To the people, is Firefox still the go to browser? Is there something better out there for the average person? I’ve heard good things about internet explorer.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    562·
    6 months ago

    First of all, I’d really love to know who told you anything, let alone good, about IE.

    If anything, Firefox is in the best spot it’s ever been. Any time I’ve encountered an issue with it, it was because Google are actively crippling the web experience for the rest of the internet

    • dalë@lemm.eeEnglish
      324·
      6 months ago

      Unless you’re using android where on tablets it still doesn’t support multi tab browsing but is an overblown phone app.

      • Alphane Moon@lemmy.mlEnglish
        61·
        6 months ago

        What do you mean by multi-tab browsing.

        I’ve used Firefox on Android tablets and while it does have a “phone app” UX to it, it works fine; specifically tabbed browsing is not an issue.

        • dalë@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Every other android browser supports tab bar for browsers on wide devices , the one exception FF.

          I want a desktop type experience on my tablet not a phone UX.

      • Davel23@fedia.io
        3·
        6 months ago

        What version are you using? Firefox Beta for Android supports multi-tabs on both tablet and phone.

      • atocci@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        You got me there, it is really frustrating that I have to open Edge if I want to have two tabs open at the same time.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    423·
    6 months ago

    Internet Explorer is pretty much dead, replaced by Edge. Edge is better than the early days when Explorer was a joke but I still prefer Firefox by a mile

    Inb4 a crypto bro recommends Brave

  • Muscar@discuss.onlineEnglish
    191·
    6 months ago

    Still the best IMO, and how is it not for the average person? It’s just as fully featured and easy to use as anything else.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    6 months ago

    It’s my daily driver. There are a few sites that don’t work well with it, but those are very rare in my experience. Latest one to break on me was State Farm. And so what. Fuck State Farm.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    111·
    6 months ago

    There are only two browsers now, chrome(ium) and firefox. Everything else is one of those with some changes.

    Firefox based is usually the way to go if you want to avoid anything Google related.

    Otherwise, they’re on par with each other, imo.

    • Drusenija@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Isn’t Safari WebKit which is different again? Or is that a chromium base as well? (I realise you can’t exactly choose Safari unless you have Apple stuff, but I thought it was its own thing).

      • Bipta@kbin.social
        41·
        6 months ago

        Safari is different from Chromium and Firefox but not widely available and pretty similar to Chromium in being webkit-based.

        • palordrolap@kbin.social
          1·
          6 months ago

          Some Linux packages have WebKit as a dependency and that often has something called MiniBrowser installed as, well, precisely what it says it is. Not sure if it’s available on Windows, but it’s OK in a pinch.

          There are a few other lesser known browsers, not in the main families, that are currently in development too.

      • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Originally there was KHTML, developed by KDE for the konquerer browser. This was then forked by Apple to WebKit which is used by safari and gnome web. Google then forked WebKit to blink, the browser engine chromium uses.

      • ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        lol I dont know what this means. all i can say is i misread the message as not-a-joke before realizing i was wrong and then deleted the message. whole process took roughly 30 seconds.