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Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 week ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a privacy-centric open source browser that follows web standards and doesn’t come with any unfortunate baggage in the room? It’s time to find out.

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In the end, I looked for two candidates, one each from the Firefox and Apple/Google orbits. I tried them all, and settled on LibreWolf from the former, and Vivaldi from the latter. LibreWolf because it’s done a fine job of making Firefox without it being Firefox, and Vivaldi because its influence from the early Opera versions gave it a tiny bit of individuality missing in the others. I set up both with my usual Hackaday bookmarks, tabs, and shortcuts, changed the search engine to the EU-based Qwant. I’m ready to go, with a bit more control over how my data is shared with the world once more.

Why Vivaldi though? It's closed source, which should disqualify it from their initial statement of considering open-source browsers.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah Im not sure as well. Vivaldi didnt really impress me when I tried it out.

I put this article 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 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thats fair. Any good ones that have come out in the last month or so?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not sure exactly which part you're asking about.

For Mozilla, the best source I've found is Louis Rossmann's wiki on Mozilla's TOS changes (and his breakdown on YT if you don't want to read).

For articles about which browser to pick, idk, I don't really follow that. I use Firefox and Firefox derivatives because I believe engine diversity is of utmost importance, and I only use Chromium forks as a backup for sites that don't work properly on Firefox.