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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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

Chrome does have a use, namely Selenium and automation.

I'm guilty of having Chrome on my PC, as I need to nerf over my favourites to Firefox.

Firefox is my browser of choice on my Google Pixel 7, but then again no doubt it makes little difference.

I just choose to use a VPN, so any targeted adverts are blocked regardless of the profile built up from my browsing habits.

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

You can use the Gecko webdriver for Selenium

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

you're lying to yourself if you think mozzarella foxfire does'nt collect data. They may use it in a different way, but they still collect data. You have to jump through a bunch of config to disable their telemetry, which most users won't do.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I used chrome for less then 1 day ..it always sucked

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The me from 6months back would be onboard with this idea, I don't really recommend firefox anymore. It's a bloated mess run by a very questionable corp. I had to move to PaleMoon, it's the only acceptable browser for me now.
Here are some links for your reading pleasure...
Mozilla - Devil Incarnate
How to choose a browser for your daily use?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You getting fked here or there. So don't think it matters that much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I recommend Chromium Ungoogled if you can't let go of the Chromium ecosystem for some reason. It's an open source fork of Chromium and puts pretty much all the power in the users' hands, so much so that to get certain features to even work you have to configure it. It is also fully compatible with the Chrome app store, if you want it to be.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/releases

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I would love to and have tried. But I've found too many times that Firefox just doesn't work for some sites. And unfortunately some of those sites are needed for my work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Alright. Then please tell me a way to circumvent site compatibility enforcement and I will gladly ditch any chrome-related browsers (that most sites are enforcing to use it nowadays) for the beloved fox on fire.

-EDIT And what do you have to say about this? https://youtu.be/_JNg4Ox2Hvc?t=512 .Its a very recent video and has some interesting takes about firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I might consider it if they ever implement a modern sidebar like the rest of the others.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (14 children)

On a Windows machine absolutely. On MacOS, why not trust safari? The battery management for Safari is fantastic.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Al my passwords are in google. I just don't have the energy to migrate, frankly. Chrome does what I want, and the password manager is seamless enough that anything else is less-robust and more work.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I used to play around with a lot of internet browsers and executed on top of that scripts in greasemonkey, add-ons, plug-ins, ... . But the trustworthiness of these things were not clear for me anymore. So now I'm at using Edge Chromium. Better the devil you know 🙂

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Firefox is alright, it served me adequately after Opera got sold off, but Vivaldi is so much better.

Even though it's based on a fork of chromium Vivaldi has an extremely strong focus on innovation as well as privacy, they've commited themselves to working around Mv3 for instance and their in-built ad-blocker is absolutely top notch but you can also install uBlock Origin to work with it in tandem on their desktop browser if you want.

And even though it's extremely feature rich, with speed dial, ad-blocker, password vault and side bar being some of their out of the box features all their power user functions are opt in through the settings where you can choose to stack your tabs vertically or enable mouse gestures (couldn't live without these) and a whole bunch more, it really offers everything you could think of and probably a whole bunch more.

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