What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
I’m using Firefox and Kagi’s Orion browser [1] on my Mac and Safari on iOS.
Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
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#32What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
I like Vivaldi myself.
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#33What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
Firefox? Weird question. I haven't even installed Chrome in the past 7 years. Firefox is fast (but I obviously don't know if Chrome is faster) and it never crashes.
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#34What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
I use firefox full time, it works great for me.
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I feel like people sleep on safari, especially on Macs.
JavaScript Chrome developers did a good job of convincing people that Safari is the new IE. I love Safari on macOS. I love the pinch/zoom with the tabs. I love that private browsing mode, at least seems to, keep things contained to the tab they started with. e.g. if I open facebook in a private tab then open new tab and go to facebook, it’s going to make me login.
Significantly better battery life too. Like hours.
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#38Without the suggestion to install an adblocker, this is not credible advice.
Does the ad blocker prevent leaks of your information? I know it blocks a use of your information against you (targeted ads). And any external source is a potential leak (e.g. the kinds of things that CORS is supposed to reduce). But does an ad blocker specifically leak more, or just reduce the incentive to collect that information?
A full-featured ad blocker (uBlock Origin original, not the neutered Lite version that runs on Chrome now) will intercept requests at the network level and prevent your browser from requesting the advertisers' JavaScript code. Your browser not only won't show the ads, it won't run the code that was supposed to show them or even send a request to the advertisers' servers.
This blocks most existing tracking methods. The only thing you're not protected from is first-party tracking by the site you're actually visiting, which is impossible to fully protect against.
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#39What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
Full time Firefox user. I run hundreds of tabs for days on end and need to restart it every week or so. Well worth it to not use Chrome. Need to open a site in Chrome about once a month
The upcoming version has "Unload tabs" built in to the context menu. That should result in restarts limited to updates.
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#40What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
I feel like people sleep on safari, especially on Macs.
I tend to use Safari on my mac, but I will say that it evaluates CORS slightly differently than other browsers so that sometimes I have to disable CORS protection to get a site to work that works fine in Chrome or Firefox, and it's the only browser I've used where I expect to have it crash hard with a SEGFAULT or something every once in a while.