Which Web Browser do you use?

pfr

Tell me which web browser you use and why.

I am a fan of webkit browsers like vimb, luakit etc due to them being minimal and I rate vim key bindings highly.
However, I've just done a fresh install (NetBSD) and am wanting to keep my system light but I find myself weighing up usability with light weight'ness.

I am interested in Midori and thanks to @pin for posting THIS.

The other attractive thing about the aforementioned browsers, vimb, luakit, uzbl, dwb.. (some of which I know are no longer being actively developed) is their minimal interface that saves on screen real estate. However I am also aware that I can create custom .css files for firefox and install vim keybinding extensions etc to mimic this somewhat.

I've also heard webkit is a tad outdated and has certain vulnerabilities which still haven't been patched.. but I'm no expert on that stuff. I know Firefox offers good security and I currently have firefox68 installed but I find it does bog my old x230 down a little.

I'm keen to hear what other people use on low resource/minimal installs.

Sam

pfr Chromium on OpenBSD, Firefox on NetBSD. On macOS I have both installed, but the first choice is Firefox... well, that until I'll migrate everything to Chrome. But I'm still being too lazy to do that.

hd_scania

Falkon (KDE rocks forever!) as for everything but Messenger, YouTube, WhatsApp web
Firefox or Brave as for just Messenger, YouTube, WhatsApp web☺️

hd_scania Falkon uses qtwebengine 🥶

MWS

I use Firefox because it offers the ability to sync a complete history, bookmarks, tabs across desktop and mobile. No other *nix browser has this feature save for spyware Chrome and Chromium.

I wish the performance were better though. It sucks on lower-end now. Have to turn off JS on one of my laptops (only 4GB of memory) because it's so bloated. Firefox takes up about 8 times as much memory for pages compared to Brave or other Blink-based browsers.

nia

I've also heard webkit is a tad outdated and has certain vulnerabilities which still haven't been patched

That's the historical situation, they had problems stabilizing. webkit-gtk in pkgsrc is quite well maintained.

qt5-qtwebkit is a different story, unfortunately. Upstream decided to discontinue it in favour of webengine, based on non-portable chrome engine, etc etc. Recently picked up because a few companies were still relying on it, but there's only so much that can be done.

I typically try to get updates out for firefox68 within a day 😉

20-100

I use Firefox for everything (including web development) unless some application requires Chromium (only Microsoft's: Skype, Teams) and I'm required to use that application.

Firefox provides a good user experience on all web sites and applications and I need its developer tools, so a low end browser with limited features wouldn't do.

I don't use Chromium unless required to do so because I find its user interface choices confusing and not very convenient. Moreover, I find it a bit too inquisitive.

Furthermore, only Firefox and Chromium allow a normal use of web-based videoconferencing solutions (e.g. sound does not work on Safari and the previous generation of Edge). I privilege the use of these solutions over those requiring the installation of bloatware on my machine - which anyway is never provided for any BSD OS.

Simply stated, without Firefox, I would be unemployed.

Firefox. Can't stand chromium or any of its hundreds of forks.
I do wish there were more options. On the other hand I've been using Firefox since it was called Netscape.
At work I'm stuck with Chrome, so I carry with me my laptop just to avoid using Chrome.

Jay

Firefox 🦊

JuvenalUrbino

Devoted Seamonkey user here 😛

neb

Still looking, but for now otter-browser and netsurf-gtk on OpenBSD.
Firefox on all other devices (if Windows or Linux) plus many other lightweight ones on Android.

I'd like to try some webkit ones when time.

Oh, I also use elinks for text-browsing and really wanna learn to operate edbrowse since I use the standard editor preferably - and it's supposed to be exceptional for scripting (it includes js).

pfr

neb otter-browser and netsurf-gtk

Out of the 2, which is more usable?

doug213

pfr otter is a full browser, surely it is more usable

doug213 Add to that,...
If you build qt5-qtmultimedia with PKG_OPTIONS.qt5-qtmultimedia+= -pulseaudio you'll eventually have otter-browser without pulseaudio, consolekit and avahi 😉