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Post #1081631

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pittrek
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What is your preferred browser? For Mobile; for Desktop? Why?
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Date created
6-Jun-2017, 3:20 AM

Well I’m a web user since the old days when I used lynx. Then I upgraded to links. When Windows started to be usable and not just a crappy toy which crashed every 5 minutes, I started to use a DOS+Win3.1 combination and Mosaic, when Mosaic ended I switched to its spiritual successor Netscape Navigator, when Netscape became a giant bloated slow monstrosity I switched to its lightweight “brother” Mozilla. When the Mozilla project split to different projects I stayed with Phoenix, later renamed to Firefox.

I am still using most of the time Firefox on both Windows and Kubuntu, but it pisses me off more and more with every new release. They removed the status bar, they removed most of the configurations (which was my favourite thing about the browser) from the settings (now they’re available just through the about:config URL), removed Javascript prohibition and the main menu, all of those things I absolutely hate, but I still hate Firefox less than other browsers I tried. But now the last drop - on most sites with an https problem the browser simply doesn’t let me on the site (previously it allowed me to set an ssl security exception), which is absolutely unacceptable to me and I’m seriously thinking about abandoning FF for good. However what should I chose? Is Opera still a thing? I hate everything about MSIE, I don’t like Edge, I don’t like Chrome (it’s a good browser but I can’t configure basically anything which is a deal breaker for me), so what else is there?

Mobile - as an android phone user I use the built it browser, which is based on Chrome. I never had a reason to search for anything else but I don’t use my phone for web browsing that much, basically 99.9% of my web browsing is a search when the next bus is coming etc.