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Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by makeitdouble »

feep wrote: post #166
parhamn wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure it can. A chromium browser has an arbitrary number of chromium processes (e.g tabs). The root process quickly becomes irrelevant performance wise for average users. Even if you have the simplest tab unloading strategy (like Tab suspender) built in, you'd beat Chrome. But, unloading tabs isn't a safe thing to do in web-standard browsers but fine in niche consumer ones. Its not really word-smithing either, in all…

Can we have a link to your chromium build with unloading? Or is it private?

Probably this (from parhamm’s profile)

https://synth.app/

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by kbrosnan »

dijit wrote: post #126
rcMgD2BwE72F wrote: post #101

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I haven't encountered any issue with Firefox for Android for years. Here's how you can fix this all at once: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/g3tyfu/how_to_swit... Google is intentionally breaking support for Firefox on their websites. Other just don't care and support monopolies.

Firefox does seem to be untested for a lot of websites. You can't do video calls with Teams in firefox for a really clear and obvious example, but I encounter breakages quite often and have to switch back to Chrome. Safari suffers the same, but I get the impression people are testing safari more than Chrome.. but I hear so many complaints on hackernews about safari, I suspect at some point Chrome penetration will fin…

Teams should be working in Firefox around now. https://www.onmsft.com/news/teams-meetings-set-to-support-2x...

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by lioeters »

sphars wrote: post #88
wereallterrrist wrote: post #54

Just... give Firefox a shot people. Please: https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png

Just downloaded FF this week and started using it as my primary browser as I start to transition from Chromium-based browsers. May I ask what you did to configure your browser that way (extensions/settings)? I like the look of it, and looking for ways to customize my setup.

  uBlock Origin
  Sidebery
  QuickCut
  SingleFile
  Popup window
  Firefox Multi-Account Containers
  Copy All Tab Urls

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by Centigonal »

feep wrote: post #166
parhamn wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure it can. A chromium browser has an arbitrary number of chromium processes (e.g tabs). The root process quickly becomes irrelevant performance wise for average users. Even if you have the simplest tab unloading strategy (like Tab suspender) built in, you'd beat Chrome. But, unloading tabs isn't a safe thing to do in web-standard browsers but fine in niche consumer ones. Its not really word-smithing either, in all…

Can we have a link to your chromium build with unloading? Or is it private?

on a recent version of Chrome, you can navigate to chrome://flags/#high-efficiency-mode-available to enable tab discarding.

You will then have to restart Chrome and enable the feature in settings.

more details here: https://bgr.com/tech/how-to-use-chromes-new-energy-and-memor...

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by t0bia_s »

goodpoint wrote: post #135
tiffanyh wrote: post #16

Don’t forgot about https://librewolf.net/ It’s Firefox with every privacy setting turned to max.

Rather use the Tor Browser. It does much, much more in anonymizing you both by using Tor and by reducing fingerprint.

I hope you are not using Tor for login to HN.

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by parhamn »

feep wrote: post #166
parhamn wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure it can. A chromium browser has an arbitrary number of chromium processes (e.g tabs). The root process quickly becomes irrelevant performance wise for average users. Even if you have the simplest tab unloading strategy (like Tab suspender) built in, you'd beat Chrome. But, unloading tabs isn't a safe thing to do in web-standard browsers but fine in niche consumer ones. Its not really word-smithing either, in all…

Can we have a link to your chromium build with unloading? Or is it private?

Min is cool and I don't want to plug here (to keep my original comment informational).

I've heard good things about this extension (but use at your own risk, I don't install extensions besides uBlock myself):

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-suspender/fiab...

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by b1ue64 »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #46
tiffanyh wrote: post #16

Don’t forgot about https://librewolf.net/ It’s Firefox with every privacy setting turned to max.

There is also WaterFox, which I quite like as a secondary browser. https://www.waterfox.net/

WaterFox is owned by an advertising company called System1

https://system1.com/press/system1-welcomes-waterfox

Re: Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

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Post by csb6 »

csb6 wrote: post #167
password4321 wrote: post #159

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What is the easiest way to use Ladybird?

You have to build from source. The repo is here [0]; there is a link to build instructions in the README. It is still experimental, but has an active community working on it.

Oops, forgot to drop the link. It is: https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird
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