What is your favourite browser for iPhone or iPad? What features make it your top choice?
Safari because all other “browsers” are basically wrappers for Safari and yes even Google Chrome.
I don’t know why you’re being down voted. You’re right. Other than other browsers like Brave having built in adblocking and being able to sync with desktop Firefox for example, there is literally no difference in terms of performance.
People don’t like hearing the truth but who am I to judge. Let them live in a bubble and think that downloading a different browser changes anything. It’s just Safari with extra steps (and maybe a little bit more features).
Yup…but I use Firefox for the syncing
WebKit. It’s all WebKit.
As long as Apple forces webKit for browsing, any third party browser will more or less be a safari wrapper. Until that changes, I will keep using safari in iOS.
Safari
Also Safari. The only issue I have is the auto page zoom cuts off the right side slightly. Very minor but still bothers me. I filed a bug on it over on the lemmy-ui GitHub project.
Which instance? I’m on Lemmy.world and using the webapp and no problems.
Every instance. My issue was marked as fixed today in 0.17.4-40 so hopefully it will be available soon.
Firefox. Google never.
Yep, Firefox for me as well on all devices.
How do you deal with ads? I’m running Adguard on my device but from experience it only seems to work in Safari :/
I use firefox focus as a content blocker. Works well
Yeah it’s definitely Safari for me, most of the time. I do switch to Brave whenever I want to watch YouTube though, since it actually blocks ads there.
Firefox. I love how it integrates with Firefox on the other half dozen devices and computers I use daily.
lol is someone just downvoting anyone who doesn’t use brave? i don’t use brave, come downvote me
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.
safari because it’s the only browser compatible with extensions (I’m using AdGuard with it) and because all the other browsers are basically safari anyways.
I use Firefox Focus as a backup tho
If you’r you have Firefox focus installed, you can just use that as a content blocker
Safari, only because of the extensions. I like being able to use custom ad block filters and userscripts.
Do Safari extensions work as well as Firefox’s?
Yeah. Extensions are a must have and the reason I use Safari on iOS, even though I use Firefox everywhere else.
Orion Browser which comes with a built-in add blocker.
+1
Been using this on my iPad pro for several months. I love the flexibility for extensions. It’s not perfect but I enjoy the trade offs even if it does randomly slowdown sometimes.
Also using Orion! It’s the only one that’s convinced me it’s better than Safari, primarily because it’s actually more aggressive with power savings than Safari. The implementation to kill idle tab processes almost immediately is very effective imo.
I find Orion to be very laggy, even with very few tabs open. And i just cant use it because of this. Did you find it to act the same for you?
I’ve only used it on iOS so far, but I’m a backer so I think that might mean I have a newer version than the public beta. I might try it again if that was a while ago, I had a few bugs previously that have been sorted in the more recent versions.
Cool tip, thanks! I see it blocks cookie prompts, that is huge. Any further tips for setup or extensions more specifically for iOS? On mobile I have been using Safari + Firefox Focus for the Adblock extension and Nextdns filtering on the back. Do I understand all of these are redundant interms of ad blocking while using Orion?
Safari. Nothing else has enough unique features to feel worth it. I use Arc on Mac but the iPhone app is missing too many features. Also, it’s lack of support for 2FA from passkeys (prob not their fault) and some other small features make me consider switching back to safari on Mac. I’d miss adblockers though.
Brave for sure
Firefox is my favorite browser. Best feature is the sync, which let’s me access everything on my phone, personal laptop and work laptop.
Interesting, I’ve had major website loading issues on Firefox for iOS for some reason. I keep wanting to love it, but websites will just fail to load and I end up switching back to Safari
I use Safari but if Firefox was like how it is on Android with addons then I’d be using that instead.
