time to kick chrome to the curb, but what to use instead?

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#320411 11-Aug-2025 14:30

I have lost patience with chrome and ublock not playing together anymore.

What browser is recommended nowadays?

Must have ad blocking and bitwarden extension support.

Has Edge got the edge?

If Firefox still foxy?

Is there anything new out there shining a light I haven't seen?

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#3401686 11-Aug-2025 14:32

Vivaldi fan here. Good ad-blocking, Bitwarden support.

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#3401689 11-Aug-2025 14:35

Another vote for Vivaldi. Cross-platform sync if you want to, Chrome extension support, nice mouse gestures, loads of options relating to privacy, tabs, layout, theming etc. to make it work just how you like.

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#3401692 11-Aug-2025 14:39

Use Brave browser which has "Brave Shields" and I was using Bitwarden which worked fine, but have now moved to NordPass.

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#3401696 11-Aug-2025 15:08

I still use Firefox, mainly for ideological reasons: the last thing we need is another browser monoculture. I remember the IE6 days.

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#3401795 11-Aug-2025 15:55

No love for the compatible ublock origin lite?

Seems to keep doing it's thing

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#3401798 11-Aug-2025 16:04

Brave works well for me. I also have other browsers for other things but mainy just use Brave.

p.s.: I note no-one mentions Edge. It was forced on me with a truckload of other crap when I installed Windows, but as far as I could see, it just seemed to be an advertising vehicle. I disabled it as soon as I got Brave installed and set up.

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#3401815 11-Aug-2025 16:57

Firefox.

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#3401819 11-Aug-2025 17:23

Brave, on desktop and Android. However, I'm finding the Android experience disappointing lately. I need to regularly kill the app to get it to displaying the the correct groups icons, or even correctly show a full window instead of the group I was last using. I've also had it loose all of my open tabs for about a week, before it randomly opened them all again.

I'll likely switch back to Firefox again.