So I switched from Firefox to Chromium.
I can't help but Chromium is just better. It feels generally faster (Chromium opens nearly 3 times faster), looks better and is clearer structured. Better extensions and it is more stable because every tab has its own process.
Only thing I feel bad about is Google. Is it easier for Google to collect my data with Chromium instead of Firefox? I mean, there must be a reason they made it open source.
>Auf gut Glück!
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>this triggers the Firecuck
I can't understand your thick nazi accent.
I had the same experience and I hate that it's true. Unfortunately, it made me switch 100% to Chromium as Firefox feels too slow/sluggish on my machine with only few addons. I hope this new FF version will be better
>Better extensions
That is wrong.
>Is it easier for Google to collect my data with Chromium instead of Firefox?
Yes.
>there must be a reason they made it open source
Yes. They didn't want to share their code to various components such as their implementation of adobe flash.
dogshit
switched over an half a year ago
yep, its better, cVim solved the problem of vimpirator
i have more battery time with chromium than ff
Why is Firefox so laggy.
Chromium has a clusterfuck of options that'll phone home to google unless you disable them. Other than that, Chromium's safe. The source code has been audited by multiple people. If you're still paranoid, run a network analyzer to check if it's phoning home.
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>hosted in ireland
why is google so jew
>Is it easier for Google to collect my data with Chromium instead of Firefox?
Yes.
If you want privacy from Google AND want a Chromium-based browser, get ungoogled-chromium.
Alternatively, if you rather use Mozilla's codebase but want a more responsive browser, go with Seamonkey.
Don't use Ghostery. Its a closed-source extension owned by an advertising company (just Google "Ghostery advertising" if you want proof). If you want to reduce tracking while keeping it sane, enable more filters in uBlock Origin and disable third-party cookies.
Ideally, you could use a cookie manager like Self-Destructing Cookies to reduce cookie-based tracking, but its more work for you. This specific extension is not available for Chromium. You can get a similar behavior if you configure uMatrix properly, but again, its inconvenient for most.
>Other than that, Chromium's safe. The source code has been audited by multiple people. If you're still paranoid, run a network analyzer to check if it's phoning home.
I'm sorry, but thats a blatant lie. Many people did the network analysis you call paranoid, here is one of them: thesimplecomputer.info
Chromium phones home almost as much as vanilla Chrome does.
Who would have thought that a fresh new install of 1 browser is faster than a browser you have been using for years. And updating, and installing and removing countless of add-ons and plugins.
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>Google Deutschland
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The article you linked explicitly states that the sniff test was done with default settings, with the exception of safe browsing.
Assuming you've disabled everything, chromium still phones home to google to update extensions and for DNS queries.
did you try enabling e10s before switching?
>billion addons installed
>it's slow you guys
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i switched when firefox kept crashing the entire browser if 1 tab had a problem. and now firefox is just now barely putting in multi process support. i think its in beta now a couple years late
>cVim solved the problem of vimperator
if only
>Assuming you've disabled everything, chromium still phones home to google to update extensions and for DNS queries.
And this is the biggest problem of pinging Google when the browser is opened. It can be used to relate the user's current IP address to his current cookies.
For example,
>you delete your cookies
>you open Chromium
>Chromium pings Google
>Google uses your IP to check if any user has that IP associated with him
>Chromium deanonymizes you.
It can make connections to Google even after startup, with all google settings disabled:
reddit.com
If you don't change your search engine, your browser will load Google javascript every time you open a new tab: github.com
I think Chromium, despite being open-source, just isn't as well audited as Firefox is. ungoogled-chromium is nice not only because of its patches (it will warn you if the browser attempts to connect to Google and block it), but also because it replaces every google domain in the source code with non-existing alternatives.
i use firefox because arc theme, but it pisses me off severely that they still haven't worked out screen tearing in full screen. Honestly I'd be fine if they pulled in mpv as a dependency and just used that, anything but this fuckery
Put your tabs on vertical tree on the same windows motherfucker. Do it motherfucker, DO IT.
What's better, huh, shitlicker?
firefox
Why change to that godawful style? fucking cuck company.
Nope, I will try it now.
There is LITERALLY no replacement for Self Destructing Cookies on Chromium.
Until one is made I can't switch.
Unfortunately SDC works by integrating with FF's cookie management. Chromium's isn't as advanced.
german law doesnt allow them to spy as much if they had their servers in germany
>$0.05 has been deposited into your Google wallet
>I can't help but Chromium is just better. It feels generally faster (Chromium opens nearly 3 times faster)
Even though Sup Forums has been saying this for years I've never had crashing or startup issues with Firefox and I use it fucking all day with shitloads of tabs and like 10k bookmarks.
Firefox has better color management and also better font management and display. Chromium (and Chrome and etc based on Chromium) use their own font rendering which really looks like shit on most any display.
lol there are still who uses firefucks?
>Even though Sup Forums has been saying this for years I've never had crashing or startup issues with Firefox
He never said it did, just that it's not as fast as Chrome.
So much this
>why is google so jew
no clue user
Both. I use both.
Firefox seems to be optimized for some sites/extension.
Chromium seems to be optimized for others.
For example, I use firefox for visiting torrent sites and "high privacy" browsing
I use Chromium for Sup Forums and anything media heavy.
Firefox is slow no matter the amount of addons.
>So I switched from Firefox to Chromium.
Cool story bro.
>It feels generally faster (Chromium opens nearly 3 times faster)
Firefox starts in under a second here and only performs noticeably worse on multi-megabyte framework-ridden excuses for websites that are going to burn my CPU up regardless.
>looks better and is clearer structured.
Great if you like the default theme. Or the default theme with a background image on the top bar. So great.
> Better extensions
Fuck no. The extension API in Chromium is terrible and you can't do anything outside of what the chrome developers thought of and considered worthy of implementing. You can customize basically nothing at all, and no tree style tabs for you.
> more stable because every tab has its own process.
You can do this in Firefox. In my experience those "stable" tabs on Chromium crashed a lot, but at least the browser can stay open to show the me cute sad mac icon and tell me something went wrong! Sure would be inconvenient to re-open my browser and have my session automatically reloaded in some rare situation compared to having the tab I'm working in crash every few minutes.
>Is it easier for Google to collect my data with Chromium instead of Firefox?
It literally phones home constantly and there's no clear way to turn it all off. Even if you do think you turned it all off it'll update and add another phone-home feature.
Looks pretty cluttered desu senpai
Why does anyone even give a shit how "fast" their browser is?
God forbid it takes an extra second before I can shitpost on my Sri Lankan astral scrying forum
No wonder we're all so fucked
It doesnt need to be instant, it just doesnt have to lag.
I hate chrome with a passion but Firefox has a really annoying memory leak. I put up with it because it has much better tab management.
>I put up with it because it has much better tab management.
Explain. Tab switching in Firefox is a lot clunkier than in Chrome, I noticed.
>Why does anyone even give a shit how "fast" their browser is?
Firecucks everyone.
There are some things I miss from the "good old day". The community, IRC (efnet/dalnet/qnet), the simpleness of hardware, the ease of making custom changes and fix gear, even things like the grey plastic aesthetic and diskettes because plugging them in was much more satisfying than the 4D gymnastics of plugging in a usb stick. Slow, unreliable internet browsing? Not one of them. Fast internet browsing and high quality streaming of pornography are some of the few things the internet has done right the last 15 years.
A fresh install of Firefox is far slower than if you had been using chromium for years. I know because this happened to me when everybody started shilling Firefox again.
The botnet bothers me, but not as much as FF being a clusterfuck and lacking all ability to have any aesthetic charm.
That image is over 5 years old dude.
My progression has been
IE6 -> IE7 -> Firefox (something) -> Safari for Windows -> Google Chrome - Firefox - Google Chrome, and soon I'll probably go back to firefox.
For one reason only. Chrome is so much faster for me, but I use a shit ton of tabs. Firefox only lets them get so small, and then you start to scroll pages. Chrome let's THIS happen.
Also, I'm 21, and have tab addiction. In Firefox, it was normal for me to have as many as 300 tabs open.
Results have barely changed. Glad I switched to Opera.
Opera does it right.
As an avid firefox user, it's true. I wish it weren't, but it is. Firefox is a complete and utter mess, and every single update they release makes it even worse. Chrome is also becoming slower and shittier (probably because FF offers virtually no competition) but not nearly at the same rate as firefox. I honestly find it hard to believe that firefox will ever recover. Instead of fixing the mess and returning the browser to its former glory they're just copying shit from chrome and employing more SJWs as if that's going to solve the problems.
The fact that Mozilla is trying to make Servo should be proof enough that FF is fucked.
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>It feels generally faster (Chromium opens nearly 3 times faster),
Yes, because it has 3 times less features and customizability.
>looks better and is clearer structured.
Agreed, though I feel it looks dated, they haven't updated the interface in any significant way for 10 years now
>Better extensions
I can't agree with this, a lot of vital extensions I use I could never find a suitable replacement on Chrome. Noscript for instance (I don't like umatrix), or tree style tabs.
>and it is more stable because every tab has its own process.
That's debatable
>Only thing I feel bad about is Google. Is it easier for Google to collect my data with Chromium instead of Firefox?
Kind of, they get your usage data and device fingerprint directly from your browser without you having to visit any webpage, but they can still track you easily regardless of browser since pretty much everything on the web uses googleapis or analytics.
Enabled e10 and the fucker is crazy fast now and added boolean to enable addons with e10. Thanks user
>posting from Firefox again
This is just about what happened to me too
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