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What HN commenters recommend, ranked by distinct recommenders. Under each: what people praise most and the most common caveat, or the strongest quote where there is no summary yet.
- 1.Loved for Ad blocking, Site compatibility · Caveat UI redesign
- 2.Loved for Ad blocking, Custom filters · Caveat Chrome support
- 3.Loved for Brave Search, Built-in adblock · Caveat Crypto cruft
- 4.Loved for Apple integration, Speed & battery · Caveat Web compatibility
- 5.Loved for Arc replacement, Firefox foundation · Caveat Bugs
- 6.Loved for Extensions & adblock, Non-Chromium engine · Caveat Bugs
- 7.Loved for Speed, Handy features · Caveat Memory bloat
- 8.Loved for Blocks ads well, Safari and iOS · Caveat Less configurable
- 9.Loved for Customization, Tab management · Caveat Manifest V2 loss
- 10.Loved for No Mozilla extras, Privacy defaults · Caveat Site breakage
- 11.Loved for Pairs with uBlock, Skips sponsor reads · Caveat Incomplete coverage
- 12.Loved for Daily driver, Ungoogled Chromium · Caveat Crashes
- 13.Loved for Mouse-free navigation, Productivity boost · Caveat Browser only
- 14.Loved for Overall UX, Tab organization · Caveat Discontinued
- 15.Loved for Firefox replacement, No AI features · Caveat Site compatibility
- 16.Loved for Site isolation, Replaces profiles · Caveat Native overlap
- 17.Loved for Effective blocking, Cross-platform · Caveat VPN approach
- 18.Loved for Engine independence, Standards progress · Caveat Not ready yet
- 19.Loved for Works everywhere, Cross-platform · Caveat Breaks some sites
- 20.Loved for Hides distractions, Browser support
- 21.Loved for Automatic redirects, Broad site coverage · Caveat Read-only frontends
- 22.Loved for Save for later, Single HTML file
- 23.Loved for Engine diversity, Community project · Caveat Not daily-ready
- 24.Loved for Auto cookie cleanup, Whitelisting · Caveat Maintenance doubts
- 25.Loved for Agent self-testing, Network inspection · Caveat Token heavy
- 26.Loved for Tree-style tabs, Tab organization · Caveat CSS tweaks needed
- 27.Loved for Safari ad blocking, Best on iOS · Caveat Coverage gaps
- 28.Loved for Firefox alternative, Anti-fingerprinting · Caveat Performance
- 29.Loved for Site compatibility, Speed · Caveat Bloated codebase
- 30.Loved for Site CSS overrides, Quick fixes · Caveat Requires CSS
- 31.Loved for Removes feeds, Many sites
- 32.Loved for Performance, iCloud sync · Caveat No cosmetic filtering
- 33.Loved for Lightweight, Long-time favorite · Caveat Modern site rendering
- 34.Loved for Privacy isolation, Pairs with containers · Caveat Unmaintained
- 35.Loved for uBlock Origin, Speed and efficiency · Caveat Bloat
- 36.I use this on news sites to get rid of the paywall.
- 37.For browsing, I use camoufox, it tries to hide the fact that it is an AI running a bot and seems to be fairly successful.
- 38.I have been using tree style tabs on Firefox for so long, I can't function without it.
- 39.lately I use "DeArrow" which desensationalises all the thumbnails and even titles. That helps a lot.
- 40.I moved to Zen but have subsequently moved to Glide [0] which I find to have less UI fluff and the keyboard shortcuts and scriptability are excellent.
- 41.ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux/releases) still supports MV3/uBO and is de-Googled.
- 42.I use Wipr 2 for safari on both ios and macos and I’ve had no problems with it
- 43.I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues.
- 44.I use Noir extension on my iphone/ipad, does it automatically when iOS/iPadOS goes into night/dark mode
- 45.the chrome network tab really did everything I need in terms of inspecting requests / responses.
- 46.
- 47.I use it with claude code, codex and like it quite a lot.
- 48.I use the Redirector browser add-on to automatically take me from /shorts/{videoid} to /watch?v=$1.
- 49.I use Auto Tab Discard so that most of the tabs are "hibernated" and don't consume so many resources.
- 50.I use "I still don't care about cookies"; it works well
- 51.This extension is called "OneTab" (I have no interest in promoting it, that's just what I use). Works well for me.
- 52.I used the [AI company product] and the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) to completely rewrite all the scripts
- 53.Gecko, WebKit and—hopefully—Ladybird are the true alternatives.
- 54.I enjoy the this extension that redirects search results from Fandom and other such terrible hosts to their higher quality indie alternatives.
- 55.I just started using Brave Origin after trying to switch to Safari for a while.
- 56.DuckDuckGo is the browser I use most all the time.
- 57.this is really, really cool and is exactly my niche
- 58.I use Tor (with no scripts addon) for casual browsing, closing it down regularly to clear it.
- 59.I used this to figure out a Cloudflare setting by navigating their dashboard for me, it worked well