God I wish chrome didn’t remove manifest v2 meow-tableflip

Here is the list of things that piss me off about firefox:

  • It is dogshit slow
  • It eats up a ludicrous amounts of RAM, which I wasn’t expecting since it’s one of the main things people make fun of chrome for
  • It crashes constantly
  • It tries to push it’s “AI” bullshit on me despite me turning it off on multiple occasions
  • It puts ads on my home page
  • It needs to be relaunched regularly because at some point it becomes too laggy to use. It even stops loading pages altogether
  • “Restore previous session” feature doesn’t work half the time so restarting the browser is absolutely terrifying
  • Profile management is a mess

Are there any alternatives? Is Brave any good?

  • dastanktal [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    That’s fair. I consider the privacy issues, but I really, really hate the user interface of Google Chrome itself and Brave is basically a copy and paste of their UI.

    I like Vivaldi for all of the additional features it offers users. I only use it for work-based stuff, so the privacy stuff doesn’t really bother me since my company’s already monitoring all of that or when I need a Google-based browser for whatever reason.

    If privacy’s a major concern, then I would probably just go to like, librewolf which is developed by the community to be as privacy forward as possible.

    You can also just add a few add-ons to make it more privacy-focused like no script and no cookies and ublock light.

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      12 days ago

      Yeah you seem like you know what the deal is. I basically posted that for anyone reading along in the thread. Quite a few people on this site have no clue about privacy and its kind of my hobby horse.

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        11 days ago

        You know, it’s kind of a bit sad that people don’t understand the privacy aspect of the internet. I wish people did.

        I understand, though, that people are busy and that privacy is just one of the many, many things we all have to worry about.