This poll is to gather users’ preferences about the favorite browser they install right after OpenMandriva system installation.
You can see it as a suggestion for default browser to ship in the iso, or new browsers to add to om-welcome and their order (from the most used/requested to the less one), or new browsers to add to the repository, or mere statistic use.
Please make a difference between OpenSource and proprietary. This utterly matters for us.
I don’t make this as poll with options to pick, since in my opinion there are so many of them out there that I could not list everything
Please be so kind to comment providing pros and cons as you see them, and if any need to link the project homepage.
Thank you.
Postedit2025-01-19T23:00:00Z
I add a pick-one poll, looking forward to know your opinions.
What would you choose between:
- a ‘full featured’ browser like Chrome or Chromium, with Google spyware included
and
- a patched browser with Google spyware disabled like ungoogled-chromium, where it may be tricky to install extensions or themes
I use different browsers for different types of activities to segregate my data types.
Social/Default browser: Brave Browser Beta (I only use the beta version as my default rather than stable as I prefer the blue Brave icon in my taskbar , besides the beta version has never caused me any stability issues for the years that I’ve been using it).
Work/Government websites: Firefox.
Personal life planning: LibreWolf.
Extra private browser session: Tor Browser.
I also use a few other browsers like Brave Nightly if I am planning to be accessing one specific site on a few occasions over the next few weeks but I don’t want them to expose any data to other pages or to collect data from other pages.
Sometimes there are cases where you access certain pages that have compatibility issues that require you to use a small list of browsers for compatibility so in those few cases I’ll try Chromium or Firefox.
There are certain regularly used pages that are associated with one specific corporation that I have a heavy distrust for that I will assign an entire browser to as they are known to use any technique possible to get any data they can out of you and I would rather just keep them away from any of my data where possible.
Also my primary search engine in most of these browsers is Brave Search as I try to avoid any use of Google and I recall DuckDuckGo seniors previously made comments suggesting they were pro-censorship so I also avoid their services too.
librewolf was ok as well but seemed resource heavy like firefox is.
Really not fond of firefox direct due to privacy issues (mozilla isn’t privacy friendly anymore and hasn’t been in some time)
chrome/chromium don’t trust at all due to google (the be evil company) HUGE privacy issues along with google attempting to shut down privacy extentions which blocks ads and other bad stuff due to forcing manifest v3. (I know brave is chromium based but they do bake in the privacy features such as ad blocking)
Of course in the digital world there is never any truly private solution.
Just different tools for different use cases to try an obfuscate your data as much as you can.
I hear ip2 has promise, but I’m skeptical. No one should use Tor, though. It’s specifically there to entrap people and has been deanonymized on more than just compromised exit nodes.
I’d say it is always good to be sceptical of anything claiming to be good for privacy in the world of tech,
Tor may have it’s issues, but the browser doesn’t store history, bookmarks and so on, so closing the window clears out the session.
I’d argue Tor Browser is more about local privacy rather than online digital privacy.
, besides the beta version has never caused me any stability issues for the years that I’ve been using it).