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

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[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] joel_anderson@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WebKit. It’s all WebKit.

[–] CynAq@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] linko@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] JimmyAllnighter@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, Firefox for me as well on all devices.

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[–] DoubleCore@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Safari because all other "browsers" are basically wrappers for Safari and yes even Google Chrome.

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[–] Kovu@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Nutmeg 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Orion Browser which comes with a built-in add blocker.

[–] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] itiya@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] Tormented@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

+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.

[–] Rbon@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] orbitingcar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Safari here as well. Haven't found a compelling reason to switch thus far.

[–] supermurs@suppo.fi 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is my favorite browser. Best feature is the sync, which let's me access everything on my phone, personal laptop and work laptop.

[–] redsol2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] madmax722@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

lol is someone just downvoting anyone who doesn’t use brave? i don’t use brave, come downvote me

[–] rasterweb@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Firefox. I love how it integrates with Firefox on the other half dozen devices and computers I use daily.

[–] desqrypt@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Safari, only because of the extensions. I like being able to use custom ad block filters and userscripts.

[–] feyo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Extensions are a must have and the reason I use Safari on iOS, even though I use Firefox everywhere else.

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[–] MrFuryian@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Safari, but waiting on Vivaldi to get out of beta/testflight.
I use the Vivaldi browser everywhere and would be nice to have it on iOS to.

[–] Zak8022@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I’m eager to see what Vivaldi’s iOS browser ends up being. I’ve flipped back and forth on desktop between Firefox and Vivaldi a lot. I always end up back on Firefox just for “screw chromium” resins, but Vivaldi gets used for Google Hangouts for “silly work” reasons. A good mobile app could push me back to Vivaldi on the desktop.

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.

[–] jcb2016_@mastodon.social 4 points 1 year ago

@TwinTurbo Safari all the way. You can adjust the font and scaling without losing the orginal way the site your visting is on. Love that. currently on android though

[–] jerrimu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Safari, because adblock worked before anything else did. I also use the bing app and that has its own embedded browser.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Firefox Focus if it's just a one-off thing. Firefox if I want to keep track of it. I use Firefox everywhere though.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

A moment of silence for Camino and OmniWeb… excellent Mac browsers that couldn’t join us in the modern era.

[–] macintosh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Forosnai@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox. Even though it doesn't have all the nice privacy and, particularly, ad-blocking capabilities as on other platforms, I use it for those reasons on my Android and Windows devices, so I like having it all synced.

[–] Matt@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox for syncing with my other devices, but all the iOS web browsers are different skins over WebKit. I do like that Safari has support for extensions and wish Apple would allow other browsers to utilize them as well.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Brave for sure

[–] mattrussell2319@kbin.social 3 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!

[–] penitentOne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Safari. I really like Hide my email (and private relay is a nice bonus). Not sure if those are available on the other browsers.

[–] Harlan_Cloverseed@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This seems like it should be a poll. Safari.

[–] AnotherPerson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Chrome to sync all my browser stuff across platforms.

[–] 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.

[–] rawmill@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] peaks@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The spaces and auto tab cleaning are so helpful in managing my chaos

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I use Safari but if Firefox was like how it is on Android with addons then I'd be using that instead.

[–] kraftzingles@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Currently I use safari and duckduckgo. I'm waiting for apple to allow other browsers to actually use their own software rather than basically be safari in new clothes and without access to extensions. Sadly.

[–] leopardboy@netmonkey.tech 2 points 1 year ago
[–] djidane535@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Safari to facilitate the interactions with my MacBook.

[–] RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah the handoff feature is slick. I like being able to switch between devices.

[–] cianmor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Safari ...and FYI every browser on iOS uses Safari's WebKit.

[–] Newby@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Edge. Only way I found to easily send websites to and from my surface.

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