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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It is a shame that Firefox won't support WebSerial. That is the only reason I have to use Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Ublock is building a manifest v3 compatible extension, in case you want to compare the effectiveness of v2 vs v3 Ublock.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (26 children)

i haven't used chrome in over ten years. i could never understand why anyone the least bit nerdy would use it, but that's autism for ya

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I have run Ungoogled Chromium, Thorium, and Vivaldi, and all of them perform much faster and better than Librewolf.

And Librewolf is my daily driver.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

FF has been my daily driver for at least a decade, but I gotta test my web apps in everything :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I kinda prefer Vivaldi for testing chromium-based browsers. I guess MS Edge would be a similar experience too nowadays

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Vivaldi is so pretty, I hide pretty much everything from the interface and use it for making product demo and training videos. I considered using it as a daily but I've got FF set up just the way I like it.

I draw the line at installing edge on my linux machine! I just figure that if chrome works then edge works and haven't had anyone report any issues.

Safari is the real pain in the butt..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Honestly? I'm lazy, my adblocker still works so that's enough for me

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Always has been.

[–] gigachad 135 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You guys were friends with Chrome?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seriously! Even back in 2007 I was all "chrome is faster? Great, now Firefox has some competition" I never switched to chrome. You couldn't pay me to use that privacy nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used it when it was new and google didn't seem so bad. Google even sent me one of the original Chromebook prototypes (CH-47) before they launched as a product for sale. i don’t know when it started to become clear that google was going evil, but around 10 years ago it was really obvious where things were headed.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I moved to Chrome after years of using Firefox when FireFox was having tons of issues that Chrome resolved.

Most of them are fixed now. Though it still has issues with selection boxes on some websites forcing me to use Chrome again for them. At least they're government sites, mostly, so there's no ads needing to be blocked... Yet.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

If you haven't used Firefox in 3+ years, its improved a lot. For 99% of people its interchangeable with Chrome except for being in the Google ecosystem.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really enjoying Zen browser this week, may be my new favorite. The tab handling is VERY weird at first though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TIL, it is Gecko-based but more than just another Firefox clone.

https://news.itsfoss.com/zen-browser/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kinda neat, right? What do you think of it so far?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Since you asked I had to download it and give it a try. I liked how the installation was simple, just one command, no need to download an installer and follow a wizard. I personally prefer Linux but I'm on Windows now for reasons. Overall it feels familiar but different, I still need more time with it, but I do like the Zen Sidebar feature already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh, I thought you had already.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's sad that firefox only exists to keep chrome from becoming a monopoly, around 80% of Mozilla's income is from Google to keep google.com the default search engine.

I tried Vivaldi and honestly it looks and feel amazing, but the issue is that it's chromium based, but if mozilla put more effort in actually working on firefox, I would love it even more. Wish librewolf had a mobile app

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[–] praise_idleness 24 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I've been using Librewolf for quite a time now. Any other recommendations? No reason. Just got brow-curious.

Zen wasn't all that good. Not polished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I love Librewolf too, and if you're looking to explore other options I do recommend giving the Mullvad Browser a go. It's another firefox fork but I believe it handles fingerprinting in a better manner. Similarly, it comes with uBlock Origin built in but also NoScript. I'd likely use it as my primary browser but I don't really care for NoScript and removing the extension would ultimately defeat the fingerprint resistance of Mullvad.

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