I’ve used a lot of web browsers. My journey down the "Information Super Highway" actually started before there were paved roads i.e. before the WWW existed. My first use of the internet was mainly using tools like gopher, archie, veronica, ftp, email, and usenet. The first web browsers I can remember using were Cello and Mosaic, but I may have used an older text mode web browser on a BBS prior to that.

I’ve been using linux for going on 31 (DANG, that’s over half my life) years now, and feel like the GUI web browsers I’ve spent the most time in are Netscape and Firefox. In the terminal, it’s been links, lynx, and w3m. I’ve happily used Firefox for the last I-don’t-know-how-many-years, with the extensions ublock origin, Joplin web clipper, Vimium (for Vim-style keybindings), and Bitwarden.

The reasons I decided to try something else boil down mainly to needing something keyboard-focused (Vim-like keybindings), minimal GUI (less clunky), and light weight. Firefox with Vimium meets the Vim-like keybindings, but with my tendency to have a lot of tabs open, I was having to run a couple of extra extensions (OneTab and Auto Tab Discard) just to manage the amount of memory Firefox was consuming. As for the something-less-clunky requirement, Firefox even with the menu and bookmark toolbars disabled still uses more screen real estate than I’d like.