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Does anyone use Safari exclusively for all their browsing? I've heard great things about DuckDuckGo's browser, Firefox Focus, (Vanilla) Firefox, Brave, Opera, e
by favourable 5y ago
Does anyone use Safari exclusively for all their browsing? I've heard great things about DuckDuckGo's browser, Firefox Focus, (Vanilla) Firefox, Brave, Opera, etc. I try to minimize the apps I have installed, but when it comes to browsers, I like to have a fair amount of them installed, not because I especially like certain browsers, just that it minimizes the attack surface, and compartments browsing sessions, which is essential these days. I still leave a footprint, but having your browsing insulated from other browsing sessions is a good practice. Anyone else do this? Multiple browsers === Privacy win?
- mulander 5y ago> just that it minimizes the attack surface I stopped using multiple browser for exactly that purpose. It actually increases your attack surface. While compartmentalization of browsers helps somewhat against tracking you now have to keep all of them updated. RCE bug in one of them already compromises everything you have on your machine, so having multiple browsers just means the attacker can pick from a wider array of targets.
- favourable 5y agoI meant the attack surface of browsing sessions. Yes I agree, having multiple browsers increases the attack surface of the device, which is why I try to minimize the amount of apps installed. But browsers are an exception.
- dmitriid 5y ago> Does anyone use Safari exclusively for all their browsing? I do. Or I did. Google Cloud Console is unbearably slow and often broken (charts ugh) in Safari and marginally less so in Chrome. So I do all my browsing except GCP console in Safari.
- rcarmo 5y agoYep. Some Firefox on occasion.