Best Internet Browser 2022-2023

What's your favorite browser and why?

What are your favorite extensions? Please list them with a brief description of what they do (if possible to make it easier for others)

 

Still Brave. Top privacy and excellent performance.

 

+1 on Brave. Still the most appropriate browser and the most interesting alternative can be described as "a Firefox fork with XUL/Classic Addons Archive addon compatibility" and one example of such is Waterfox.

Another benefit that just appeared is the ability to use offline/sideloaded extensions without any warnings or nag screens. Microsoft Edge started to show warnings/nagging when offline extensions are used, claiming "security risks" when the contrary is true: The most common extension breach is when a Chrome Web Store distributed ditto change ownership, a malware and/or telemetry infused version is uploaded and automatically updated. Nano Adblocker/Defender and The Great Suspender are two good examples.

I have started with the practice of having one Chromium browser as an "extensions downloader" and then manually copy the extensions to a dedicated folder and from there load them into Brave. It is a way of obtaining any extension and use it without the issues caused by ownership changes et al.

My main extensions are uBlock Origin, Bitdefender Trafficlight, Privacy Badger, I don't care about cookies, NoScript, Skip Redirect, Tabs Aside, Tab Groups Extension, HTTPS Everywhere and The Great Suspender 7.1.6 (the last version before change of ownership). All of them sideloaded.

Edit: I use NextDNS for DNS level filtering as a supplement to the browser level adblocking.

 

NoScript here but not for those that do a lot of surfing or banking unless you don't mind configurating it when you go to those sites

 

The best solution is to use a dedicated browser for banking and shopping where all data is deleted on exit. I always switch over to unGoogled Chromium when I do things where I know that NoScript can be a bit "inconvenient".

 

Om my Macs and notebook, I use Opera. On my main desktop I use Firefox, only because have a WQHD monitor I use in portrait mode. The Firefox sidebar can get more narrow than Opera, which is advantageous when your screen is only 1440 pixels wide.

 

Ungoogled Chromium.

 

Right now Librewolf, with ublock, Privacy Badger (security & tracking) and Kee (Keepass integration) extensions

So I'm in the process of doing a clean install - 2021 version of LTSC sucks IMO, back to 1809.
Is having the dummy browser the best way to get extensions for sideloading? I am eventually going to get around to installing Brave and seeing how some of the extensions you use are also the ones I'll use, I figured I'd try the sideloading thing. I just wasn't sure where to grab the extensions from

 

Having a dummy browser is a good idea. Install something like Chromium, download the extensions using that one and then copy them to a dedicated folder and sideload them from there into Brave. I haven't researched if there is a way to download extensions from Chrome Web Store without "adding" them to the browser.

Some extensions can be downloaded from Github but using the dummy browser is the easiest method.

 

Just occurred to me I also have Opera portable (for it's VPN) kicking around on my system. IIRC there is/was an extension to use Chrome store extensions rather than Opera store. Figure that'd work for dummy browser purposes - saves the hassle of installing a browser I'd never use?

 

I can't speak for Opera/Chromium but one way is to download a portable Chromium build from Wolyss and use it.