How is jpeg xl “hostile”, it’s just a new format. Does Chrome really need to support every new image format?
A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team
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#32Firefox is unusable on Linux. Way too slow. But Brave browser is very snappy. It's the fastest chrome fork, and has great features, like vertical tabs, which have become essential to me.
I am only using Firefox on Linux (ok Chromium for some crappy Webex stuff) and it is working great.
Your problem may come from your hardware combination together with Wayland/X11.
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#33Firefox is unusable on Linux. Way too slow. But Brave browser is very snappy. It's the fastest chrome fork, and has great features, like vertical tabs, which have become essential to me.
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#34The problem is there are almost 0 alternatives beyond Firefox so if you don’t like their UX you’re stuck. All the “new” browsers are just chromium skins (edge, arc, etc.) Are there any real competitors building a new browser?
Frankly Firefox is barely a hedge against Chrome. When it comes to things like JPEG-XL they are in lock step with Chrome. Safari ended up being JPEG-XL’s unlikely champion. I kind of wished Apple would release Safari for other platforms again.
HN is weirdly obsessed with jpeg-xl. The logic for removing it totally made sense.
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#35Webmasters should really fight back and show annoying popups when the user agent equals Chrome. These popups could nudge the user towards e g. Firefox. Perhaps EFF.org could provide a reference implementation of such popups.
"We detected you are using an insecure browser. Please upgrade to a secure browser such as Mozilla Firefox." would do it. :)
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox is my daily driver as is Linux. It is perfectly performant.
From my experience hardware acceleration has been quite lacking on Ubuntu (especially noticeable when watching YouTube).
It just needs a little bit of configuration in the about:config tab, it works just fine with VAAPI!
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#37Missing in the list:
- https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-will-let-you-opt-out-of-ch...
Google Will Let You Opt Out of Chrome 'Forced Login' (2018)
Remember? They tried to force everyone to login completely.
Quote from article:
The tweak was made to address a privacy uproar over the latest iteration of Google's browser, Chrome 69. Earlier versions of the browser let you log into a Google service, say Gmail, without logging into Chrome. But the tech giant decided to change that in Chrome 69, which arrived earlier this month. Signing into a Google service via the browser will now automatically log you into Chrome as well.
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#38> to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser
Or use Brave.
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#39The problem is there are almost 0 alternatives beyond Firefox so if you don’t like their UX you’re stuck. All the “new” browsers are just chromium skins (edge, arc, etc.) Are there any real competitors building a new browser?
There is Ladybird.
Nice. This is legitimately a new browser. Hadn’t heard of them. Will check it out.
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#40The problem is there are almost 0 alternatives beyond Firefox so if you don’t like their UX you’re stuck. All the “new” browsers are just chromium skins (edge, arc, etc.) Are there any real competitors building a new browser?
I have been using Brave for about a year. Dont miss Firefox or Chrome.
I have a serious question about Brave. I would be glad to use it, but I am a bit scared of the fat that it is linked to a crypto (I didn't dive in the tokenomics, but maybe the team is driven by the money ? or other shady things ?), and also the fact that I go ads for this browser. Getting an ad for the browser make me question: what are their incentives ? Why would they invest money to attract people ? What is their business model ? The fact that it's a for-profit, just like the other browsers (except Firefox), make me think that they might push things for money, not for the users despite all their claims of being so focused on the user safety, privacy etc.