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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by rekoil »

londons_explore wrote: post #156
bad_user wrote: post #100

I keep seeing Edge mentioned as a worthy alternative, and I just don't get it. First, all Chromium-based browsers will eventually block uBlock Origin for the sole reason that they can't maintain Manifest v2 on their own, and they all rely on Chrome's Web Store anyway. This won't happen immediately because Manifest v2 will probably stick around for longer because of enterprise users, but the writing is on the wall. Th…

> they can't maintain Manifest v2 on their own The code for manifest v2 is really very simple (when you know that functionality for manifest v3 must remain available) - maintenance of it as an unmerged patch would be pretty straightforward. I suspect such a patch could be just 10's of lines of code - you're simply changing the condition list under which a web request can be blocking or not.

I thought the accepted solution was to just add Blocking WebRequest to the Manifest v3 implementation, which should be simpler than maintaining the entire v2 specification.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by idonotknowwhy »

girvo wrote: post #216
dark-star wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is that i wasn't marketing. It was because FF was dog-slow back then and Chrome was (still is) blazingly fast

Most non-technical users don't give a crap about how fast or slow their browser was: if they did, they would've switched from IE to Firefox the first go 'round. To downplay the fact that google advertised Chrome on google.com is to rewrite history, in my opinion.

Agreed, Opera was my far the fastest browser back in the day, and I was the only person I knew who used it lol

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by angch »

mariusmg wrote: post #184
nomilk wrote: post #73

FWIW I got annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen, and pondered how long it would take for a 10+ year chrome user to switch to firefox. The answer (on macOS) was 5 minutes. I was shocked how easy it was (and, frankly, how similar it was). When you first open firefox, it gives options to import all your chrome settings (including saved passwords etc). Super cool.

Yeah, you're switching browsers not 3D modelling software. It's easy people. Switch to Firefox today.

For my daily use, Firefox needs built-in passkey support. Can't switch for all uses yet. In the meantime, I'm running both.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by saidinesh5 »

These days i am switching between Firefox and Brave browser.

Missing functionality in Firefox:

* WebSerial/WebUSB - needed for IoT projects, flashing devices like drones etc..

* Firefox Android honestly feels a lot slower than Brave on my device.

* For some odd reason Google Meet has stopped working on my Firefox since last month.

* Touchscreen support by default on my 2in1 laptop.

* Super annoying to have to restart firefox whenever i do a firefox upgrade via. package manager

Missing functionality in Brave: * Proper Tree style tab.

* RAM usage is probably not as low as Firefox

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by abhinavk »

theGeatZhopa wrote: post #382
insanitybit wrote: post #281

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I don't use 3D modeling software, but I use a browser for like... 95% of my day. Any minor UX differences are going to be like nails on a chalkboard, given that. It's no wonder why people don't want to switch, really.

I don't know.. but.. it's the way people may use the computer. A former colleague used exactly one window, no matter if it's word or any other software. And most important: the other programs have to be closed, firstly, before switching to eg. browsing. Even my 85y old grandfather who bought his first computer with 73y is capable to use more then 2 windows at once. So for me, i work with chrome, edge and Firefox (mai…

>So.. basically. Each window is a room space in my brain for me and I store knowledge in separated rooms, so I know exactly where the tabs are I'm searching for. It's like a library where I always can look up something. Using favorites within the browser is not possible for me, because I just forget about them. Not so if I work with all the thousands of tabs open :)

I have a similar thing.

Firefox as the main browser for everything. I don't like Electron apps and since Firefox doesn't do PWA anymore, Edge hosts all those. Chrome for all the Google apps I have to use and streaming services (Chrome has a media hub in toolbar which can control multiple streams/PiP windows).

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by blibble »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #470
jacquesm wrote: post #455

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I've come across many anti EU persons and there are some broad categories: - the uninformed, they have no idea about how the EU came about or what it does, but they're against it anyway - the people on the receiving end of the regulations (anti-trust, advertisers, marketeers, bankers, data sellers etc). They have a very good idea about what it does, but it interferes with their preferred way of getting to more cash.…

Spot on. There's a lot to criticize the EU for and it's definitely in dire need of reform in some places, but overall it's a net benefit to all members despite the squabbles, that being anti-EU feels strange. The wealthy countries that chose never to join like Switzerland and Norway have their own valid reasons to not join (fear of regulation on banking, fishing and oil that's not in their favor) and still thrive due…

> But leaving the EU doesn't automatically turn your country into Switzerland or Norway like the UK expected.

this was never expected or mentioned by anyone

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by GTP »

OfSanguineFire wrote: post #309
GTP wrote: post #266

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He's using 'su' to switch to desktopuser, that's not necessarily, and quite likely not, an account with root privileges. 'su' stands for 'switch user', it's not just to become root.

He uses the term “root terminal”, he writes “Start a root terminal (or a normal one and then ‘sudo su’)”, and he says he only has a single user. One will naturally assume the worst, and in spite of repeatedly posting here he hasn’t exactly made much sense about his workflow and needs beyond launching the browser.

You're right, I missed the root terminal part.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by rekoil »

jacooper wrote: post #162
bilekas wrote: post #20

I love Firefox, but for some reason I can't pull away from Brave at the moment for my daily driver. Time will tell how long they can hold out against the changes that will eventually filter into chromium. I see the future of adblocking etc being put back to the network side, things like piHole should get a 'new' lease of life.

Brave won't be affected because brave shields aren't an extension and don't depend on the extension API.

Brave also won't be affected simply because they will maintain support for the specific APIs that Google removed in Web Manifest v3.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by jacquesm »

FergusArgyll wrote: post #485
jacquesm wrote: post #483

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Let's have some of those downsides then.

wages, adjusted for purchasing power see the wiki link. innovation suffers. more government intervention is needed. I'm not saying these are slam-dunk, but there are upsides and downsides to everything and one doesn't have to be a millionaire to be anti-regulation (I am not, and I am) EDIT: moved a period

> wages, adjusted for purchasing power see the wiki link.

That's a non-starter for me, purchasing power is relative to the society you live in, not an absolute that you can use to compare across countries unless everything is the same, and the USA and the EU couldn't be further from each other. Especially when looking at average rather than at say the part that is below the average distribution wise.

> innovation suffers.

Innovation suffers the world over from Silicon Valley, and more importantly the wealth concentration there. No other region in the United States has managed to come close to challenging SV, and neither did Europe (or any other region in the world, for that matter). Wealth concentration is like gravity.

> more government intervention is needed.

In what way? I really fail to see the connection here.

> I'm not saying these are slam-dunk, but there are upsides and downsides to everything and one doesn't have to be a millionaire to be anti-regulation

But it is perfectly possible to be a millionaire and to be pro regulation. Because out-of-control businesses are just as dangerous in the short term as out-of-control governments are in the longer term, the difference is that the businesses tend to live a lot longer (they are essentially immortal unless they really blow it).

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by simongray »

abenga wrote: post #476
simongray wrote: post #406

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Google only sells YouTube Premium bundled with a music subscription in my Spotify-dominated country, because they obviously want to use their large video platform to expand into music. Classic monopolistic behaviour.

I honestly don't see how that is relevant, unless your perceived value of just watching videos ad free is lower than whatever price they have set; you can ignore that feature, right?

It's a feature to only sell the bundled product at a much high cost?
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