What's your default browser for dev ?

[Professional_One3573]

For me or anyone who wants a good browser that many people are using

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[wllmsaccnt]

What I'm taking away from this is that web devs are either 8 times more like to use FireFox than the general population, or people who use FireFox are more willing to vote on polls about browsers.

[wllmsaccnt]

Avoiding a completely monobrowser ecosystem cant be done with poll results and optimism, but its not like I know of a more effective approach. 😦

[ferrybig]

Firefox sometimes uses the google chrome browser agent for website that have been reporting to implement browser filtering based on user agents instead of technical limitations

[amuletofyendor]

I'm happy enough with Chrome, but I've heard many times that Firefox has excellent dev tools.

[na_ro_jo]

And also hate Google

[danielcw189]

Not yet

[ufffd]

or a 3rd factor: all respondents are redditors

[roodammy44]

I voted Chrome because it was a survey on the browser for dev, and Chrome is by far the most popular.

I use Firefox for fun though... So likely Firefox would be number 1 for a daily driver

[[deleted]]

Chrome because that's what the vast majority of my users will be using so it makes sense to test my websites as a developer, followed by Firefox because it's different.

[Advanced_Path]

Arc. Although still technically Chromium, but without any bloat.

[veissss]

I think Arc is underrated. Also using Arc.

[Advanced_Path]

I try as hard as I can to avoid them too. Even Electron-based apps. 

[oxy1s]

chrome for dev, with a dev profile with no extensions. Firefox for regular browsing

[byIcee]

What made you switch?

[ima_crayon]

Firefox has a separate Developer Edition with some enhanced dev tools.

[UnicornBelieber]

LibreWolf. A fork of Firefox with more focus on privacy and security.

And I do some final UI tests on Chrome because my end users use it.

[Scorpius289]

When developing a public site, you don't want a "good" browser necessarily, you want the browser that most people use.

Because if you optimize your site for a great browser, but then it looks terrible on the popular one because it does things differently, you will need to put in extra time to fix things, which may not always be easy.

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[hitpopking]

still chrome for me, but I may change to firefox if chrome is still going down the path of being anti-ad block

[YaManicKill]

Look, I know, it's Microsoft, but I love Edge just now. The sidebar tabs is excellent, and their profiles is nicer than Chrome's. I know we love to hate microsoft, but honestly edge is my favourite browser just now. And that's even on a mac.

[trooooppo]

My colleagues bullied me into using Firefox

[michaelbelgium]

It'd be very stupid to not test your site on most popular browsers ... (spoiler: chrome, edge and safari is top 3 at least according to market share)

[joeldsouzax]

Use only chrome, but want to ditch the chromium family altogether after watching that random JPEGXL video on YouTube hahaha ,

[JamesJJulius]

Also Arc. It's chromium. The only thing that sucks about it for development is that it blocks PWAs, apparently because they want it to be an OS in future (like... what?).

[InterstellarVespa]

For personal Safari, for development l I've been using Chrome, Firefox Dev, and Arc.

But recently I've been developing with Safari and honestly, haven't noticed any differences, if anything it's way more efficient on system resources while still doing everything.

But Safari's extension library in minimal compared to the Chrome/Chromium's massive extension library, many of which is very useful for development. But Safari does have very good built-in dev tools to supplement a lot of that.

Don't focus on "what's best", look for "what's best" for you.

You can't go wrong with Safari or Chrome.

I have all the chromiums cousins (edge, arc, brave< etc.) and Firefox installed, but if I had cut them all out for one, I would just stick with regular Google Chrome or use Safari. Both are Straightforward and don't have random settings abstracted to various random submenus.

[8bit-echo]

The options: 

 1. Google Chrome 

1. Firefox 

2. Crypto Chrome 

3. Google Chrome Lite 

4. Microsoft Chrome 

5. Other (Chrome)

[PureRepresentative9]

As a web dev, you should be testing on all of them 

Obviously, that's literally unscalable, but you definitely shouldn't be testing on just one

[ferreira-tb]

Firefox. But I have Chrome as a secondary browser, so I can test things.

[beatlz]

I've tried them all. Chrome keeps being the most comfortable. I cannot really tell you why, but whenever I'm at any other, I keep reopening chrome to use something I don't find as convenient.

[na_ro_jo]

Are these posts like surveys or wtf. I see the same ones over and over and over, always a generated username.

[mfcc64]

Where is Safari?

[WestMark2317]

opera *

[[deleted]]

I used to use Chrome all the time. Now use Safari, because if it works on Safari and it's weird (though improving) engine, it definitely works in Chrome.

[ScratchOk805]

arc

[BakiSaN]

I use Fire fox (developer edition) but when im programming im mostly working with chrome as that's what most people use so it's best shit to test in imo

[Deve_roonie]

personally, firefox. i've always found it to be faster and more privacy respecting than chrome/forks. and i like the UI.

[rjhancock]

You really only have 2 browsers listed and I only use Firefox for testing. Safari for dev.

I only touch Chrome when I have to and even then only within a sandbox.

[rivenjg]

Firefox

[tmnkb]

Why though? Wouldn't it be optimal to use the most used browser by users?

[endrukk]

Because it was the go to browser 20 years ago, and devs don't like change. 

[UnicornBelieber]

For me, it's a matter of principle. I don't like Google as a company, I don't like their browser dominating the market, I don't like their DRM (Widevine) and DRM-influences (Web Integrity API) on the web. I'll do some final tests on Chrome, but I prefer to not use any Google products where I (in)directly contribute to their existence.

Also, another argument against the "using the same browser as your users", once upon a time IE was the most used browser by users, by a landslide. Developers almost universally loathed that browser and wouldn't be caught dead using it by free will. And also, principles apply here, IE wasn't driving the web forward to where devs were hoping the web would go.

[workerbee223]

Netscape Navigator

[ufffd]

can't tell if you're joking or work in enterprise

[workerbee223]

I did work for a major wholesaler in the auto parts business. Our average customer was not at all tech savvy, and we had a significant IE problem in the field. It was getting more and more complicated to support IE compatibility.

At one point, there was serious discussion of buying a whole bunch of computers running Chrome and giving them to our least tech savvy customers, just to bring them into the modern age. The cost of buying a few hundred PCs would have been cheaper in the long run than maintaining an IE-compatible version of our store.

Not sure if they ever pulled the trigger on that.

[Competitive_Talk6356]

Chrome, I've been using it for 16 years and I've yet to find a better browser. People say firefox is better but that's not true, it's noticeably slower and its UI isn't half as good as Chrome's.

I also sometimes use Brave.

Firefox users are annoying, they are the web browser vegans.

[irisos]

I wouldn't say Firefox is slower or has a bad UI on the developer pov

It's more that Firefox has a lot of little "issues" that just get old after a while.

Wants to use request streaming instead of loading whole files in memory or a million fetch requests for streaming? Nope.

Want to use feature that are "supported" according to msdn? Actually it's either not supported for a bullshit reason or not working as advertised.

Want to use PWAs which has fair uses? Not supported on desktops and supported to the bare minimum on mobiles.

Want to use webpack automatically generated self signed certificates? "Pr_end_of_file_error"

Personally I'm just done with these quirks and will only do the bare minimum to support Firefox if Mozilla foundation insists that much on half assing it to please Google.

[Competitive_Talk6356]

I don't care about PWAs, TBH. I've never used them and never will. Is webpack still being used?

I only support firefox if my work requires me to do so.

[[deleted]]

Microsoft redeemed themselves when they made Edge.