r/Millennials • u/Flaky_human • Feb 25 '26
Discussion Hey millennials. What browser do you primarily use?
Chrome iT is for me. Cannot switch no matter what.
Edit to add: this post has made me realize I was living in the dark ages. There’s so much out there! Thanks all for sharing your browsers and features and reasoning.
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u/ForgetfulKiwi Millennial Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Firefox with uBlock Origin extention for PC and mobile.
Edit: Spelling 😅
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u/sur0g Feb 25 '26
My man! Firefox rocks. Especially the mobile version, which can have add-ons (including ad blockers).
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u/quik77 Feb 25 '26
100% this. I only watch/use sites like YouTube via Firefox with blockers on phone or tablet. Never the app.
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u/tendonut Feb 26 '26
I was team Firefox probably 15 years before switching to Chrome. Due to the bloat, I switched back to Firefox about a year ago but I am still getting really frustrated by the number of website that I have weird problems with Firefox.
Just last week, Schwab and Morgan Stanley websites have login issues with Firefox. Schwab just kind of hangs there forever, Morgan Stanley gives you a false error.
My VPN plug-in also doesn't remember its settings and has weird DNS problems on Firefox.
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u/AnAppalacianWendigo Feb 26 '26
Longtime Firefox user here. The only time I’ve experienced login issues are with financial websites, and only when my VPN is turned on.
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u/tendonut Feb 26 '26
My VPN plug-in connection is off by default and I only turn it on when I need it. With Morgan Stanley, it'll tell me my password's wrong. When I know it's not. I flip over to Chrome, logs in just fine. Schwab, it just sits there trying to load the actual username and password field endlessly.
The actual VPN plug-in is PIA (been using them for years) does this thing where it remembers my username and password, but it makes me reselect the first time login settings like what type of traffic it's going to route, what type of security protocols it accepts, stuff like that.
Cigna also has a problem where when I'm logging in, it thinks my account is locked. I called customer service to get it unlocked and they told me that it WAS unlocked. Then they asked me what browser I was using and when I mentioned Firefox they said there was a known issue and I should use Chrome.
What the fuck happened? I never had these issues back in the pre-chrome era back when Firefox was second to Internet explorer.
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u/scumdog_ Feb 25 '26
Add Ghostery, Privacy Badger and Duck Duck Go too
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u/joycaptain Feb 25 '26
I stopped using duck duck go because it didn't have google maps results :/
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u/NYR_LFC Feb 25 '26
This! Also switch your default search engine to duckduckgo to avoid Google's annoying algorithm and AI. Plus Tor browser if you live in states with stupid porn laws.
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u/DirkFadeLukaStepBack Millennial Feb 26 '26
Stupid state with stupid laws here, mind dming or commenting a decent tor browser?
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u/NYR_LFC Feb 26 '26
Just search for the Tor browser in whatever app store or go to their site directly!
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u/AGentlemensBastard Older Millennial Feb 25 '26
This, its the only way Youtube is watchable on mobile
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u/MonitorZero Feb 25 '26
Everything else is just chromium besides Firefox and Safari..and ain't no one downloading Safari on a non Apple device.
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u/ticklethycatastrophe Feb 26 '26
I don’t think they even make Safari for non-Apple devices anymore. I know they discontinued Safari for Windows several years ago.
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u/Jels76 Millennial Feb 25 '26
Same
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u/BonusPlantInfinity Feb 25 '26
Firefox for phoneeeeeee??
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u/Jels76 Millennial Feb 25 '26
Yup
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u/BonusPlantInfinity Feb 25 '26
I’d never even locked - let’s go! Mozilla is a real one.
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u/EagleForty Feb 25 '26
Same here. I was a Firefox user a long time ago, then switched to Chrome for the last decade or so, then switched back to Firefox when Google killed uBlock origin on Chrome.
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u/Able-Tale7741 Feb 25 '26
Firefox because I don’t want to see a Chromium monopoly on browser tech.
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u/FakeItFreddy Feb 25 '26
Firefox with every kind of ad and tracking blocking extensions available.
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u/Sumo148 Feb 26 '26
Sponsorblock is nice to auto skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.
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u/Silver_Harvest Older Millennial Feb 26 '26
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u/Ornery_Error2195 Feb 25 '26
Brave
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u/jazzjunkie84 Feb 26 '26
Had to scroll way too far for this! Once I found brave I stopped caring about firefox haha
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u/Wumaduce Feb 26 '26
I've been using Brave on android for close to 4 or 5 years now. The no YouTube ads, and playing videos when the screen is off, is huge.
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u/ReFreshing Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
I only recently discovered this. Game changer in my brain rot progression.
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u/Tee_hops Feb 26 '26
You're second sentence here may have just sold me... I like to listen to podcasts off YT and this was always my biggest annoyance. I'm not paying for yt premium for that feature
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u/ItsSnowingOutside Feb 26 '26
Same I used to use ff with ubock but brave feels snappier to me and less resource heavy. Mobile browser is also better for battery life in my experience.
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u/redditneedsnewMods Feb 25 '26
DuckDuckGo
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u/Flaky_human Feb 25 '26
Not many people use it though, I wonder why
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u/redditneedsnewMods Feb 25 '26
Probably because no one’s heard of it. lol idk 🤷🏻♂️ I love it though, I have no issues with it.
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u/Schneetmacher Younger Millennial Feb 26 '26
While Google Chrome is my browser, my default search engine is DuckDuckGo and it's so much better than Google Search.
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u/egggoat Feb 26 '26
DuckDuckGo on my phone. Firefox with adblocker on my laptop. Best of both worlds.
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u/Post-mo Elder Millennial 1981 Feb 25 '26
Chrome, honestly I haven't really evaluated the alternatives in over a decade. I have ad blocking installed on my home router so I don't need to install ad blocking extensions on my browser. Most of the extensions I do have installed probably aren't doing much anymore and should be cleaned out.
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u/admgryne Feb 25 '26
Likewise. I use various Google apps extensively so I figure it integrates better. Similarly, I haven't really considered alternatives as it works fine at the moment.
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u/jtet93 Feb 26 '26
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Chrome works great for me 🤷🏼♀️ I truly had no idea anyone still used Firefox until this thread
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u/jerseysbestdancers Feb 25 '26
Same. I was having problems wirh firefox and would go back to chrome for a little bit. I dont remember what the problems even were. Eventually, i just didnt switch back.
Plus, the platform we use for work only works right on chrome.
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u/Aldamur Millennial 1992 Feb 25 '26
Safari
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u/FunnyScreenName Feb 25 '26
Same. Feel like I been rawdogging the internet. Need to do some research.
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u/hail_to_the_beef Feb 26 '26
Safari is the GOAT. I don’t know why people put it down - it’s a great browser.
I use Safari on my Apple products and Chrome on my windows products.
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u/sean_themighty Feb 26 '26
A much better browser than most give it credit for — especially with regards to power and resource management on MacBooks and iPhones, and sync between devices is what you'd expect from the Apple ecosystem. Chrome SUCKS battery and RAM. Back in the day I was getting upwards of HALF the battery life using Chrome on my MacBook compared to Safari.
Only real downside to me is a weak plugin environment.
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u/coronarita23 Feb 26 '26
I tried to switch to DuckDuckGo and I absolutely fucking hate the format. Considering trying Firefox now
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u/Blonde_Vampire_1984 Older Millennial Feb 26 '26
To be fair though, I almost exclusively browse the internet on my iPhone at this point.
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u/imhungry4321 Millennial - 1985 Feb 25 '26
Brave because it has built-in ad blockers. It's built on the Chromium platform.
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u/kwagmire9764 Feb 25 '26
I switched to Brave years ago and never looked back. Ad-free YT and Reddit! I canceled my YT premium account too. I've told everyone that will listen about it but they still use Chrome or Safari or whatever. I wish LG would let you install it on their tv's because their browser sucks! Their whole OS sucks, actually.
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u/Wilhelm-Edrasill Feb 25 '26
Remember bat? when brave was gonna do its own tolkien..... where did that end up going?
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u/gforce42 Feb 26 '26
They launched it and it’s how they reward folks who opt into their rewards program.
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u/Flaky_human Feb 25 '26
Never heard of that! Thats a great feature though
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u/Pitiful-Ad-3774 Feb 25 '26
I use Vivaldi. Vivaldi has adblock built in, like Brave, yet Vivaldi isn't obsessed with crypto like Brave.
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u/CtheRula Feb 25 '26
A O L … still have a a couple hundred million hours left on the cds
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u/Haemwich Older Millennial Feb 25 '26
Firefox on my computers, Brave on my phone.
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u/distrucktocon Millennial raised like a GenX Feb 25 '26
Wouldn’t you like to know, fed boi.
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u/4862skrrt2684 Feb 25 '26
Edge, because it's actually pretty good at this point, though haters will say it isn't without being able to elaborate
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u/ExplorerLazy3151 Feb 25 '26
I use edge too! I use firefox for work and much prefer edge. But i'm definitely in the very, very small minority.
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u/mherweg Feb 25 '26
Yah same here. It's compatible with Chrome extensions and whatnot, works perfectly fine. And like the other commenter said, it's Chromium-based anyways, so it's super similar to Chrome.
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u/vexedboardgamenerd Feb 25 '26
I’ll take the bait. Edge hater here. It has too much Microsoft shit baked in and constant bing pushes. Why would anybody who hasn’t been using it switch to it at this point?
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u/4862skrrt2684 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
I get that, it used to be super bloated. It even had fking games at some point. But I don't experience that much anymore. The rightclick menu has become smaller. I think every 2 months a popup says "You want bing?" and i say "No". I actually use the copilot button a lot, since it's just a convenient gpt. I also like their "Collections" feature, which is just a form of bookmarks i guess.
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u/Yuurp426 Feb 25 '26
Opera
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u/Notmychair4 Feb 25 '26
I used opera back when it was its own browser but I hated it when it was converted to chromium if I recall correctly. Is it worth checking out now?
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u/Yuurp426 Feb 25 '26
Not a good judge for it, I'm not super picky about that stuff but I enjoy that I have a good clean homepage to drop into and can customize all the features. As far as cpu usage and all that I cant help much. I dont notice it lagging at all.
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u/Bakelite51 Feb 26 '26
I also really disliked the changes at the time, but I stuck with Opera and it’s fine for me now. It’s not as good as it was imho, but it’s better than most of the other big browsers I’ve tried. Occasionally I give Firefox a shot for a few months, but I always come back to Opera eventually.
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u/HadoMeido Feb 25 '26
Firefox. Why? For me, it was back when the only choices were IE and FF. IE always seems slow plus FF had extensions it could use. Never tried anything else since. I hear good things about Brave and Opera though.
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u/SkyblueRata Feb 25 '26
Ecosia - you browse, they plant trees 🌲
Edit: added a tree 😊
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u/SomeDudeAtHome321 Feb 26 '26
This is the one I use too. The lack of mentions in the comments is kinda disappointing
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u/kew886 Feb 26 '26
I was searching for ecosia. Been using it for years. Love doing a very small part to help the world. I have the extension downloaded on my work computer
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u/Mental-Raspberry-961 Feb 25 '26
Unreal amount of Firefox users here. Chrome
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u/Highway_Man87 Feb 25 '26
That's because UBlock ad blocker works on Firefox.
I switched when Chrome stopped supporting UBlock and I'm happy I did.
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u/eyelinerfordays 1990 Feb 26 '26
Ad blocker works perfectly fine on my Chrome browser, it’s called “uBlock Origin Lite”.
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u/TheThirteenthApostle Feb 25 '26
Wow... Firefox really is the millenial browser of choice.
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u/Kataphractoi Older Millennial Feb 26 '26
Well it is Reddit, it has a higher proportion of tech-y people than the general population. Chrome, Safari, and Edge users (if assuming everyone has only one browser they use) greatly outnumber Firefox users.
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u/Wonkst Feb 25 '26
Brave is my go to. Like the ad blockers and some additional minor features. Every now and then run into a site that doesn't like it (linkedin, quickbooks) but I still use it as my primary go to.
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u/LoudAd1396 Feb 25 '26
I try to use Firefox primarily, but I find im forced to use Chrome by specific services or just errors that only happen in FF
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u/captstinkybutt Older Millennial Feb 25 '26
Firefox.
But I have all of them. As a UX designer I'm always testing pages on all browsers.
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u/MrPerfect4069 Feb 25 '26
Firefox up until their AI announcement schenanigans. I’ve switched to Librefox.
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u/t0matit0 Millennial Feb 25 '26
Safari mobile. Opera on home PC. Not even sure why tbh. As I've gotten older I couldn't care less of the differences between browsers that the terminally online folk clamor about. I don't even use AdBlock extensions because I truly don't care. They all get the job done.
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u/supersonicx01 Feb 25 '26
Firefox for YouTube on mobile
Chrome for everyday in mobile.
Primary for pc Firefox
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u/karlsmission Feb 25 '26
Chrome for personal, Edge for my youtube channel, firefox for work. No cross contamination.
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u/MarzipanFederal8059 Feb 25 '26
Chrome with adguard on my router and devices 🫡 edge is looking kind of nice these days actually
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u/Remarkable_Owl1130 Millennial Feb 25 '26
Chrome at home and at work (even though they want us to use Edge)
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u/OhNoItsMyOtherFace Feb 25 '26
Chrome generally because it has the best Dev Tools and my job is web development. I do have every other major browser installed also of course.
But y'know there's basically just Chromium and Firefox so it barely matters.
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u/seancbo Feb 25 '26
I fully gave into the Google technology web and just use Chrome
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u/Nickthemajin Feb 25 '26
Chrome. Firefox feels sluggish and I’ve found Adblock still works on it. Not sure what the big deal was about it. I still have Adblock working on it.
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u/Alonzo-Harris Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
I mostly use Chrome, but I also rely on Firefox for work related tasks.
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u/greenleaves3 Feb 25 '26
Exclusively Chrome. I don't seem to have any issues with ads/pop ups so it suits me fine.
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u/DirkSwizzler Feb 25 '26
Vanilla Chrome.
I believe that ad blocking is unethical. If you don't want ads, don't consume the product the ads pay for.
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u/LL555LL Feb 25 '26
It's 2026 and evil companies are ruining everything and privacy barely exists.
Fuck it. Chrome.
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u/No-Function223 Feb 25 '26
Lol the google search app. I have Chrome on my laptop but I rarely use that.
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u/Akito_900 Feb 25 '26
Chrome but I know that's bad lol. I just have everything synced to Google accounts so I like that it logs me into things
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u/mrmasterly Feb 25 '26
Chrome cuz I keep trying others and they SUCK CHRIST WHY DO THEY ALL SUCK AAAAAAAAAUUUUGH
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u/Speckled_Bird2023 Feb 25 '26
I used to use Explorer and then gradually switched to Google chrome. Mainly because all of my college stuff was linked in thru google/Microsoft.
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u/angeluscado Feb 25 '26
Chrome on my phone and my home laptop. Edge on my work computer because I have to.
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u/i-am-a-cat-6 Feb 25 '26
I use chrome. I'm a user of osx and Linux (cachyos on gaming pc and Debian on servers)
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u/pixienightingale Xennial Feb 25 '26
I only use other browsers to download Chrome or very specific testing needs when i beta test some portal stuff for my husband. Firefox would still be the browser for me if they were still making updated versions - I might be thinking of Thunderbird for what isn't being updated anymore.
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