what web browsers do you use?
Even if mozilla is a parody of itself and firefox is a goofy project, I still use basically only firefox (or firefox-based) browsers;
on android is the only decent browser capable of running ublock origin, and on linux it is better integrated and light to build than chromium.
Also tor is the only option for some usages (like see your tx in mempool...) and it is firefox in the end.
Whats your take?
#asknostr
I use #Firefox on #manjaro #kiwi on android and #waterfox on Windows. I tend to use Firefox focus on #ios
I mostly use Brave, occasionally Mull.
I like brave as browser (mostly, much shitcoins and much bloat...) but I don't like the idea of solving dependency from google (chromium) with another company that packages the browser for you. To much possibility to be rugged as user; theres to little an individual can do to audit whats going on or fork it if necessary.
Mozilla is even worse in some ways, the only good thing of firefox is that is fully open source (from the engine to the telemetry...) and is easier to hack with and build your own version; as a user, I like to have this option in case companies want to do something harmful and a fork of the codebase is required.
On gentoo on a machine that build firefox in ~4 hours, chromium builds in at least ~15 hours, even a lot more in some configurations.
The resources neccessary to develop chromium are so much that to fork it (rebasing upstream on every release) it is necessary "another google" (like what microsoft and brave do).
Some "distributions" of "minimal-patched-chromium" exists, but they often are discontinued and they always feel they would need 100 more people working on just to keep up with most basic features and bugfix.
But chromium in the end seems "better"; more secure, more fast, more good than firefox.
I dont know, I think we really need better options for web browsing, maybe something integrated with nostr, bitcoin and with a "freedom tech" approach.
Firefox-esr with custom settings, but on mobile I like epiphany more.
epiphany on mobile? Are you on a "linux phone"???
I use one with graphene and a Linux phone.
I managed to install ubports on my old device, but basically today use only one with graphene... I think we need linux phones to happen, android is a giant pile of things where you can have little control.
Still, today, graphene os is by far the best we can have on mobile...
I prefer mobian and pmOS. Graphene is still aosp, I see it as a temporary solution.
agree with you, ubports was the only available for my phone but I dream to daily drive a phone with mainline kernel and pmOS. I actually have a nokia n900 like this, but it have strong hardware limitations, it takes like 5 seconds just to run neofetch....
