Highly recommend brave (with all the crypto nonsense shut off), it's a pretty fast browser, nice features and works with chrome extensions. I've used it successfully for the past 3 or something years
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#242Mozilla get a lot of funding directly from Google for making Google the default search site [0]. Seems to me that this may be a problem going forward if Mozilla continue to allow ad blockers in Firefox. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go...
It's been like that for 20 years.
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#243Use whatever makes you happy. But it's worth pointing out that Chrome and Chromium are developed by Google. The whole point of using Chromium as a browser developer (Brave, Edge, Opera, ...) is to have Google own and take care of all the difficult bits, drive the technical roadmap, and decide on what is and isn't going to be in the next version. So, you don't gain much by switching to those as the teams behind those…
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not just about being able to pay. Free YouTube: You can watch with ads and you are tracked. YouTube Premium: You can watch without ads but you're still tracked. YouTube with an Ad Blocker: You can watch without ads and without being tracked. Google's largest chunk of revenue comes from ads. Being tracked simply means you'll be shown targeted ads in other areas apart from YouTube if you pay them. They shouldn't c…
Youtube can still track you even if you use an ad blocker.
They can, but do they?
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious what use case you are looking at for over here? I don't want to make any assumptions. I'm wondering if what you are looking for might be covered by the functionality of tab containers.
I wrote a command line tool which tells me "Now look at the following page" and opens it a browser window with the url. Works with Chrome, but not with Firefox.
Just use `--new-window` and it will work just fine :).
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#246FWIW 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.
The way profiles (or tab containers) work in Firefox sucks compared to Chrome honestly.
I could never find a way to open in the correct profile from external applications.
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#247Unfortunately, Firefox isn't quite keeping up. One issue is that for me at least, Firefox crashes too often, and when it does, the entire browser goes away, not just the tab. That's annoying. Another issue is that something seems to be lacking performance-wise. I messed around a bit with Invoke AI, and the canvas is painfully slow even on modern, high end hardware. I thought it was just the code sucked. Nope, it's si…
I've used solely Firefox for years and I can't think of time where it has ever crashed. What triggered yours?
The "silky smooth on chromium" is because people code specifically for chromium, the way we used to for IE. Usually its a small change, but no one bothers, and we pretend like a browser engine mono-culture is fine and dandy.
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#248Honestly, in Google's eyes, nothing of value will be lost here. And Firefox gaining some market share will help get regulators off their back, so it's a win-win
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#249I 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…
I see some hope in Vivaldi. Even though chromium based, I don't see them getting more and more intrusive into your life and machine like the other big tech are doing. Plus it is also open source now[1], so no different than firefox, etc. even in that sense.
The other place I see some hope left is the "ungoogled" chromium browser. Though the amount of hooves you need to jump in order to get a stable release (corresponding to official chrome) on a windows or mac is preposterous, you eventually do get a portable, non-intrusive and much kosher version of chrome browser which isn't bad.
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#250I've found two major roadblocks when switching browsers:
1. Migrating your passwords, 2. Migrating the bookmarks.
If you use an external password manager (Bitwarden, 1Password, even KeePassXC) and an external bookmark manager (Raindrop is excellent, Pocket is barely usable) then switching browsers becomes very easy – to the point where you could switch to a new one every month if you wanted. The browser is no longer a place where you store your stuff, it just becomes a UI to browse the internet.