Falkon (KDE rocks forever!) as for everything but Messenger, YouTube, WhatsApp web
Firefox or Brave as for just Messenger, YouTube, WhatsApp web
Which Web Browser do you use?
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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.
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I've also heard webkit is a tad outdated and has certain vulnerabilities which still haven't been patched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
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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.
Devoted Seamonkey user here
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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).
neb otter-browser and netsurf-gtk
Out of the 2, which is more usable?