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what web browser do you use and why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me

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[–] Cowabunghole@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Question: what do people have against chromium? I understand not liking Chrome specifically, but what's the issue with non-Google chromium? I use Brave on my PC and phone, and Edge for work.

As for Firefox, I love and appreciate what they are doing and what they stand for. I tried using it and had one bad experience, where I was doing some web dev and encountered a bug that drove me crazy trying to fix, only to find it was a bug with FF itself. So I switched to Brave for development, and then I liked it and haven't switched back. So, not to say that one little bug "ruined" FF for me, I just haven't had any reason to stop using Brave.

[–] Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

manifest v3

[–] Cowabunghole@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That's fair, but FYI for ad block specifically, Brave has it built in rather than as an extension so it works regardless of manifest v3. I think the same is true for Vivaldi but I can't say from experience how it compares

[–] fratermus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what do people have against chromium?

Dunno about others, but I run older hardware and Chrom* was a resource piglet for me.

[–] naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Unsing older hardware here too. Had to move to pale moon because even Firefox struggles with 2gb of ram.

[–] aksdb@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Which is ironic, since when Chrome was released, it got traction for being slimmer and a lot faster than Firefox.

It probably doesn't help, that browsers had to become (almost) full operating systems and runtime environment.

[–] peveleigh@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

For me it's just ignorance. I don't know if chromium offers what I'm looking for but I do know Firefox does.

[–] mFcGlNBcfr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Several things:

Owned by for profit company
Browser engine is dominant
Said company is in the ad business, so they don't have the best incentives for privacy
Said company are well known for pulling stunts to get people using their browser (i.e. using web rendering techniques that is fast on their browser but painfully slow on others)
Having a monopoly in an area is bad for us users

Meanwhile, I'm glad folks on here are very pro-Firefox as well as not shitting on Chrome users. I was afraid it was going to be thls (except replace "invented Comic Sans" with "uses Chrome") https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html