Computer Gurus: New Browser?

[GA Russell]

Has anyone come upon a relatively new browser he likes?

[tranemonk]

It's not new but I constantly come back to and use Firefox. There's just so much customization and control for me. Brave is not new but I'd say that's my second choice. Even though I'm on a Mac I hate Safari. Opera is way too cluttered.

[clifford_thornton]

Jury’s out on Duck Duck Go — limits the amount of trackers, but can also slow down sites and some older architecture might not run/display properly.

not really a fan of Safari and Google is just advertiser central.

[felser]

1 hour ago, tranemonk said:

It's not new but I constantly come back to and use Firefox. There's just so much customization and control for me. Brave is not new but I'd say that's my second choice. Even though I'm on a Mac I hate Safari. Opera is way too cluttered.

I'm on Windows 11, and also use Firefox for my browsing.  I do use Duck Duck Go as my search engine at this point -  not totally sold on it, but I no longer trust Google.

[mjzee]

I'm on a Mac, and mostly use Safari.  Sometimes Firefox, occasionally Brave, rarely Tusk or DuckDuckGo (though there's nothing wrong with either of them).

[JSngry]

I still use Firefox just because I've yet to have a reason not to.

[Joe]

Vivaldi is pretty good. Maybe too many bells and whistles. https://vivaldi.com

I also like Brave, https://brave.com. IIRC, its built on Chromium, meaning Google Chrome extension will work in a Brave environment.

[Dave Garrett]

I like Supermium for two reasons - it runs on older versions of Windows (all the way back to XP) as well as newer versions, and although it's Chromium-based, unlike Chrome itself the Supermium developers have not removed support for Manifest V2 and have no intention of doing so. Manifest controls how browser extensions function, and Manifest V3, the current version that was rolled out last year, restricted permission grants much more than V2, rendering adblockers far less effective (or essentially non-functional in some cases). I switched to Supermium months ago from Chrome and haven't looked back - the migration process was dead simple, just like upgrading to a new version of Chrome. 

Supermium

I also use FIrefox, but recently switched my default search engine to Duck Duck Go when Google started requiring Javascript to be enabled in order to perform searches. I have Javascript blocked by default on my Firefox install and enable it only on an as-needed basis (NoScript is my preferred extension for that use case), but I didn't care to do so just to be able to search with Google, given how aggressive they've gotten with force-feeding users ads. 

[GA Russell]

Thanks, guys!  You've given me a number of ideas.

[clifford_thornton]

A couple of years ago I was guest lecturing a music history class at a local college and they were using a browser that automatically killed ads on YouTube. Can’t remember what it was — certainly not Google, Safari, DDG, or Firefox. Any ideas?

[mjzee]

6 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

A couple of years ago I was guest lecturing a music history class at a local college and they were using a browser that automatically killed ads on YouTube. Can’t remember what it was — certainly not Google, Safari, DDG, or Firefox. Any ideas?

Maybe they simply paid for YouTube?

[rostasi]

I think it might've been Brave - mentioned earlier.

[clifford_thornton]

thanks. Giving it a whirl.

yup. this works. Thanks!