desk jockeys of the world - what browser do you use?

[Raptorpat]

setting up a new work laptop, last time I did this was 2018 and curious if browser preferences/justifications have changed

[mthor]

Firefox, since 2012. The son in law who is my tech advisor told me to use it, I forget why.

[UwPp]

Chrome. 

[André Toulon]

chrome and FF for no particular reason

[rpgamer]

Mostly Firefox, but evidently it's run or owned or whatever by an AI bro now, so.. now's as good a time as any to find a new one.

Brave seems to show some promise. Heard nice things about I think Waterfox.

[katt_goddess]

Using Edge or whatever it's called.

I had Chrome once upon a time but hated it. I don't really have any specific reason other than I didn't like the feel of it. 

[SwimOdin]

Firefox, for almost 20 years.

[crackymckrackin]

17 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

setting up a new work laptop, last time I did this was 2018 and curious if browser preferences/justifications have changed

Brave on desktop.

[Top Gun]

Pale Moon. Has some issues but it's Firefox from way before it sucked. If there's something incompatible I just open Edge. 

[PhilosipherStoned]

Chrome is still the tech standard for average users. I've experimented with the Brave browser, but it does have a memory issue somewhere in it's dev that makes it a bit slower to use than just bare bones chrome. I did like that it's built in adblocker took care of all my ad blocking needs without an extension, and it has all the vpn options like most newer browser platforms.

Even the money hungry YouTube ad demons din't bug me.. It's been kind of hard for me to escape YouTube ads on chrome ever since YouTube devs started that little pushback war on adblocking. I'm using the Ublock lite extension on chrome that works atm but I have to turn it off when I browse all the money making platforms I use, and then when I turn it on sometimes it goes through hell to start blocking ads on YT again. There's been several of the free ad blocker extensions that just stopped working completely on YT since the big  ad battle started lol. 

Edited December 22 by PhilosipherStoned

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

On 12/21/2025 at 4:17 PM, PhilosipherStoned said:

Chrome is still the tech standard for average users. I've experimented with the Brave browser, but it does have a memory issue somewhere in it's dev that makes it a bit slower to use than just bare bones chrome. I did like that it's built in adblocker took care of all my ad blocking needs without an extension, and it has all the vpn options like most newer browser platforms.

Even the money hungry YouTube ad demons din't bug me.. It's been kind of hard for me to escape YouTube ads on chrome ever since YouTube devs started that little pushback war on adblocking. I'm using the Ublock lite extension on chrome that works atm but I have to turn it off when I browse all the money making platforms I use, and then when I turn it on sometimes it goes through hell to start blocking ads on YT again. There's been several of the free ad blocker extensions that just stopped working completely on YT since the big  ad battle started lol. 

I used to have AdBlock Plus and UOrigin working in tandem which blocked all youtube ads, but I started experiencing intense slow down and after a little bit of Googling, the culprit was the Adblock Plus extension. Turned it off, and the slow down is gone. Ads are all over the place now though, including youtube.

UBlock origin sucks.