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SRWare Iron is a scam: http://www.insanitybit.com/2012/06/23/srware-iron-browser-a-... Basically any other privacy-oriented Chromium fork would be better. Iridium seems nice?
Thank you I did not know. Someone recommended it to me one day as an alternative to Chrome. Iridium is this the one? https://iridiumbrowser.de/
You could always switch to Firefox and use something like fastmail or protonmail. Did that a year ago, and actually it works better on mobile imo
Switching email providers is of little use for privacy from Google when everyone you correspond with is also using Google.
It's not about your twelve friends who use GMail, or even your hundred GitHub collaborators who use GMail. It's about the entire rest of the Internet, which is still there, living happily outside your bubble.
So I tried moving off Chrome 68 to Firefox 62 today, and it's quite noticeably slower than Chrome. Here's a couple GIFs from Gmail to show what I mean [1]. I start both of them at the exact same frame that I release the Enter key, so you can see exactly how much longer Firefox takes. Notice that it takes longer to render the Star/Important icons, too (including the very noticeable flash of placeholder text), not mere…
So I tried moving off Chrome 68 to Firefox 62 today, and it's quite noticeably slower than Chrome. Here's a couple GIFs from Gmail to show what I mean [1]. I start both of them at the exact same frame that I release the Enter key, so you can see exactly how much longer Firefox takes. Notice that it takes longer to render the Star/Important icons, too (including the very noticeable flash of placeholder text), not mere…
What about non-Google sites? I wouldn't be surprised if Google somehow deliberately made Gmail's interface slower for non-Chrome (or optimized Chrome for Gmail, whatever), similar to what they do with YouTube.
So I tried moving off Chrome 68 to Firefox 62 today, and it's quite noticeably slower than Chrome. Here's a couple GIFs from Gmail to show what I mean [1]. I start both of them at the exact same frame that I release the Enter key, so you can see exactly how much longer Firefox takes. Notice that it takes longer to render the Star/Important icons, too (including the very noticeable flash of placeholder text), not mere…
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I'm a huge fan of FOSS, but do you really think that you have full control over any modern piece of software? I think that underestimates how many people actually work on such a project and how many new updates we're getting on a daily basis. Nobody is more than %-wise controlling that stuff anymore. And this % is based on regular financial(!) investment in developer-hours but not in what software you use. PS: I just…
It's not about meticulously reviewing every commit for every project that I use, obviously nobody has time for that. For me the most important part is being able to fork the project if you want to add features or are unhappy with the way the original project is going, you don't merely have to beg the maintainers to add a certain feature, you can do it yourself. And perhaps more importantly I'm not screwed if, for one…
No-one dares to commit spyware to GitHub.
So I tried moving off Chrome 68 to Firefox 62 today, and it's quite noticeably slower than Chrome. Here's a couple GIFs from Gmail to show what I mean [1]. I start both of them at the exact same frame that I release the Enter key, so you can see exactly how much longer Firefox takes. Notice that it takes longer to render the Star/Important icons, too (including the very noticeable flash of placeholder text), not mere…
My preference for a well supported Chromium-based browser that's not Chrome would be to use one of the "Blink" based browsers: https://vivaldi.com https://brave.com https://www.opera.com Opera was purchased by a Chinese consortium, I'm not a fan of Brave's hijacking of ad spaces so my preference is currently vivaldi - which was founded by co-founder and former CEO of Opera and has been adding new innovative features…
Just to add my company's browser too, http://whale.naver.com/ Chromium-based, actively developed, and has Android+iOS browsers. You can use chrome extensions with it too.
More information about AppImage: https://appimage.org/
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> Whining about ad-blockers is simply being manipulative, it's trying to guilt-trip people into abandoning their self interest for free. Your attestation usage of "manipulative" is attempting to manipulate in itself. Like I said everyone is technically free to do what they want, but it doesn't change the fact that starving content producers of micro ad revenue goes against their wishes which in most cases deprives th…
> but it doesn't change the fact that starving content producers of micro ad revenue goes against their wishes which in most cases deprives them of their sole revenue source Choice of revenue source is, well, a choice. It's not like we're talking about some poor third-world kids, for whom the only choice is between starvation and building ad-powered content farms. It's all just people who asked themselves, "how can I…
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What does email have to do with switching browsers? Last I heard Gmail also works on Firefox.
Google uses non-standard extensions that only Chrome supports for Gmail and Youtube. For neutral email apps, Firefox runs perfectly fine. For Gmail, it will be slightly slower than Chrome.
Gmail is still okay once past the 2-3s loading but on YT it really test your patience every time you click on something.