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If you want a privacy-focused browser, Firefox is a better choice than Chromium without security patches.
by yAnonymous 10y ago
If you want a privacy-focused browser, Firefox is a better choice than Chromium without security patches.
- jbmorgado 10y agoThing is, at least on MacOS Firefox is quite slow compared to Safari or Chrome. Firefox also keeps eating more and more memory the more time it's open (Chrome also uses a lot memory, but at least it's stable). Firefox devs usually blame extensions for this (and I can believe them), but I really don't care who's fault it is, I just want my browser to work nicely. Also, these are present complains. Since at work I'm back on Linux full time, I tried to stop using Safari at home and use Firefox in order to use the same browser everywhere. But Firefox just didn't cut it. I'm now deciding between Opera and Chromium. They have their quirks, but at least they are considerably faster (on my MacBook Pro) and don't keep leaking memory like Firefox does. Which brothers me, because the best browser on paper when it comes to multi OS support and privacy is Firefox and would be my default go to browser in this case it weren't for these big (for me personally) problems it still has after all these years of the same exact complains from a lot of users.