I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me

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    1 year ago

    Question: what do people have against chromium? I understand not liking Chrome specifically, but what’s the issue with non-Google chromium? I use Brave on my PC and phone, and Edge for work.

    As for Firefox, I love and appreciate what they are doing and what they stand for. I tried using it and had one bad experience, where I was doing some web dev and encountered a bug that drove me crazy trying to fix, only to find it was a bug with FF itself. So I switched to Brave for development, and then I liked it and haven’t switched back. So, not to say that one little bug “ruined” FF for me, I just haven’t had any reason to stop using Brave.

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        1 year ago

        That’s fair, but FYI for ad block specifically, Brave has it built in rather than as an extension so it works regardless of manifest v3. I think the same is true for Vivaldi but I can’t say from experience how it compares

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      what do people have against chromium?

      Dunno about others, but I run older hardware and Chrom* was a resource piglet for me.

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        1 year ago

        Unsing older hardware here too. Had to move to pale moon because even Firefox struggles with 2gb of ram.

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        Which is ironic, since when Chrome was released, it got traction for being slimmer and a lot faster than Firefox.

        It probably doesn’t help, that browsers had to become (almost) full operating systems and runtime environment.

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      For me it’s just ignorance. I don’t know if chromium offers what I’m looking for but I do know Firefox does.

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      Several things:

      • Owned by for profit company
      • Browser engine is dominant
      • Said company is in the ad business, so they don’t have the best incentives for privacy
      • Said company are well known for pulling stunts to get people using their browser (i.e. using web rendering techniques that is fast on their browser but painfully slow on others)
      • Having a monopoly in an area is bad for us users

      Meanwhile, I’m glad folks on here are very pro-Firefox as well as not shitting on Chrome users. I was afraid it was going to be thls (except replace “invented Comic Sans” with “uses Chrome”) https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html