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Wouldn'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 Goog

by sk0g 6y ago

Wouldn'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 ago
Some 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 ago
  Do you actually use Stadia? If so, how do you like it ?
  - mcny 6y ago
    Thumper 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 ago
      I 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 ago
Wouldn't the EFF's extensions and uBlock Origin serve that purpose anyway?
- Marsymars 6y ago
  Not entirely, that won't replicate Firefox's containers. (Also suggest Cookie AutoDelete extension for the privacy-focused.)
  - RMPR 6y ago
    On top of that I also have privacy badger.
kd913 6y ago
I 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 ago
I 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 ago
  What 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 ago
    Pages take abnormally long to load. I have plenty of space on my SSD. Lots of free ram. I uninstalled and reinstalled.

by sk0g 6y ago

Wouldn'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 ago

Some 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 ago
Do you actually use Stadia? If so, how do you like it ?
- mcny 6y ago
  Thumper 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 ago
    I 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 ago

Wouldn't the EFF's extensions and uBlock Origin serve that purpose anyway?

Marsymars 6y ago
Not entirely, that won't replicate Firefox's containers. (Also suggest Cookie AutoDelete extension for the privacy-focused.)
- RMPR 6y ago
  On top of that I also have privacy badger.

kd913 6y ago

I 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 ago

I 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 ago
What 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 ago
  Pages take abnormally long to load. I have plenty of space on my SSD. Lots of free ram. I uninstalled and reinstalled.