Another "Which PC browser should I go with?" post

Self

[CatOwner]

Sorry about the rant. When you've been using the same product for over a decade, moving off to something else starts to become paralysis by analysis.

[upchuck]

As a former Firefox and Opera and Chrome user, I like Slimjet. Compact, fast, based on Chrome. It's become my fav. Even has a built-in ad blocker.

[NewJerseyJoe]

For all of these same reasons, I just switched to Waterfox. Based on the same open source as FF. Practically identical — and the Legacy addons work with it. It’s faster, too.

[ClearCase_guy]

I suggest Mosaic. They’re up to version 3.0 now and it’s awesome!

[Vigilanteman]

I like both Opera and Safari for these reasons:

1. Bare bones basic browsing.
   
2. They don't send you tracking cookies or try to direct you to websites which will put money in their pockets.
   
3. Market share is so tiny that most hackers ignore them.
   
4. Ditto for distributors of adware, malware and the like.
   
5. There is little they can't do that the big players like IE, Chrome and Firefox can.

[DennisR]

Microsoft Edge is the worst browser in the universe, so no need to even try it.

[UB355]

Read up on firefox upcoming version 57 it is a complete redesign will make all current add-ons incompatible.

[catnipman]

just stick with an older version so FF, like v 49 for example and turn off all updates. btw, a really useful FF extension is checkcompatibility that lets you add back disabling compatibility checking so you can use old extensions.

[Bullish]

Just use AOL they have their own browser...

Just kidding, Got ya’.

I’ve been happy with Firefox for a long time now. It’s what I use.

[markomalley]

You could try Mosaic. I hear that was a good browser. Or, alternatively, there's Netscape.

Seriously, take a look at the reviews others do: PC Magazine, ZDNet, Tech Advisor, The High Tech Society, etc.

Or you could feature compare via Wikipedia.

[Zeneta]

Nice.

[SoFloFreeper]

Try Brave.

[CatOwner]

just stick with an older version so FF, like v 49 for example and turn off all updates. btw, a really useful FF extension is checkcompatibility that lets you add back disabling compatibility checking so you can use old extensions.

Isn't there a concern about the lack of security fixes sticking with an older version of a browser that isn't updated? Even if that wasn't a problem, I don't know how far back I would want to go. I can't remember when I started having memory leaks/usage issues with Firefox.

[CatOwner]

Nice table in the Wikipedia article. Thanks.

[nevadapatriot]

>just stick with an older version so FF, like v 49 for >example and turn off all updates. btw, a really useful >FF extension is checkcompatibility that lets you add >back disabling compatibility checking so you can use old >extensions.

>Isn’t there a concern about the lack of security fixes >sticking with an older version of a browser that isn’t >updated? Even if that wasn’t a problem, I don’t know how >far back I would want to go. I can’t remember when I >started having memory leaks/usage issues with Firefox.

Just download (while you still can) an extended support release like firefox-52.3.0esr to have on hand and install after you give up and remove the worthless latest upgrade.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.3.0/releasenotes/

[ducttape45]

Try Palemoon. It’s a Mozilla browser but it’s not Firefox.

[Chode]

IceDragon FF clone... loaded it up after the last thread, works with almost all the old addons

[ptsal]

Ookmark browser wars

[Pollard]

palemoon browser is based on a slightly older version of ff but it’s up to date otherwise and it’s speedy. It’s what I’m using now, ever since mozilla announces they’d be fighting ‘fake news’. Somehow, I don’t think they’re talking about the same fake news that the President talks about.

“Pale Moon supports NPAPI plug-ins. Unlike Firefox, we will not be deprecating or removing support for these kinds of plug-ins.”

“The User Interface in Pale Moon is stable, based on the Firefox 4-28 browser era UI and will not be changed in any major way as far as how the UI operates. “Australis”, the UI rework done by Mozilla in Firefox 29 and later which completely removed many customization features, will not be adopted. This also means full and ongoing support for total restyling (complete themes)”

https://www.palemoon.org/roadmap.shtml

[sauropod]

Been moving down the same path. Gonna check out brave.