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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by haunter » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:23 AM UTC

>Automatic blocking of autoplay videos

And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao

Also a lot of these claims are so-so imo.

"Lighter on system resources"

"Speedier website browsing"

I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't.

Anyways I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by happymellon » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:25 AM UTC

baisq wrote: post #5

Mozilla? Thanks but no thanks.

You sound like someone who would then suggest Brave.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by SaulJLH » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:26 AM UTC

below43 wrote: post #7

I find Edge is a nice alternative

Edge is better than Chrome, & better than FF in many respects, too.

Don't let the "M$ teh hacking my dataz!" tin-foilers dissuade...

Performant, good mix of features, stable, solid compatibility, & flexible.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by formerly_proven » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:29 AM UTC

haunter wrote: post #21

>Automatic blocking of autoplay videos And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao Also a lot of these claims are so-so imo. "Lighter on system resources" "Speedier website browsing" I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Anyways I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

> I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't.

Last time I checked I had a few thousand tabs open with Firefox and it doesn't do anything except use memory.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by andyjohnson0 » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:29 AM UTC

baisq wrote: post #5

Mozilla? Thanks but no thanks.

Care to expand on your aversion to Mozilla?

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by formerly_proven » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:30 AM UTC

SaulJLH wrote: post #23

below43 wrote: post #7

I find Edge is a nice alternative

Edge is better than Chrome, & better than FF in many respects, too. Don't let the "M$ teh hacking my dataz!" tin-foilers dissuade... Performant, good mix of features, stable, solid compatibility, & flexible.

Something Edge has going for it is that it's the only browser on Windows where hardware acceleration seems to consistently work.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by barbs » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:37 AM UTC

formerly_proven wrote: post #24

haunter wrote: post #21

>Automatic blocking of autoplay videos And then this very site has an automatic playing video in the article lmao Also a lot of these claims are so-so imo. "Lighter on system resources" "Speedier website browsing" I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Anyways I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

> I usually have 60-70 tabs open across 5-6 windows. Firefox absolutely shits itself all the time but Chromium doesn't. Last time I checked I had a few thousand tabs open with Firefox and it doesn't do anything except use memory.

A few thousand tabs?!?! Come on mate!

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by frankzander » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:37 AM UTC

Using Firefox all the time ... Brave seems also to be a reasonable alternative. But I just don't like the Dev tools in Chrome ... The FF ones are way better (IMHO). At the end it seems so that FF isn't blocking a lot of tracking by default while Brave do so. But FF with uBlockOrigin is a good match for privacy.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by boudin » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:40 AM UTC

SaulJLH wrote: post #23

below43 wrote: post #7

I find Edge is a nice alternative

Edge is better than Chrome, & better than FF in many respects, too. Don't let the "M$ teh hacking my dataz!" tin-foilers dissuade... Performant, good mix of features, stable, solid compatibility, & flexible.

I wouldn't touch Edge because I still remember the days when IE was dominating the market. As much as I despise Google being the one now, I do not miss those days and do not trust Microsoft to do anything good if they were in this position again. So you can make fun of people concerned about privacy, but history proved there's a lot more concerns to have regarding Microsoft

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by sph » Sat, May 28, 2022, 9:44 AM UTC

I honestly want to ditch Firefox and try a Chromium browser for a minute [1], but I'm stuck on Firefox because it's the only one with a killer feature: send a tab to/from iOS and my Linux desktop.

I skip Chrome and Edge for privacy reasons, Brave have a crappy and buggy sync feature that I don't know what OSes it supports, but not my combination. Can't send tabs with them. Vivaldi doesn't have an iOS port. Impossible to do with Chromium.

Firefox can send tabs to all my machines, and I use that feature multiple times daily, such as finding a cool article while I'm sitting on the couch and sending it to my desktop so I can read it later. Mr. Eich, if you're around here, please please fix syncing tabs in your browser, it's the only thing stopping me from switching honestly.

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1: I quite like Firefox, but it's in a dying spiral, and I'm starting to see broken sites. The Web is such a complicated nightmare "protesting" won't change anything, and forking neither, because it's too bloody complex. Chromium has won. Our only hope is Mozilla takes their head out of their arse and start working on their browser instead of faffing about and making small, meaningless changes every release, but I don't see that happening any time soon.