Arc is my new main browser and I am not adding tabs to Chrome 
Chrome will stay installed due to its part in enabling site-specific apps for Strava and Google Chat.
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Have moved 90% of my browser activity to Arc. Then Safari, Firefox, Edge and Chrome (usually in that order) if I need a fallback or want to test/view and confirm how something works/looks in the other browsers.
Canāt stand Safari, never did. Iāve been with Firefox for decades, and will use Chrome sometimes when a website does not work well with Firefox. But Mozillaās decision to have Firefox updates ON all the time (either auto-install or constant reminders) is a real drag and at times Iāve considered dropping it. They push out updates every few days and it wonāt leave you alone! Plus, log-in identities get reset, so websites ask if Iām using a new device or location, when Iām not.
But I like the open-source concept, and not being sucked any further into the Googleverse than I am already!
I do web development, so I use Firefox and Chrome for testing. Iāve been using Edge lately for ChatGPT stuff in Bing.
My main browser is Safari on both my MacBook (macOS 13.6) and my iMac (macOS 14.0). I donāt like Safari 17; it often has trouble with Facebook, unlike version 16. Safariās auto-fill doesnāt work with my internet service providerās billing page, so I have to use Google Chrome to pay my internet bill. (I picked Chrome because that is the most popular Windows browser, and I figured they would make sure their site was compatible with the browser most of their customers would be using.)
I started using Arc earlier this year on my personal Mac. There are multiple things I like about Arc and Iām sure I havenāt even explored all the features. Inactive tabs seem to hibernate really well. I have gmail as a favorite and it always feels open and ready when I click on it, meanwhile I donāt see a CPU hit with gmail, unlike I suffered with using Chrome.
Some sites fail on Arc (cvs prescriptions, avis) so I have to use safari, but I donāt like safari otherwise.
I have to use Chrome for development at work, sometimes Firefox.
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I use Safari as my main browser and generally love it. A few sites seem to have problems with Safari, e.go., Duolingo gets complaints that itās using inordinate amounts of resources under Safari and an occasional Windows-based bank or utility sites doesnāt work properly. Opening 40+ tabs at once with a single click and having them all refresh is how I do my daily internet surfing. It seems rock solid and problem free, though autofill sometimes fails to work as intended, Arc and Duolingo seem to get along OK and Firefox is my recourse when a site doesnāt work properly with Safari.
Firefox is my primary browser, but I have augmented it with a few security-focused add-ons, so I have found that some websites do not render and/or function as intended. For those websites, I use Safari, which I have augmented with fewer security add-ons. I only recently downloaded the DuckDuckGo browser, so I have not yet really used it very much, although I intend to keep it handy.
The poll should really have multiple questions: Main browser and alternative browsers. I use Firefox as my main browser. If I need to be sure a link works when copied from Firefox (for a user who doesnāt have my collection of cookies), I use it in Safari. I also use Safari to get second views of a site. Once in a great while, I do that with Chrome, to see how a site looks in the dominant browser. But that is very rare. To a first approximation, my browser is Firefox. To a second approximation, my browsers are Firefox and Safari. Only at third approximation do I use Chrome. The poll really doesnāt reflect my browser usage. After some thought, I answered with my second approximation, but thatās deceptive. Itās just that any answer is deceptiveā¦
My primary browser is Safari, but I use Firefox for some sites that sometimes doesnāt like Safari or to view the same site in two or three browser to sec how each render the pages, thatās where Chrome enters the ring (and very, very, rarely, Edge).
When is time to create websites I also have to check the development in all of these browsers, mainly because thats what my users regularly use.
I have been using Arc since Adamās article, as my primary work browser. I find the tab system helpful, and for work stuff I am not overly concerned about Google and other corporate tracking.
For non-work browsing, my primary browser is Firefox, with the Multi-Account Containers extension, where I have different containers for media, shopping, banking, etc.
And for random web browsing, I use chromium-ungoogled, a fork of the open-source Chromium project that disables all Google-related functions of the current version of Chrome.
Safari gets opened only for a handful of sites that donāt function with the privacy and ad-blocking extensions that are part of my normal Firefox installation.
I switched from Safari to Firefox several years ago because Firefox played better with a number of websites I needed to use. In the past couple of years, some websites just donāt work at all well with either Safari or Firefox, and I have to use Google Chrome with them. I rarely use DuckDuckGo.
I use Safari, but I have Firefox, Chrome, Vivaldi and Arc installed. I prefer Safari because even with a ton of tabs, it doesnāt use All The RAM, plus the sharing between my devices is very nice.
When I use Windows or Linux I use Firefox and that would definitely be my browser of choice if Safari wasnāt a thing on the Mac.
Chromium browsers work well on sites because most people use Chrome, but most of those browsers feel bloated to me. Plus, Googleās obvious dislike for privacy is concerning. I still keep those browsers installed for testing, though.
Have Safari, Firefox, DuckDuckGo & Arc installed. Donāt touch Chrome, spyware :-). Use Safari 80% of the time, with a home page of 100 Favorite iconsā¦.
Safari - I settled on this as standard on my Apple products because it seems to be leading the herd in protecting my privacy and security, it seems to have maintained feature parity with the competition, and its performance and efficiency has been fine. Then add on the fact that itās built-in, syncs via iCloud, and supports unique features like Handoff, and itās not hard to choose.
Chrome - I use Chrome almost exclusively for my job on my Wintel PC. But itās not uncommon that sometimes I want to get to my professional Google Hangouts chat space on my Mac. I access it via Chrome because 1) that way I donāt have to keep switching between Google accounts (work vs. personal), and 2) Chrome has a cool feature where their web apps like Chrome can run as what appears to be a standalone app, which puts an icon in the dock and supports Cmd-Tab (<ā Iām curious if Sonomaās new feature will allow the this feature to work on Safari)
Firefox - I didnāt include this in my vote because itās so rarely used, but sometimes I use Firefox when either 1) the other browsers are not working on certain annoying but important sites, or 2) when I wanted to get to my Dadās Facebook account, but my wife was using FB on Safari and I was using FB on Chrome. So it was just a third browser shared under the same login.
I use Safari for one particular set of websites, and Firefox for everything else. That particular set of websites doesnāt like one of my FF extensions.
I got rid of Chrome when I read about its being loaded with trackers etc.
Iām running High Sierra for my daily driver, so Safari has become nearly useless since I havenāt been able to upgrade it to something current in a long time. Opera works OK and is current enough for most things. I donāt make my living with my computer anymore, and Iām dabbling with OCLP on another machine.
Arc now; used to be Safari with occasional Firefox if S didnāt work on a site, or Chrome because some outfits demand it. I wish Arc had full-screen capability on the iPad.
I use Safari on my Mac book air, Mac mini, and iPhone for personal. I go back-and-forth between using Safari or Firefox on my MacBook Air, Mac mini, and iPhone for business with a different Apple ID. I flip to using Firefox when I want to use that as my browser so that I can do ābusiness workā on my personal devices. But that doesnāt last long. Ha
I use Google Chrome when Microsoft tech-support says I need to screen share with them to work through something. They are the ones who tell me to use Chrome.
Primarily: Safari (still as default and it is best on handling tabs and possibly fastest, cannot easily copy text without formatting is a negative); Vivaldi (as it is the best Chrome based browser, I think, but have had some odd things there - cannot look up words with three finger-click, but importantly I can see the times I have visited websites - impossible in Safari); Firefox (only useful browser for Facebook as there is only one plugin of any merit and it only works in Firefox to block everything irrelevant). Also: Brave (for some maps, it is quick and can block cookie popups); Chrome (for some stuff like handling Ubiquiti products and other places only ever tested with Chrome, but it is the most clumsy browser out there - even Google maps works better in other browsers); some odd browser no point mentioning as it is abandoned (but only for my Google maps); Opera (mostly for maps, Google accounts, Dropbox accounts etc, but should use Vivaldi more now); Arc (looks nice but find it hard to use).