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Firefox looks so much better than Chrome (tux.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Both OP and the author of the linked post explicitly say "Chrome", not "Chromium", and seem to imply those are the only two choices available to users.

If it is based on Chromium, it has to deal with what Google throws at them.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-different-from-chrome/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Fair point, but the engine is important.

I understand their blog post, and if I were to build a browser today, I'd probably do the same.

But that doesn't mean this situation isn't problematic. It's similar to car-centric infrastructure: in this situation, for any individual, choice X makes sense, but that will make the situation even worse for the whole population. A cumulation of many tiny Prisoner's Dilemmas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I wrote Chromiun in the description too. Chrome is simply what people use.

Plain Chromium, even with all GUI settings, all degoogle policy configs and flags enabled, contacts Google like hell.

I tried googeeteller and its scary.

Have not tried Vivaldi for a long time, but its fingerprinting resistance was nonexistent, it is filled with useless features and has no container support, so nah.