How I browse the web safely: a practical setup with Firefox, Vivaldi, and Ungoogled Chromium
My practical approach to surfing the web safely
The web is full of threats: trackers, ads, cookie banners, and even security exploits. This guide presents a practical, threat-model-based approach to safe browsing, as implemented on the author's work laptop and Android phone. The main setup is a hardened Firefox with uBlock Origin and Multi-Account Containers, blocking cookies by default and isolating logged-in sessions. For sites that break under such restrictions, the author uses Vivaldi or Ungoogled Chromium as fallbacks, balancing privacy, performance, and compatibility. The article also covers mobile browsing, where Firefox is the only Android browser supporting powerful extensions like uBlock Origin.
The web is a dangerous place.
- traceroute66
> Main browser: A restricted Firefox
Mullvad Browser[1] is an example of just that, ready to go for people in the real world who don't have the time or inclination to mess around with random extensions and `about:config` hacking.
Also surprised the blog author made zero mention of the importance of keeping your OS up to date. Its all very well having a patched and hardened browser but not if you're running it on a vulnerable OS.
- steammaho
Aren't we in an era when you literally can build your own browser with everything just you need?
I have no knowledge in browsers developement. But in my field it became often easier to make your own tool\app then trying to use third party and make it work for you
- eptcyka
My practical approach is to have a microvm for firefox and a bubblewrap “jail” for a firefox instance that runs on the host. Of course, the config options mentioned here are good too.