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Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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Post by bad_user »

eudora wrote: post #104
mooreed wrote: post #15

Chromium Ungoogled repo [1] made it to the `top30` some days ago. I too have switched back to Firefox with the release of Quantum and have been very pleased. Frankly, I am amazed every day that Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox, & DDG.co are as good as they are. (aka: slightly inferior to Google regarding product polish, but truly "good enough" 98% of the time - without selling my future data down the drain) (edited: to fi…

I really want to use Firefox on Android, but I need a couple things: Desperately need the scrolling in Firefox to feel like scrolling in the rest of the apps. And I would very much like easy tab switching by swiping across the title bar thing, and the new tab/new incognito/back button behaviour. Pls Moz pls

Given that Chrome on Android doesn’t support extensions and thus no ad/privacy blockers, it might as well not exist and Firefox is for me the only game in town due to supporting uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.

Scrolling is irrelevant for me.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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Post by noisem4ker »

x0 wrote: post #93
user812 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"With a smarter Chrome, you will be able to do more than just look at a webpage. Imagine searching on Chrome for a singer you just heard, and having Chrome show you not just their bio, but also their upcoming concert near you and where to purchase tickets. With AI, Chrome will also better understand what you’re trying to get done, and help you do so faster. Vacation planning typically requires juggling multiple tabs…

Which is all great until it gets it wrong, and you have to fight against it. Just this morning I was trying to google a specific car problem, and it decided I was actually looking for a different problem. Had to rephrase my search many times for it to give me what I wanted. I wish there was a search modifier that turned off all the cleverness.

There used to be. It was called "verbatim" search. I can't seem to find it anymore.

Quoting the exact phrase gets you a similar result, though.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

omnimus wrote: post #135
mthoms wrote: post #60

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I disagree. Safari way outperforms Chrome on MacOS while using considerably less battery. I know, it's behind on some features/standards though.

I work with many not very technical mac users who mostly use apple provided apps like mail, notes, reminders and icloud. Only thing everyone installs is Chrome. Safari desktop is quite dead.

I do use Safari on the Mac (and Firefox for some things). Safari uses resources far more efficiently, it has a reader view, and its layouting doesn't make the page jump around quite as much as other browsers do.

Many websites are barely usuable in Chrome but acceptable in Safari.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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Post by pastununtrium »

interfixus wrote: post #136
pastununtrium wrote: post #128

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Interesting. Do you mind sharing your browser setup (Firefox?) and extensions setup , workflow?

My setup and workflow are unremarkable and will bore you to tears. Linux & Firefox on all my desktops. Firefox uMatrix'ed to within an inch of its life, and with one of those extensions that kill all cookies from a given tab as soon as you close it.. Every now and again I have to temporarily allow one access or another - some sites break if not allowed use of Google TagManager, for example. I keep a seperate profile…

No, it wasn’t that boring. Highlights were the email server running on a thin client with usb stick for storage LOL. Proxyign YouTube manually rather than vpn seems a little hasslesome though. Interesting setup, thanks!

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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Post by etatoby »

eudora wrote: post #104
mooreed wrote: post #15

Chromium Ungoogled repo [1] made it to the `top30` some days ago. I too have switched back to Firefox with the release of Quantum and have been very pleased. Frankly, I am amazed every day that Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox, & DDG.co are as good as they are. (aka: slightly inferior to Google regarding product polish, but truly "good enough" 98% of the time - without selling my future data down the drain) (edited: to fi…

I really want to use Firefox on Android, but I need a couple things: Desperately need the scrolling in Firefox to feel like scrolling in the rest of the apps. And I would very much like easy tab switching by swiping across the title bar thing, and the new tab/new incognito/back button behaviour. Pls Moz pls

Brave browser has been my default browser on Android.

It's as fast as Chrome (if not faster) as it uses the same rendering engine Blink; has all the features you mention; has builtin Ad and privacy controls; is developed by Brendan Eich's company (Mozilla's co-founder); but is fully open source and a fork away, if the company starts pulling odd moves.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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Post by k__ »

tialaramex wrote: post #81
k__ wrote: post #42

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Multi-Account Containers is from Mozilla too. As far as I know, Facebook Container is just more comfortable to use. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/multi-account-co...

For MAC you are responsible for curating the decisions about what's inside each container. That's a bunch of work. The more complicated or fast changing the sites in a container, the more work. Facebook Container comes with the curation done by its maintainers. This is probably less trouble than it might be because it's not as though developers who use Facebook are unheard of.

You can pin every domain to a container. This is a one time action.

After one day I had it up and running.

- Google - Facebook - Work - NSFW - Misc

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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Post by jakecopp »

mooreed wrote: post #15

Chromium Ungoogled repo [1] made it to the `top30` some days ago. I too have switched back to Firefox with the release of Quantum and have been very pleased. Frankly, I am amazed every day that Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox, & DDG.co are as good as they are. (aka: slightly inferior to Google regarding product polish, but truly "good enough" 98% of the time - without selling my future data down the drain) (edited: to fi…

> Bringing back the "Don't" in "Don't be evil"

What an introduction to the repo of that readme.

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