Zorin has been using Brave as its default browser since version 17.3.
Now, a question for the community: which browser have you been using every day since then?
Is it Brave, or have you gone back to Firefox, or are you using something else?
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On my Linux systems (Linux mint and Zorin) I use brave browser.
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Since im still on Zorin OS 16, I'm still using Firefox and Chrome. Having said that however, in the light of the new privacy concerns, as soon as the Zorin OS 18 PRO upgrader shows up, I'm buying PRO, and I'm upgrading to OS 18, and i'm switching to Brave.
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Zen browser
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LibreWolf and Firefox.
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I use Firefox.
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Depends what I'm doing. I used Zen as the only browser for 3 months but became fed up with some of its quirks. For web development work I mainly use Firefox as I vastly prefer it's web inspector tools to chrome.
Personal browsing I mainly use zen. I love the pinned tabs shortcuts in zen which I use for WhatsApp, zorin forum and a few other frequent sites.
For some clients where I need to be logged into their Google account I use chrome, I don't use chrome for anything else .
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To be honest, I can't decide between Brave and Firefox.
Firefox works as usual, but Brave feels like it runs faster than Firefox.
I use googlechrome but when I need VPN I use Firefox with bowsec VPN extension. actualy I learned your reply and I decided to try ZEN Thanks
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Brave on 2 machines. Firefox as backup or Chromium.
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Chrome, stopped using Firefox before because I needed decent support for PWAs
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That is because of the Chromium Engine and that this is widespreaded supported.
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Every day I use Brave in different platforms. Why? Because of one initial reason:
NO ADS ON YOUTUBE! 
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Firefox with uBlock Origin will also block ads completely.
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I use Brave with Startpage as my Search Engine ....
Despite it not being open source and based on Chromium I use Vivaldi browser. They will never sell your data. Privacy is a top priority. Vivaldi is a small company of aboug 40 people and its founder Jon Von Tetzchner has long been a spokesman for internet privacy. Highly customisable: Keyboard shortcuts, Mouse Gestures, Menus, Toolbars, and Themes can be modified to optimise your workflow. Even more modifications are possible using CSS and Javascript. It has powerful tab organisation with Tab Stacksi, Tab Tiling, Saved Sessions, Workspaces and Pinned Tabs. It has Built-in Translator from Lingvanex that supports over 100 languages. Hosted on Vivaldi’s own servers so that your data privacy is not compromised. It has Web Panels to manage favourite sites in a side bar. Show/hide them with a click, shortcut, or mouse gesture. It has Built-in Tracker Cookie and Ad-Blocking customizable so you decide what you want to see. You do not need a third party ad blocker. Ther are 18 distinct customizable setting pages in the settings so you can make your browser look and work exactly how you want it. Vivaldi has It has a built-in email client, so you can manage your life from one application. Also includes a Calendar and Feeds. With Vivaldi I know it is private and the email/calendar cah be linked to Thunderird with Cal Dav. Everything about this browser makes me a fan, from the Linux-first privacy-focused devs to the thousand useful features, the pretty UI that looks like it'd fit in really well with GNOME's GTK/Adwaita user interface, and I can go on and on (and i will).
I tend to have a ton of tabs open, and being able to see the title of all those tabs while also being able to categorize and sort trough them using workspaces has likely already saved me like a whole 1-2 hours worth of time scrolling trough tabs having to hover over them to see their titles. The account sync too. I've always been worried about losing all my tabs and bookmarks with Firefox, always having to save my tabs as bookmarks and save that as a JSON file and then load that back in after reinstalling my OS, because I honestly don't trust Mozilla enough to use account sync. Vivaldi's sync being encrypted, having options for 2FA, and having trustworthy devs is really neat. The whole backstory of the browser feels like something you'd see in a movie too XD
With the CEO of Opera essentially being kicked out by investors and Opera becoming.. whatever it is now with Opera GX.. Only for the CEO to come back with a blast and make a better browser than them. With all this it still uses bit less RAM and CPU than Chrome, Brave, or Firefox. Being headquartered in Norway Vivaldi is subject to the Norwegian Personal Data act. I could talk for pages about why I use Vivaldi but enough for now
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Your description of Vivaldi sounded interesting and I have installed it on my Android smartphone. Do you know how to disable the similar searches in search engine startpage? They take up so much screen space and I would like to disable them but can't find the setting to do so.
"Show search engine suggestion" is already disabled.
This is what I mean:
With the fresh installed Vivaldi browser I have problems with weird large text in the foreground in Zorin forum - I don't know where it comes from.
@Dexxa Is it okay for you that I ask this question here? I can open a own thread.
Edit: I changed in the forum's profile settings the language from German to English, now the weird text is gone. Probably it was a conflict because of the German interface and the integrated translation service of the browser.
I also had problems that threads couldn't be translated with the browser (I don't like to translate every single post with the 
function) and this issue has also been solved by switching to English and only using the browser's translation service.
I personally always use Google Chrome (the DEB version as the Flatpak version has some issues with Progressive Web Apps)
That's perfectly fine, no problem at all. .
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I've been using Firefox for the past twenty years. The first thing I do after a fresh install of Zorin OS is to completely remove Flatpak, Snapd, and Brave Browser
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