Brothers and sisters, what is your favorite mobile browser and why?

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Hi everyone,

I’m looking for an alternative for Chrome, since it is draining the battery by quite a lot on my Oneplus 9 Pro. I’ve heard good things about Brave, Opera and Firefox but I wouldn’t know the pros and cons so that’s why I wanted to ask you guys!

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Firefox.

Pro: not chromium, add-ons, a breath of fresh air from the sea of chromium out there.

Cons: might feel abit slower since some website is built to optimize on chromium. Some site even looks weird or broken with funky alignment and buttons etc, again, because previous reason.

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Firefox…because uBlockOrigin. Kiwi also has support for uBO but I prefer Firefox because it’s not chromium and sync works perfectly with firefox for pc.

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I use Edge because I use it on my PC and it syncs everything and has decent built in ad block.

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Samsung Internet browser, has everything I need

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Vivaldi because I like to feel special and different it’s extremely feature-rich, functions well on mobile, and syncs pretty effectively with the desktop client.

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Samsung Internet Browser.

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Edge for typical use.
Firefox for the unmentionables.

Mostly this is just to keep my bookmarks separate, and there’s less chance of accidentally sharing something naughty.

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Firefox. The pros/cons are based on my experience/opinions.

Pros:

  • Not Google/Chromium based
  • Only non Webview browser which has been updated in the past 6 months which allows you disable auto hide toolbar, pull to refresh and swipe to switch tabs
  • 2nd best tab switcher UI (best was Firefox 68 and below)

Cons:

  • Slowest browser on Android
  • Uses the most memory on Android (more if you use extensions)
  • Least amount of options to customise, on the UI side (e.g. site settings)
  • Most likely to get killed off in the background (if you don’t lock the app/add to exclusions)
  • Opening 2 badly written sites in new tabs can lock up the renderer, meaning you can’t view existing tabs (until it times out, or you fiddled with about:config beforehand)
  • Uses the most battery (not by much, between 1-2% per hour compared to Chromium based ones)
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I like Chrome and have been using it since it was first released. I like how well bookmarks and history sync between all devices (PC, Steam Deck, Macbook, iPhone, Pixel).

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Opera - has a built in adblocker and supports picture-in-picture feature for youtube. Amazing!

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Kiwi browser, it supports 99% of the extensions I use. It’s also very stable. I’ve been using it for years.

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Firefox (Beta). You can dive in and mod it quite a bit, plus ublock.

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Bounced around quite a few.

Chrome just has near no customization and lets ads feast on your browsing experience, Firefox does not seem well optimized for android still because I have a lot of issues with minor UI annoyances and loading times, Brave likes their crypto too much so I avoid them now too.

That being said, my favorite broswer is Edge. Works great with the chromium base, has adblock, UI is fast, and nothing gets in the way of browsing. It also has some nice visual touches other browsers don’t.

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Brave for Privacy, Firefox for speed

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Samsung is great. It’s like a customizable chrome. I have no idea about the battery life impact.

That said, nothing beats the ease of use of having chrome on every device. There’s always something that bothers me when I use another browser.

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Samsung internet. Default on all phones

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I use Brave. It gives me the best adblocking right out of the box & syncs with my iPad. No other browser I use can do both as well.

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Samsung Internet.

Good dark mode for website. Even has a high contrast mode.

Text size change is so good that no other browser I had tested can do the same.

Downside is you need cloud service to backup your browser data since there is no export setting.

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Samsung Internet because the UX of Edge was irritating me, but I might switch back just for the cross-device syncing (though the Link to Windows app does a good job bridging that gap).

Chrome on Android is not a particularly good browser by any metric IMO.