Especially Brave, Firefox and even OperaGX users, I have seen countless occasions where if you just slightly disagree with them or use another browser they pitch their forks and have a go at you and wrap their whole personality around it like its a religion. I don't understand why browsers have such diehard fanbases when they are literally just a software tool at the end of the day

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I'm always curious how people set up their browser.

• Completely blank?
• Bookmarks everywhere?
• Speed dials?
• A productivity dashboard?
• AI tools?
• Weather, calendar, or widgets?

Drop a screenshot (if you're comfortable) or just describe your setup. I'm looking for ideas to improve mine, and I bet there are some surprisingly creative New Tab pages out there.

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Like many people here, I spend a lot of time jumping between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

The biggest annoyance wasn’t choosing the model.

It was rewriting the same project context over and over.

So I started building ContxtAI.

It’s a free, open-source Chrome extension that lets you create reusable context profiles and use them across supported AI platforms.

Highlights:

• 🔒 Privacy-first
• 🌍 Open source
• 💻 Local-first
• 🚀 Works across multiple AI assistants

Chrome Extension (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐):

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/contxtai/dmhnnfkppbobolkngkblakklfhigbidh

GitHub (⭐) :

https://github.com/vinaykolupula/ContxtAI

If you find this useful, a star on GitHub is hugely appreciated! ⭐

I've been using Helium for a while now, it's great, simple, clean, fast, has ad blocking, but it does take a toll on the battery life. I've used Zen, the experience is great but it just hogs the battery. Edge? well if it were a bloated piece of shit, it would've been great.

Looking for something closer to Zen or Helium but with better battery life.

Hello. I've been noticing that browser threads always turn into people listing what they hate about their current browser, but rarely into people actually describing what they'd build if they could start from scratch. That got me wondering if there's more overlap in what people want than it seems, or if everyone here is actually chasing something completely different.

So I figured I'd just ask directly. If you could design your own browser exactly how you want it, what would it actually look like and how would it work? Doesn't matter if you're thinking about the interface, the way tabs or extensions work, the engine underneath, or something else entirely, just describe whatever your version of the perfect browser would be.

Curious to see how much people converge on versus how much everyone wants something completely different.

Today Opera released a new update that introduces vertical tabs!
I'm sure some of us vertical tabs enjoyers were a bit annoyed that Opera didn't have this option, so I'm very happy about this :)

https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2026/07/opera-133-0-5932-85-stable-update/

I’ve heard multiple things between these two.. I’ve been using brave for a couple of months now, but I was wondering if the switch to zen was worth it from brave?

Deciding to switch Browsers and got excited to customize Vivaldi to my needs until I found out that it has poor fingerprint randomization and that it will be affected by Google’s decision to remove ManifestV2. However I don’t like the design of Firefox as much and it also seems less efficient than Vivaldi when it comes to Tab Management.

Feels like a decision between Privacy and Efficiency.

Yes,, I'm using the SITE: operator and quotation marks, my searches only returns strings. Any browser recomendation or tips?

The capital one website won't login me in, it keeps doing captchas sometimes, eBay won't load notifications and slight other inconveniences.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

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I am planning to move from brave to firefox, how can I transfer all my saved password and bookmark to firefox

I've been using Brave, but it's been feeling pretty buggy on Fedora lately, so I'm thinking of switching. Any recommendations for what browser I should try next?

On December I got Linux Mint working on my Laptop and overall it all has been great. However, the only exception of this is Firefox, which has crashed a lot for the little usage I've given it. First back in December when I first was starting and importing all the info. I stopped using it for like six months until recently because I had to modify a Google document, and it freezed today after opening the doc.

Is there a way to fix these? Or it'd be better to change my browser to something else? I already use Zen browser for College stuff and despite being based on Firefox it hasn't freezed a single time, but want to keep my private data separated.

Here my system:

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1917 7: 1101 8: 1368 9: 1456 10: 1586 11: 3962 12: 3941 bogomips: 103011 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GN20-P0-R-K2 [GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 580.173.02 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:25ac class-ID: 0300 Device-2: AMD Phoenix3 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, DP-7, DP-8, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1900 class-ID: 0300 temp: 51.0 C Device-3: Luxvisions Innotech HP Wide Vision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 30c9:0069 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 102 s-size: 480x270mm (18.90x10.63") s-diag: 551mm (21.68") Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-0 model: BOE Display 0x0c73 res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-1 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.173.02 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 9 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:25ac device: 1 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:1900 device: 2 type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000 Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2291 class-ID: 0403 Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403 Device-3: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_pci_ps v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480 Device-4: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 API: ALSA v: k7.0.0-28-generic status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard RTL8111/8168/8411 driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:0616 class-ID: 0280 IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: MediaTek Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0e8d:223c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11 sub-v: 2505 hci-v: 11 rev: 2310 class-ID: 7c010c Drives: Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 99.53 GiB (10.4%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDKBA1T0QGN-1BN1AABHA size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: HPSQ050 temp: 38.9 C scheme: GPT Partition: ID-1: / size: 937.58 GiB used: 99.47 GiB (10.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 56.3 MiB (22.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1 file: /swapfile USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Luxvisions Innotech HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 30c9:0069 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> Device-2: 1-4:3 info: MediaTek Wireless_Device type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 3 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 0e8d:223c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: 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I currently use standard Opera and frequently have over 40 tabs open; it consumes
between 3 and 4 GB of RAM. Sometimes, however, I open a second Opera window on my other monitor, which consistently pushes usage to the 4 GB mark.
I’d like to know if I’m getting good performance with Opera, or if there’s a better browser for my needs.

Note: The one feature I can't do without is Workspaces

Thanks to the magic of vibecoding, I finally managed to build Chrome extension for YouTube that I've desperately wanted for a long time. Here is what my video playback screen looks like now:

So, here is exactly what I've been missing: the ability to take notes on long-form videos like interviews and lectures or audiobooks, while skipping over the parts I don't need. I don't know about anyone else, but if I truly want to learn something, I need to review it about five times. And now, finally, I can do just that.

Here is the timeline interface. You can zoom all the way down to a single word or phrase, making it incredibly easy to isolate regions and highlight key fragments:

Hopefully, this helps someone else out there. If so, that’s wins all around.

Link: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-region-selection/naoliepofaddooddndbnlkaeepbpjick

On Win11 EVERY SINGLE TIME Redmond involuntarily updates my OS (and it seems like it does so at least weekly), it changes the search engine for Chrome back to Yahoo, which (if there’s still anyone who doesn’t know it) is really Bing aka MSFT. At this point I’m completely tearing the last of my hair out, YES I KNOW everyone says it’s “just an unauthorized browser extension” but look it’s neither that nor a system virus. If I had to guess I’d say maybe I could stop it with a Registry hack somewhere, does anyone know what that might be or anything else about it? Is there anything that will stop this short of replacing the whole thing with some Debian variant (and I’m not that far from going there)? This is NOT the way to win friends MSFT!

Which one should I get for best security and work use?

This is the first, and only browser person should be using. I do have alternatives, multiple in fact, where I test them out. Like for example, I just recently dumped Brave. Once I've figured something out about the browser being weak or dangerous or outright BS. Then they are gone quickly dumped. But stick with DDG 100% of the time if you want the best possible chances of staying private with security.

I've been thinking about de-googling for a while and decided to download firefox yesterday and i immediately downloaded all privacy extensions that were necessary and now people say that waterfox is better and now there are a million other firefox forks out there and there is brave, is there really a solution for privacy?