Coming from the Note 7 and 5, I was all-in on the Samsung browser. It was fast, had a better UX (for me) than Chrome, and offered very effective ad blocking via an add-on.
With the advent of the Pixel, I've been using Chrome, as I had used prior to my Samsung devices. I find it to be fast and of course, familiar, as most of us have used at some point. The lack of effective ad blocking really hinders my reading and interacting with pages, however. Syncing tabs has almost no value for me.
So, I went on a hunt to find a browser I like: fast, intuitive and one that natively or via extensions, blocks ads. I looked into all the likely suspects - I've done this so many times in the past 8 years or so - and decided on Firefox, which I've used in the past. I am OK with the UX. The speed and response seem OK, but the clincher for me was uBlock Origin, my blocker of choice on my laptops. An added plus for me is having text reflow via an extension. I've decided to try out Firefox as my daily driver. At the moment, it works better for me than Chrome.
There's UC, Vivaldi, Brave, Puffin, Opera variants and many others that I investigated, some like UC and Opera I've used extensively in the past. There are pros/cons for each, and like a lot of other things, we need to choose the one that fits our use case.
I was wondering what my fellow Pixel users are using for browsers, particularly ones that offer ad-blocking.
With the advent of the Pixel, I've been using Chrome, as I had used prior to my Samsung devices. I find it to be fast and of course, familiar, as most of us have used at some point. The lack of effective ad blocking really hinders my reading and interacting with pages, however. Syncing tabs has almost no value for me.
So, I went on a hunt to find a browser I like: fast, intuitive and one that natively or via extensions, blocks ads. I looked into all the likely suspects - I've done this so many times in the past 8 years or so - and decided on Firefox, which I've used in the past. I am OK with the UX. The speed and response seem OK, but the clincher for me was uBlock Origin, my blocker of choice on my laptops. An added plus for me is having text reflow via an extension. I've decided to try out Firefox as my daily driver. At the moment, it works better for me than Chrome.
There's UC, Vivaldi, Brave, Puffin, Opera variants and many others that I investigated, some like UC and Opera I've used extensively in the past. There are pros/cons for each, and like a lot of other things, we need to choose the one that fits our use case.
I was wondering what my fellow Pixel users are using for browsers, particularly ones that offer ad-blocking.
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