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If you are concerned about privacy of chromium-based browsers, I don't think anything would beat just straight chromium. However, on my machines I just main fi
by kd913 6y ago
If you are concerned about privacy of chromium-based browsers, I don't think anything would beat just straight chromium.
However, on my machines I just main firefox with edge as a backup. Mainly because edge is already pre-installed on my Windows machines so there isn't really much point downloading and installing an alternative which does the exact same thing. Especially if it's only for use on chromium specific websites.
It's not like you can remove edge from Windows 10. Why would I install Vivaldi, Google Chrome or Brave?
- sk0g 6y agoWouldn't Firefox with all the inbuilt tracking protection, etc be better than Chromium? I seem to remember some bug reports of Chromium sending requests to Google servers too.
- mcny 6y agoSome things like Facebook multi/group (2+) user video chat or google stadia require some form of chromium. I use Firefox for everything else.
- mech422 6y agoDo you actually use Stadia? If so, how do you like it ?
- mcny 6y agoThumper is unplayable on my flex 14 and Comcast WiFi but it is very YMMV. Thumper is a simple game but it requires you to basically turn left, turn right, or shields up very quickly. It is basically a reaction time test so very susceptible to latency. I had earlier played assassin's creed in the private beta thing on an older laptop on Verizon FiOS. I did reach for the Ethernet cable most of the time but iirc it was serviceable even on WiFi because assassin's creed is less affected by the occasional latency spike. That or maybe Verizon FiOS where I was before in the city area has fewer connection problems than Comcast further out of a town.
- mech422 6y agoI tend not to play shooters, so latency (hopefully) wouldn't be that critical for me... I do worry about how fast it would eat up bandwidth though...
- Paianni 6y agoWouldn't the EFF's extensions and uBlock Origin serve that purpose anyway?
- kd913 6y agoI main Firefox on all my platforms. I would prefer to use it wherever possible over any chromium browser. Sometimes I get forced to use a chromium based browser for specific sites. In those cases I use edge for Windows because it's built-in and can't be removed anyway. If I was just commenting that I would prefer to use chromium for privacy reasons but it's not worthy of installing separately for the few chromium specific sites I need to visit. I don't see how having a preference over this is downvote worthy. Isn't that the entire purpose of these kinds of threads?
- needAnAltHN 6y agoI have technical issues with Firefox, it might be my computer, but after spending an hour trying to solve them, I gave up. Anyway that's why I'm here.
- reciprocity 6y agoWhat kinds of technical issues were you experiencing with Firefox? Please feel free to elaborate. I have significant experience with the browser and there are very few user issues I've not been able to resolve.
- needAnAltHN 6y agoPages take abnormally long to load. I have plenty of space on my SSD. Lots of free ram. I uninstalled and reinstalled.
- yoavm 6y agohttps://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium would probably be better than a simple Chromium.
- Marsymars 6y agoLast time I looked into it (when Chrome's update behaviour on Windows broke the proverbial camel's back), there was no good way to automate updates of plain/ungoogled Chromium on Windows systems.
- aasasd 6y agoStill no package managers on Windows? Seems ridiculous that every program has to include its own update manager—on MacOS too but it at least has brew-cask.
- ta17711771 6y agoChocolatey has U.Chromium
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoChocolatey has Brave too, and other Chromium-based browsers : https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=tag%3Achromium https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=tag%3Achromium .