As an exercise, I've been using Tor Browser as a daily driver on my personal laptop, and ended up with a 3-browsers approach:
* Firefox ESR -- For sites that are necessarily linked to my identity, such as HN and shopping. Sometimes this also gets sites that don't have to be linked to me, such as if I'm too lazy to copy&paste a link from HN into Tor Browser. (Keyboard switching/starting: Mod+F)
* Tor Browser -- Almost everything else. This is the bulk of my traffic, and innocuous, not "he just switched to Tor Browser, so must be doing something interesting". (Keyboard switching/starting: Mod+W)
* Chromium -- This is my total subjugation browser, used when more-private&secure options fail for something I really need/want to access. No ad blockers, but some awful DRM enabled. Current used only for one obnoxious video streaming service. I would like to get rid of this browser entirely. (Keyboard starting intentionally discouraging: Mod+P C H R O M Enter)
My vintage laptop can handle all 3 at once, just fine. Though I usually make them short-lived -- to reduce clutter, free compute resources, and clear trackers.
That's the personal laptop. My work laptops will partition browser use differently, such as for whatever the current Web development needs, and keeping all-day corporate SaaSes (e.g., GitLab, and mandated Web apps) open in one browser, while making another browser for short-lived public Web browsing sessions.
There's also a place for Tor Browser on the work laptop, for public browsing about topics that you don't want to hypothetically leak to competitors, but some companies will flip out if they detect Tor on the corporate network.
* Firefox ESR -- For sites that are necessarily linked to my identity, such as HN and shopping. Sometimes this also gets sites that don't have to be linked to me, such as if I'm too lazy to copy&paste a link from HN into Tor Browser. (Keyboard switching/starting: Mod+F)
* Tor Browser -- Almost everything else. This is the bulk of my traffic, and innocuous, not "he just switched to Tor Browser, so must be doing something interesting". (Keyboard switching/starting: Mod+W)
* Chromium -- This is my total subjugation browser, used when more-private&secure options fail for something I really need/want to access. No ad blockers, but some awful DRM enabled. Current used only for one obnoxious video streaming service. I would like to get rid of this browser entirely. (Keyboard starting intentionally discouraging: Mod+P C H R O M Enter)
My vintage laptop can handle all 3 at once, just fine. Though I usually make them short-lived -- to reduce clutter, free compute resources, and clear trackers.
That's the personal laptop. My work laptops will partition browser use differently, such as for whatever the current Web development needs, and keeping all-day corporate SaaSes (e.g., GitLab, and mandated Web apps) open in one browser, while making another browser for short-lived public Web browsing sessions.
There's also a place for Tor Browser on the work laptop, for public browsing about topics that you don't want to hypothetically leak to competitors, but some companies will flip out if they detect Tor on the corporate network.