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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Firefox + DuckDuckGo search engine

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is that specifically a browser issue, as opposed to a webscript issue for detection?

Is it still an issue in Librewolf, Brave, and Ungoogled Chromium?

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

Reminds me of Peacock's web client trying to get me to use something other than Brave browser, because Brave browser blocks their ads completely.

HAHA, nope.

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

So I've heard good and bad things about Firefox in this thread. The bad things being mainly the performance, and some sites just don't load...

So my question to you is, If I'm comfortably browsing on Brave with uBlock on, is it really worth the switch right now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Performance wise widely depends on the site used. Some sites (notably Google ones) are notorious for implementing anti-competitive behavior, where if their website is visited other than a chromium based browser, it slows down or a functionality stops working.

I mean its the whole reason why Microsoft switch from Edge Edge HTML to Edge Chromium/Blink.

The only good reason right now if you want to stick with Chromium based browsers such as Brave is you're heavily into browser based games as currently Chromium (and it's older brother, webkit) are the ones that have the best webgl performance, Firefox can do it but not as fast as Chromium and performance impact is very noticeable

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

Sometimes, simply changing the user agent string to that of Chrome is enough to make a site work again. For example Street View lags on Firefox, except when identifying as Chrome.

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

To me, the answer will always be "containers". Firefox containers were a game changer and I can never go back.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The founder of Brave had previously been fired from Mozilla due to his homophobia. Firefox is the more ethical choice.

But it's also perfectly fine for most web browsing, and is the only web browser I've seen with extensions like ublock available on mobile.

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[–] beppi 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using Firefox for years now and the only issue I've had is that at work I can't download particularly large files from John Deere operations centre so I use another browser just for that. Everything else, which is literally everything as far as I'm concerned, has been a better experience for me than Chrome ever was. Also Brave uses chromium which is cringe.

I'd say it's worth the switch as if you care about privacy, Firefox just has more tools available to this end

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

The performance bit is a lottery. Some people won't notice any significant difference from chrome. A few will have severe issues. For most the slowdown will be circumstantial or won't even notice.

Sites that don't load properly are few and far between. Mostly poor web developers who are doing something undocumented or applying outdated practices. Often is just targeting some behavior that works on Chrome but is not standard. Firing up Brave to open the odd page once in a blue moon is not too extreme to ask. Specially since it's the result of Google's influence on the W3C standards and forcing their way upon others.

Brave iscool and all. But everytime I open it I fear it's going to backdoor a cryptominer into my machine. It just gives that vibe.

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

Slowing down their ability to profit off of you, that is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a low-level Microsoft style move. Didn't thought Google will do it

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Is this real? Lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox is the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Of course it's slowing google. It's slowing their income

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