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Internet Explorer is pretty much dead, replaced by Edge. Edge is better than the early days when Explorer was a joke but I still prefer Firefox by a mile
Inb4 a crypto bro recommends Brave
Don’t feed the troll.
Still the best IMO, and how is it not for the average person? It's just as fully featured and easy to use as anything else.
It's my daily driver. There are a few sites that don't work well with it, but those are very rare in my experience. Latest one to break on me was State Farm. And so what. Fuck State Farm.
There are only two browsers now, chrome(ium) and firefox. Everything else is one of those with some changes.
Firefox based is usually the way to go if you want to avoid anything Google related.
Otherwise, they're on par with each other, imo.
Isn't Safari WebKit which is different again? Or is that a chromium base as well? (I realise you can't exactly choose Safari unless you have Apple stuff, but I thought it was its own thing).
Safari is different from Chromium and Firefox but not widely available and pretty similar to Chromium in being webkit-based.
Some Linux packages have WebKit as a dependency and that often has something called MiniBrowser installed as, well, precisely what it says it is. Not sure if it's available on Windows, but it's OK in a pinch.
There are a few other lesser known browsers, not in the main families, that are currently in development too.
Originally there was KHTML, developed by KDE for the konquerer browser. This was then forked by Apple to WebKit which is used by safari and gnome web. Google then forked WebKit to blink, the browser engine chromium uses.
Yes, but just plain firefox
As opposed to what? Chocolate Firefox?
i have a firefox extension called stylebot that lets you select the colors of anything on any webpage. dont like the scheme of a page you visit often? make it your own. my youtube background is now a lovely chocolate brown. my pandora is all grey with a hint of teal.
I use darkreader for the same reason. My eyes like it.
knockoffs like Brave
That is a chrome derivative, not Firefox
Nah, Floorp is Firefox with the features Firefox is missing.
Doesn’t floorp have some weird licensing thing going on?
Firefox has been my preferred browser since 0.9. But whenever I help set up a relative's or friend's computer, I always install chrome as the default browser. With the lack of adherence to web standards and most sites only testing against chrome, it just makes chrome/chromium the obvious choice if you don't want to deal with the occasional breakage.
I've used Firefox daily for probably a decade now and I can think of a single website it's ever not worked properly with that entire time.
That's great and all but if your experience was typical, Mozilla wouldn't have created webcompat.com and it wouldn't be as busy as it appears to be. We can probably work around such issues but I wouldn't expect non-techies to do the same.
Eh, I'm gonna be honest, I just don't see it as an issue that justifies not putting it on other people's computers, as the original comment was about.
And I just tried to recreate a few issues from that site, and personally can't. Sure, I know, anecdotal, but I just strongly feel like it's a flimsy reason to not recommend it to a friend or relative.
Thanks legends
IE is the best!
Unrelated, would you mind taking a few facebook quizzes and how's your bank accound doing?
What about cars? Does Lemmy like cars now?
What is cars?