Comment by Drybones
2 months ago
IDK where you have been for the last decade, but Firefox has not been the better option since Chromium was made
Disliking Google Chrome proper is one thing, but Chromium is superior in every way. Rendering, features, speed, memory management
Chromium has more than a few flaws that I'm sure you can discover if you choose to. Here's an incident that I cannot forgive:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909
Show me a piece of software without flaws and I'll show you either a liar, or perhaps the program "ping".
> Chromium is superior in every way. Rendering, features, speed, memory management
Being faster, prettier and using less memory[1] is pointless if the browser won't let me block all ads.
I mean, it's like comparing a turd sandwich made with expensive exotic bread, and a cheese sandwich made with cheap grocery store break.
Sure, the one has great exotic bread, but I don't want the turd it comes with.
So, yeah, it actually doesn't matter how much prettier, faster or smaller web pages are with Chrome, at least FF lets me (currently) block almost anything.
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[1] Chrome beats out FF in exactly one of those, and it's not the memory or speed. Turns out ads take up a lot of RAM, and slow down pages considerably.
The person is asking for the better option.
I coincide with the person, by the moment Firefox is the better option, the comparative form is confusing.
-1 tab containers
Please elaborate on ”features”.
Does chromium have non-google sync?
Chromium based browsers have non-google sync. Vivaldi implements their own encrypted sync service and I believe Brave does as well.
But I am talking about browser feature support, not stuff that can supplemented with an extension like a password manager.
Firefox has poor support for modern web features including video processing and encoding which makes it very bad at web conferencing/video calls or in-page streaming.
Firefox's developer tools and console is also much worse and missing important features.
Other features Firefox is missing or has poor support for compared to Chromium are WebGPU, WebTransport, Periodic Background Sync, and parts of WebRTC. Plus various APIs for web serial, badging, and Web Share are missing partial or full support.
Firefox still doesn't have functional HDR for images and videos including AV1.
Oh I thought you meant actual chromium browser.
Those seem rather marginal features from my pov but of course once you need them, you need them, I guess.
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