• Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    … Looks like it’s time to switch browsers again. Anyone got any suggestions? Preferably a Chromium-based privacy-focused browser without any crypto-related bells and whistles. And it has to be able to sync between Android and desktop.

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      2 years ago

      Just use Firefox? Available on desktop and Android.

      It even has adblock extensions on Android!

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        2 years ago

        I occasionally use Brave when I need to cast something to my shield. Is this possible with firefox?

        Most of the time I use Firefox

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        2 years ago

        Mainly to make it easier to import my user data (including passwords and such) and extension data.

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            2 years ago

            Including passwords? Because it’d be a pain to have to keep Brave around just because it’s where I stored my passwords. And the last time I switched browsers (from Chrome to Brave years ago), there was an issue where all my imported passwords were blank. The solution was to export/ import them using the tool in Chromium’s password settings page, which I assume Firefox doesn’t have.

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              2 years ago

              I’d recommend just storing passwords separately from your browser. Bitwarden is such an awesome tool and the free version takes care of everything most people would need. You can even self-host it!

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          2 years ago

          If you are looking for the most absolute comfort-zone, firefox is not ideal, but it can import bookmarks, passwords and history from any browser. to sync, just create a firefox account and log into it on each device.

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      2 years ago

      Xbrowsersync extension will make it easy to sync bookmarks across multiple browsers on multiple platforms. It’s open source and you can self host it if you want. This for me makes it easy to combine Firefox with brave and similar. Only Vivaldi doesn’t support it.

      Hope this makes your browser switching easier and cross platform choices simpler.