What's the best browser for Android?

If you are serious about ad blocking, adaway or other host file based blocker is what you want.

You will then have blocking in any browser you want and even in your apps.

You have to unlock your phone though.

I'm using Edge on my Tab S4. Chrome sucks on every platform as it always has, Firefox doesn't adapt well on this site in particular as I rotate the tablet in and out of landscape, and Samsung Internet doesn't support dropdown lists on forward and back buttons. Edge is the least offensive, though I hate the fact you have to sign into Windows 10 with your Microsoft account to sync bookmarks. I've found you can avoid that if you allow store apps to sign you in automatically, like Solitaire. This puts Windows 10 into some hybrid state where you're signed into your Microsoft account but still using your local account name to sign into Windows (you actually see both your local account name and email address in Settings/Accounts), so it doesn't frick up your network sharing. To sync bookmarks with Samsung Internet, you have to install their Chrome extension and deal with Chrome, which is also a minor PITA.

FWIW, I use Firefox on the PC and have for many years. It's hands down the best on the PC. I really wanted to like it on Android because it syncs bookmarks natively, but it just isn't good on Android. To use Edge, I exported my Firefox bookmarks from my three main Firefox profiles, imported them into distinct folders in the Firefox profile I created for syncing, and then I imported them into the PC Edge browser and allowed it to sync with the tablet. It eventually worked.

That reminds me. Android Firefox has the shittiest bookmark system. It only opens in a tab, which will replace the contents of your current tab, and it always opens to the root of the folder hiearchy. For someone like me with a million bookmarks organized into folders, this is a total dealbreaker. At least Edge and Samsung Internet open as menus and remember where you were the last time you used them. Ironically, on the PC, Firefox's superior bookmark implementation complete with sidebar is one of the reasons I've always used it.

I like Opera on android. Like Firefox on computer but it has sucked lately.

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Brave is Chrome with an adblocker

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Man you had me excited but there is no way to import Chrome bookmarks or autofill. I was hoping it would since its based on Chromium.

I use Via