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6 reasons why you should forget Chrome and use Firefox (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/technology

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Firefox is a great alternative to Google Chrome

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[–] azdalen 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can name a couple other reasons why FF is better:

I get way more lower-level control via about:config over internals than chrome's about:flags (i.e., adjust caches, buffers, networking strategies, GC thresholds, etc.)
I can fully disable newer ad delivery mechanisms like Service Workers and WASM at a core level (NOTE: while these were initially touted as ways to speed up the internet, they unfortunately are used mostly as ad-blocking and tracking circumvention measures now; its also easy enough to re-enable them temporarily if a site uses one for legitimate reasons).
Actual, no-kidding, site cannot override, auto-play blocking (via some about:config tweaks).

With the newer FF versions they landed some very nice speedups, but with some of the tweaks i've made, basically FF be zoom'n now 😅