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Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday
Submitted 3 weeks ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/which-browser-should-i-use-in-2025/
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wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The only “issue” I have with libre is its essentially a pull pull of Firefox nightly with some rust patches on top. Its reliant on Firefox, so its not really a “new” browser per-say.
That being said, I use it everyday :) Its an excellent project.
ckai@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hard to fault them for that though. It’s damn near impossible to build a fully or even mostly functioning browser for the modern internet without a huge team of devs unless you build it on top of chromium or Firefox, and I’d rather the latter
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Per se is a Latin phrase meaning “in itself”. To see if you’re using it properly, replace per se in your sentence with “in itself” and see if it still makes sense.
vodkasolution@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Extremely slow on my PCs, I switched to Zen (same product, different recipe)
DepressedMan@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Its great, but needs some tweaks, bofere use for “normal” people.
Don’t remember exactly, but I enabled webGl and checked /unchecked others.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Vivaldi and Librewolf are good recommends. So good call by the author.
I wish I could completely ditch Blink based browsers for Gecko ones, just because I dislike how dominant Blink is thanks to Chrome. But some sites don’t render correctly on Gecko. So a fallback is needed.
Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
We vote with our browser. And you are voting Chromium. It’s ok, but you could do something about it.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m really not. I use Firefox 99.5% of the time (I need to switch to Librewolf). But there are some rare occasions - usually shitty old billing websites - where Gecko simply does not work due to said shitty old website. Not paying those bills is an impractical solution. Having a fallback for those rare occasions isn’t unreasonable.
abrahambelch@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I never came across a single page that didn’t render correctly with Gecko - do you have an example?
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah. Most recently it was a shitty site that looked like it had been built in 2000 and I had to use to pay an EMS bill: services.webillems.com
Tried several times on Firefox and it wouldn’t let me proceed with the payment. It kind of acted like it had. But when I called them to confirm they said it never went through. Tried multiple times with the same results. So I then tried on Chrome and it went through first time.
There’s have been others too. But like I said before, it’s rare. But annoying.
It’s down to these sites using stale, poorly-written legacy code and/or never being upgraded.
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s wrong with Vivaldi?
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Some people are uncomfortable with it being closed-source. It’s more of a philosophical objection than a criticism of the browser’s functionality.
BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you dont require open-source in your decision, Vivaldi is great. Its what i use most. It has a ton of granular features that i appreciate, but can be a bit too much for folks that want a more minimal experience.
DepressedMan@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I’m using librewolf now, after Mozilla actions.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To me the killer feature is the ability to send my tabs to any device I have. Without it it’s impossible for me to ditch Firefox, I rely too much on this feature.
garretble@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wonder if Waterfox allows this. It’s MOSTLY Firefox but without going down the AI trash route.
bobslaede@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
It does
viking@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Fennec, you can log in with your Mozilla sync account and access them from any other sync-enabled browser in their ecosystem.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
While I use it, I can live without it, especially since it only seems to work 2/3 of the time between my desktop and my iPhone.
There’s probably alternatives to this, such as doing a Note to Self on Signal or similar apps.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Been with Vivaldi even when it was uncool to be with Vivaldi. The recent incorporation of Proton felt really dirty / sketchy ad pushing. I hope Librewolf takes off, I’m guessing that’s where I will head when Vivaldi completely jumps the shark.
garretble@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve dumped FF for Zen and Waterfox.
Zen’s only downside is that it can’t play some DRM media like some sports websites.
bobslaede@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Maybe yt-dlp works with those sites. Then you can use mpv to play those media.
dihutenosa@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
mpvcan play youtube URLs on commandline.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
librewolf/ff nightly
but i miss netscape and pre version 40 firefox
viking@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Yeah old Firefox was the best. With a bookmark menu on the left where I could scroll forever and see it at a glance.
Those top bars are awful shit, and I cannot fathom how anybody uses them.
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s because I have 500 open tabs and like 6 bookmarks
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I have like 5 different Firefox forks depending on how much memory usage I can afford to spare at the time I need to look something up
Kualdir@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I’ve switched to Floorp which feels like a more modern Firefox/LibreWolf to me
vodkasolution@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
I did the same, then switched again to Zen, same reasons
Kualdir@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Zen felt way too apple to me
klu9@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Used to use Floorp, then Zen, now on Firedragon, a mod of Floorp with many features from Librewolf.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I like Zen.
Hafty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m really enjoying Orion on iPhone and Mac
Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I was pretty happy with Zen until updates started to being in some bugs and lag. It takes up the most resources to start, the URL bar peeks out a majority of the time in compact mode, If you prefer new tabs and are in compact mode, the side tabs don’t hide and cover a large part of your bookmarks bar while on a new tab page and it feels messy.
I went back to Floorp for a bit, but inevitably ended up back on Qutebrowser. The only downside to Qute is half the greasemonkey scripts to bypass YouTube ads don’t work and the python-adblock plus Brave adblock don’t block first party ads.
You can get around the first problem by adding a shortcut to bring up weblinks that open in MPV, but I haven’t found a solution to the second problem yet.
Morganza@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Tried shifting on so many browsers but returned back to Edge. The tab management on edge is amazing, I’m still waiting for a browser with tab system like them
RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I haven’t used Edge in a while, but are you talking about having work spaces to organize groups of tabs?
Did you look at Zen, the Firefox derivative that cloned the Arc UI?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Why Vivaldi though? It’s closed source, which should disqualify it from their initial statement of considering open-source browsers.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah Im not sure as well. I put this aricle up since we still have a lot of people thinking about different browsers as of 2025. Its interesting to see how people use the internet.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oh don’t get me wrong, I think this is absolutely an appropriate article for this community, I just think the article is a bit… lacking. There’s also the FUD about Mozilla, which is a bit more complex of a topic than they lead on, so kind of shoddy journalism IMO.