Honest question. What's wrong with chromium? I understand why google/ms and other corpo flavours are bad, but why is base chromium bad
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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Mostly having the centralized backbone of chromium makes people uncomfortable since it can do a lot from behind the scenes if it wanted to. But the raw base form is pretty much fine AFAIK, it's just very rare among browsers to do so.
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Ladybird should add another option at least, I'm curious to see it in action.
Then there’s Safari on iOS….
Arc and Orion are the best browsers I’ve used. GNOME Web looks nice, too.
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Peter Parker saw more clearly when his glasses were off.
Firefox is indeed amazing but since chrome is so widespread a lot of sites primarily focus on supporting that - and thus i cant always use firefox. its a bit annoying
Multi-Account Container with proxy support is a killer feature for me. I keep Brave as fallback just in case for PWAs.
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Linux setup (PopOS) - Home and daily driver.
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Firefox (hardened): My go to everyday browser
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Firefox Beta: For financial sites that don't like hardened Firefox.
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Firefox Nightly: For other sites that don't like hardened Firefox.
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Brave: for use with just one site for reading with Dark Reader extension.
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Firefox Developer's Edition (hardened): Another option, as needed.
Windows setup - Home. Really only use for disc media ripping and burning.
- Firefox (hardened)
Windows setup - Work
- Firefox (hardened): Daily driver
- Chrome: For when something doesn't want to work on hardened Firefox.
I didn’t see LibreWolf here anywhere. I’ve been going back and forth between that and Arc lately
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