Librewolf is a pretty easy drop in replacement. Although you may want to adjust some of the privacy settings, if you're having issues with websites, they may be too strict.
Librewolf aspirations, firefox reality.
God I'm lazy.
Phone: Mostly IronFox, sometimes I use Vanadium Desktop: LibreWolf
I have been using Zen-Browser as my main desktop browser for around almost a year (I think). Initially just wanted to give it a try because it has nice vertical tabs that aren't clunky or just an extension. It also looks better (imo) than most of the other FF-forks that I have tried.
On Android I use FF since it isn't Chrome/Chromium and most importantly can turn on basically "Dev Mode" in a similar way that you enable Dev Mode in Android. This allows you to install all normal extensions that you can on desktop FF. Even if that wasn't an option, uBO is installable (unlike basically every Chromium-based option). Really really helps going to websites while on my phone or tablets not feel like a complete downgrade compared to just turning my desktop on.
There are some Chromium and FF forks for Android that do allow some extensions, just not a lot to pick from. And I don't want to use Chromium stuff since it further pushes sites to pull an IE and code sites to work only for Chrome/Chromium.
Firefox now has vertical tabs. I for one use them (though in LibreWolf instead)
Librewolf on desktop and IronFox on mobile (GrapheneOS) for daily browsing. I also use Tor Browser or Mullvad Browser on desktop for particularly sensitive browsing.
Librewolf is my daily driver. Ironfox on mobile. If I have to use a Chromium based browser, then I use Brave.
Kagi as my search engine in case you were wondering 👀
Firefox because I just installed Nix and can't figure out how to make anything else work 😂
Usually I go with a firefox fork. Waterfox previously, almost since it first came out. But I've been hearing a lot about Floorp for a while now and I think sometime soon my brain might stop screaming "you CAN'T install that! it's called FLOORP!" and let me try it. I've tried Librewolf but it's a hassle to configure so it doesn't break every website (not a criticism, I like that it does that by default, but it's a hassle)
Pine.
Using many. Firefox, waterfox, librewolf, Vivaldi, k-meleon and...errr...well....edge. On win, Linux and android.
i use safari on my phone mostly, duck duck go for things a little more private
Ungoogle Chromium on Linux and Vivaldi on Android!
Mostly vivaldi, occasionally firefox on desktop. I wish we had more options with better longevity.
LibreWolf for daily personal, Mullvad Browser most private check EFF tests coveryourtracks.com or TOR, Brave mobile tweaked.
Firefox and Librewolf.
LibreWolf is Firefox without the bullshit.
Librewolf and water Fox are the best Firefox alternatives.
Firefox.
Librewolf on Linux and Orion on iOS, fennec on android
LibreWolf on desktop, IronFox on Mobile.
I switched to Chrome about 10 years ago because Safari was buggy and lost all my tabs one time too many. Also it made it easier to move between platforms. Still using it now. The main thing I wish it had is a visual tab overview like Safari does.
@Turd_Ferg PC (Linux): Librewolf for some things (fediverse, news outlets, mail providers, etc), Waterfox for other things (especially sites/platforms where I need to write Portuguese, because Librewolf's "Resist Fingerprinting" breaks accent keys), upstream Firefox for more mainstream things (government services), as well as Lagrange for Gopher and Geminispace.
Smartphone (Android): Fennec, with native Chrome active against my will for WebViews from certain apps (governmental and banking apps, for example) that require Chrome For My Security™.
It's been a while since I ditched Chromium-based browsers, although Firefox has some Chromium things inside its code. I'm waiting for whatever browsers that could bring third-party browser engines besides Chromium and Firefox-engine (yeah, there are Pale Moon, Basilisk, Safari/Webkit, among other browsers which are neither Chromium nor Firefox-based, but I'm talking about a browser as compatible as possible with features such as WebBluetooth, WebGL, WASM and other things as they can prove useful for personally-developed projects/self-hosted services).
Super informative, thank you
til of waterfox and fennec; thanks for the reply.
Firefox on both Android and Linux
Tor Browser (daily driver) because I really hate surveillance capitalism. I have fallbacks but rarely need them. Can recc LibreWolf and Ungoogled Chromium.
Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium flatpak for anything that doesn't work in Librewolf, and Fennec on Android
Safari. It’s really good! :D
Firefox ESR with user js and some of my personal modifications, ESR because I don't have to worry about new stuff for 2 years. Another idea if you don't want to worry about new stuff in browser is using Mullvad as regular browser, all you have to do is turn of always private mode but if you don't want to mess around I'd recommend LibreWolf or Waterfox.
Zen on desktop Vanadium on mobile
On Linux, I'm using Firefox as my main browser and Vivaldi as my secondary browser.
On android, some of my devices have Firefox, some of them have Fennec F-Droid and the devices that don't have very much storage space have Via Browser. If you're wondering why I have both Firefox and F-Droid's Fennec, it's because I used to just use Fennec but then at some point F-Droid announced that Fennec was outdated and it was missing several security updates that were present in Firefox. I switched to Firefox on the devices I use browsers on more actively but I didn't see a reason to switch all of them.
Zen, I don't remember why I picked it
Things that I really like about Zen:
yeah I like these features too
Vivaldi, it has good features and isn't owned by a crazy corpo
I use zen browser. It has some quirks, but overall the best browser I have found. At least for me.
I just switched back to Brave after using Firefox for a couple years. I switched away from Brave over the Manifest V3 thing but it turns out they're preserving compatibility with V2 extensions and their built-in shields have gotten pretty good at blocking most things without even needing uBO. I had lots of little issues with Firefox that are like known-issues that have been around for years or things I haven't been able to find solutions to, so I was glad to switch back. Brave isn't perfect either, but.
The thing about braves adblock is, it ain't customizable at all. For sites that are constantly changing, with Firefox and ublock, you can somewhat debug whats wrong. With brave, you'll have to wait for an update on their end.
Huh, I didn't think about that. But I can just install uBO and disable the built-in ones if it ever becomes a problem, right? I thought I saw an option about disabling them.
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