HACKER Q&A
📣 Pieczasz

What browser do you use?


At work, I use Chrome mainly because I work on an observability and analytics product, so it makes sense to use the browser that sends everything, everywhere by default.

Outside of work, though, I use Zen and have also been thinking about switching to Mullvad. Privacy-focused browsers, or even simple extensions like Mullvad, Zen, Brave, LibreWolf, or Firefox with uBlock Origin are easy to install and use these days, so I'm wondering why so many people still stick with Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

What keeps you using your current browser?

  👤 eliagatti01 Accepted Answer ✓
I currently use firefox, works well for me.
👤 JohnFen
I came back to Firefox after a stint of trying others out. I returned because, despite all of its downsides, it's still the least bad option of the ones I've tried.

But (despite that I used to be hardcore Firefox user and advocate) I'm not married to any particular browser. It's so easy to change browsers that I'll do so the instant one that better meets my needs comes around.

👤 moizrocky1
I've been using Dia, and this got better after the recent inclusion of Spaces similar to Arc.

But, I'm suffering from RAM issues. Got 24GM RAM M5 (Non-Pro) MacBook Pro and about 10-15 tabs open, I'm consuming 19GB RAM with 5-9GB RAM in swap.

I mean... now I'm wondering if I should've got higher RAM.

Since I came from Air M1 8GB RAM, I thought 24GB is plenty enough but seems like not.

👤 stalfosknight
Safari because of the seamless integration with Apple platform features and because it is the most energy efficient browser while still being the most performant. It’s the best of all worlds.
👤 KomoD
Depends on what device I am using. Currently Thorium/Chrome, sometimes Firefox.

I'm currently moving away from Chrome though, as I can no longer use any MV2 extensions because all the workarounds stopped working.

👤 runjake
Brave with all the cruft turned off except Brave Shield. Chrome isn't bad either.

I'd love to be able to tolerate Safari, but it's just not a good day-to-day desktop browser.

👤 mrdependable
I just started using Brave Origin after trying to switch to Safari for a while. Safari felt aggravating to use after having used Chrome for so long, but Brave has been great.
👤 leosanchez
Firefox with ublock origin plugin on desktop as well as android.
👤 Singular_Child
Been using firefox recently, least laggy out of that chrome and (eww) edge.