Favorite browser and why

It's webkit behind everywhere outside the EU so... Safari works just fine for me and this was the case before I get my mac as well.

The browser engine. Basically the technical stuff that process a website. iOS even with chrome uses the open source Webkit engine rather than that of chrome (blink --> v8, chromium) or firefox's gecko. Like if all the car manufacturers, say tesla, would add its own skin and logo but the motor inside would be of xyz company.
So for VO on ios for example, it'll always behave the exact same whether you open a site on firefox, chrome, edge (edge and chrome are both chromium based btw) or safari.

If we're talking about iOS, I go between Safari and Firefox. If we're talking about favorite browser overall, Firefox all the way. Though for me, it's Firefox on Windows 11 PC.
The main reason I use Firefox on iPhone, is so I can sync with my Windows laptop. Think handoff, but between an iOS device and a PC device. I do realize this can be done with Microsoft edge, and likely a few other browsers, but I like Firefox.
Regarding PC, Firefox is just very easy for me to use. I also like that it has an easily accessible "reader mode" simply by pressing F9 while on a webpage. Firefox also has a decent password manager, which can also sync with my iPhone. In fact, I have autofill set up to pull passwords from either Firefox, or the Passwords app on iOS.

I use safari on my iPad and chrome on my android phone and windows laptop

I tried chrome on iOS and it wasn’t to bad other then there being no way of knowing when a website is loading, the ticking sound vo plays in safari wasn’t happening in chrome last I tried it

Brave works great for me, on both my mac and iPad.

Chrome on windows and obviously chrome os :) and safari on mac but chrome for most pwa.

I haven't even bothered to install another browser on the iPhone, given that they are all the same engine as mentioned above.

On the Mac I have a few installed. On Sonoma I was tending towards Chromium based browsers. I use Chrome as my main work browser. I'd use Edge if I wanted to read a long article due to its lovely reading voices. I also started dabbling in Brave - it makes me a bit uncomfortable as I think it is disabling ads which I guess is the only way some web sites can afford to run. I used Safari a bit but it was way down the pecking order. I dabbled with DuckDuckGo which is basically the same thing again. However, since Sequoia, Chromium has greatly suffered to the point where it's sometimes barely usable. So I'm now back with Safari as may main choice which seems less terrible than it was in Sonoma. Firefox is a near miss - it's just a little behind the others but I should try it again. But if you use a Mac, I tihnk it is essential to have a Chromium browser installed alongside Safari so you have a choice when something doesn't work.

On Windows, it's Firefox. The UI is just a lot less random than other browsers.

In the days I was using Android, when I could see, I think I was using Firefox and Opera. The latter had a nice built-in dark mode, and with Firefox you could install one with extensions. That's all I cared about back then.

I think this post is about iOS web browsers specifically. So I'd be curious what features other browsers have that tempt you away from Safari? Does Edge have those lovely voices on the phone? And I guess Brave does away with ads and cookie notices. I suppose using the same one as you have on your computer might enable password and bookmark sharing if that's important. I'd be happy if one of these anti-trust law suits forced Apple into allowing other rendering engines on the phone.

I've tried Firefox and it might have loaded faster; I'm not sure.

I'm just used to safari, it does what I need it to do.

Hi,
I mostly use Safari on iOS, but I only browse the same few websites on the phone anyway. I much prefer using my Windows machine to browse the web. I did install Google Chrome on my iPhone a couple of years back when I couldn't buy something through a website I was trying to access on Windows. I tried the same site on Safari on iOS, and it still didn't work well enough with VoiceOver, so I tried with Google Chrome which worked much better and I could buy what I wanted. I don't understand why both browsers worked differently since this webkit thing renders each browser the same. Or maybe it didn't a couple of years back because it wasn't a thing then? I mainly use Brave on Windows, and sometimes Google Chrome and Firefox.

It's in fact the opposite as it's only now that eu is forcing apple to allow different browser engines other than webkit on ios/ipados there.