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What is your favourite browser for iPhone or iPad? What features make it your top choice?

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Safari.

I love the tab bar to the moon and back. Every other browser is just Safari with an asterisk, since Apple makes everybody use WebKit.

I don’t use Chrome on any of my devices, so I’m not worried about missing out on sync. The fewer Google products I use, the better.

[-] thehatfox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Safari, with Wipr for ad blocking.

I use Safari as my main browser for Mac as well so everything is synced.

If the App Store rules are ever relaxed by Apple willingly or by regulation I would likely use a proper port of Firefox too.

[-] Dancermouse@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Mostly safari. But when i need to move a website from my iPhone to Windows i will open it on firefox.

[-] mattrussell2319@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Brave. Privacy good and it uses its own search engine. Used to be handy because it showed Reddit in search results but, well, stuff happened!

[-] ravnswood@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Safari, but I’m trying out Vivaldi. Looks good, scrolling is not as smooth as expected for a browser, but it’s just a beta.

[-] Nerdlinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Safari, because it never gave me a reason to look for alternatives.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Chrome. Used to be Safari for continuity across my Macbook but then a bunch of extensions I used got killed and I never went back. Chrome has all my account info saved across all my devices so it's easiest to just use that.

[-] kosmicpulse@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] bit@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Always end back on safari. Solid privacy defaults while still working perfectly for most websites.
Other browsers, like Orion, keeps stopping important websites from working

[-] the_robomafia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Safari for the privacy/ adblocking

[-] Jdp459@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Chrome, just because I use it on the desktop and like how it syncs like safari does. I still keep safari on my mac and my iphone but most of my usage is chrome now, I would switch back to Safari or even Firefox, but the extensions I use are only in chrome for my day to day work.

[-] Jezebelley@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I use Safari. Feels the fastest. 1blocker has been just as good as ublock for me and Userscripts is a great replacement for Tampermonkey.

[-] namesare4squares@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I use Userscripts across iOS Safari and MacOS Safari via an iCloud folder accessible to each. Has made life much easier for me on mobile.

[-] Jezebelley@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Same! It's a great way to make your own little cloud scripting service.

[-] Balssh@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I’ll definitely be in the tiniest minority, but I use Edge on both my laptop and iPhone. Despite the general hate towards Microsoft I see online, their browser is really well made and so behaved better than Firefox or Chrome in the past ~3 years.

[-] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

WebKit because its the only browser allowed on iOS/iPadOS.

[-] vimdiesel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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[-] zombiepete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Safari does everything I need.

[-] Deemo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Safari due to extensions.

I have tried out Orion since it can use chrome/firefox extensions (though its hit/miss)

[-] Graphine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just standard Safari. I use NextDNS to block ads.

I don't see the purpose in using other browsers currently considering they all use WebKit.

[-] alien@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Duckduckgo with NextDNS and somehow it works well and fasts with my old iPhone.

[-] jollas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox + Brave for youtube 👍

[-] Thief@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 year ago

Used to use firefox until it somehow became shit and was forced to change to safari. Super annoying. Used to be a great app.

[-] cazool@cazool.xyz 1 points 1 year ago
[-] thanksbrother@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Edge lately. Don’t sleep on edge.

[-] hortivert@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Edge on desktop is wicked, but on iOS and ipadOS it just feels clunky. The way safari lets you navigate it like an iphone with swipes instead of button presses is unparalleled imo

[-] thanksbrother@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Won’t disagree that there is some clunkiness on iPhone, but it’s such a better experience on desktop for me that I still favor it on iPhone because it allows me to access my spaces and other features and I just hope the mobile experience smooths out. I don’t like using safari, and opening what I was looking at on my phone quickly and easily on desktop is nice.

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[-] 0485919158191@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Chrome all the way!

[-] Hazbuzan@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

Chrome, safaris ui sucks so much I cant stand it. I also feel like its considerably slower.

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