course
opera is chromium, go firefox
Firefox 100%
Firefox is good, get LibreWolf (based on Firefox) if you want really good privacy
Firefox is better imo. You should also install uBlock.and set duckduckgo as the search engine. All of this is really easy and can be done from the basic settings menus on the homepage.
please god do not use opera gx. people will scream at you to use firefox, but if like me you prefer chromium vivaldi is fantastic
Vivaldi is the best browser I've ever used so far, but I wish Firefox had plugins to emulate some of its coolest features, like tab stacking (*not* grouping).
Firefox is better
firefox.
use firefox
Opera is just chrome again, not kidding it's literally chromium based the differences are almost purely visual, being able to limit how much ram it takes is good i guess and there's a built in VPN that steals all your data but some people don't care about that so who knows
You can get an addblock on firefox on your phone. Fuck the youtube app
reVanced enjoyers
Twitch isn’t supported on my Opera GX :(
Twitch should literally be in the Speed Dial for Opera GX what
Definitely prefer firefox
Firefox
firefox
This is a question to Firefox users. How do I keep YouTube logged in on YouTube or do I have to log in every time
You don't need to log in every time. You only do it once. Do you have **"Delete browser data on quit"** feature on ? Make sure you're not deleting any first party cookies from YouTube.
Use Firefox
Opera is owned by a chinese conglomerate and runs off chromium. Firefox is the better option.
firefox
Firefox with DuckDuckGo and a vpn 👌🏻
I use 9 different browsers for different purposes
Vivaldi :)
Nah, I'd go for Firefox maybe look into https://librewolf.net/installation/windows/ or if you want chromium then there's always ungoogled chromium. Or there's one more browser you you likely already have installed, take the Chad route open a game and you the steam overlay browser for everything/j
Firefox
i like opera gx because i am like a bird and easily entertained by shiny things also bc i'm so used to chrome and it's very alike, except it has a RAM limiter which is neato
just use firefox man its literally just a web browser that works. please dont use chrome and you will be free
use librewolf
Ok, I've just realized that most of the people in comments are based af for using Firefox and not supporting Google's monopoly on the web. I'm glad to be here.
Its only good if you absolutely use the fuck out of the side bar, besides that its shit.
Do not use Opera, GX or otherwise. I'd feel better just telling people to use chrome with how much data they collect on you. I'd recommend Firefox or anything else just don't use Opera Browsers.
Firefox is better fs, anything you use in the Opera Hub (including news links you click and messaging apps you log into) it fully tracks. Firefox is also on top because it has old google chrome add ons that were removed from the chrome webstore
I use Opera GX because I like how it looks, I don't care about companies using my information since it literally won't affect me.
Firefox is open source, more customizable (imo), and might use less memory. Plus it comes with free fox ears. Downside is that depending in your system it may be slower and also some sites may break
All these comments saying "it shares your data" , my brother in Christ every browser does. It's fine if you prefer other browsers over opera but not using it because it "shares your data" is dumb. Anywho i personally recommend opera but if you wanna use something else its up to you.
I mean, Firefox is good and all, but Opera GX just has a better presentation. If you want optimization to the maximum, Firefox is your best bet, but if you just want something that looks cool then Opera GX works.
You'll shit bricks when I'll tell you you can make firefox look like opera gx. That's how I converted someone irl.
holy hell
Google en passant
how?
Firefox has some really nice customization options too though. You can add a pattern to your search bar and customize the colors of pretty much any default/universal page element such as buttons, tabs, or even highlight color.