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Chromium has a system setting to leave background apps from websites running after you close the browser. This is turn on by default. You have to proactively turn it off.
How is this not a deliberate accommodation to corporate spyware?
Any browser based on it is therefore suspect.
Never use default Mozilla Firefox, its bloated with privacy invasive options enabled by default
firefox ESR
what about konqueror?
I prefer the enemy which I know over the enemy which I don't know, hence using Firefox.
Firefox was bugging me as a developer to install a HTTPs Certificate on all of my dev projects where most of them will never reach the internet by blocking the password field, a banner which I couldn’t disable. Then I ditched Firefox and got back to chrome cause not even Google is that premature when it comes to limit their users to do things.
Floorp (a significantly better build of Firefox) isn't on PrivacyTests, lol
What a shame, since it's one of the better browsers right now. Built with security and privacy first, without all the nagging commercial bs of Brave.
there's a better build of Chromium called Ungoogled Chromium
I have my issues with all of them, but Mozilla becoming an adtech company in a clear (IMO) betrayal of their founding principles has led me away from them, likely permanently.
I agree with you about wishing Vivaldi would open source their entire browser, but (also IMO) their browser is excellent and I have switched to it full-time.
I took Edge for Linux for a spin out of curiosity a while back and I was surprised at how little it sucked TBH. But it's M$, I use Linux (partially) to avoid them, so I'm not going to use their browser. 🙂
firecrap, they sold out to the woketards.
Ram ram jay bhai
You forgot to mention the biggest con for Chrome, ad blockers are blocked because of Manifest V3.
Thank you. I'm currently researching Linux, as two of my three PCs that currently run Windows 10 are going to be switched to Linux, including my "daily driver". (The third is staying on Windows 10, offline.) All very useful info to know.
As mentioned before, the browser should be able to run and sync plug-ins that I rely on like a password manager and especially duckduckgo privacy essentials which make my pihole almost workless 😉 At least Firefox does it as cross platform browser on the pc. Chrome for some things that do not work on ff.
I was using Brave on my Zorin OS to get some detaching from Chrome but the sound went off somehow and couldn't fix it so I had to go back. I'll try Opera or Vivaldi (had good experiences with those on windows). Still, what I miss in other browsers other than GChrome is speech to text (directly from the mic) as a copywriter. Any thoughts o tools available out there? Thanks from the info and shout out from Tenerife (Canary Islands 🇮🇨 🏝🌞).
I don't understand. You recommend checking out Edge, which is not Open Source, but you say you do not recommend anyone uses Vivaldi because it is not Open Source.
I've been happy with Librewolf
Oh ! How can you missed Librewolf! It is based in Firefox and it is brilliant and cross platform
What I like about Firefox: (1) Firefox sync makes it quick to get your bookmarks and add-ons imported in on a new OS installation. (2) Loads of add-ons available, due to the popularity of this browser.
Sometimes I forget that the features on Floorp weren't native to FireFox
No clue what workspaces are.
Firefox does not have ersatz workspaces?
Fine by me – my OS has actual workspaces
Also: for how much longer will ad blockers work in any Chromium based browser?
Gnome-web's name is actually called epiphany.
Thanks for bringing up Opera being owned by Chinese Communists. I hadnt noticed that.
You often mention a browser not being secure but then talk about more secure browsers lacking syncing and workspaces are a desirable feature, though they are diametrically opposed and completely counter to more "private" browsers because they dont have those "features".
When Im talking to someone I usually ask if they want privacy so they cant be hacked an lose credit cards or other important data vs they dont want the govt (or just google, MS and apple) to know what they are doing because these are two different concepts.
As if there is any security for a system which allows you to view Youtube.
Thanks for the vid.
What about Thorium?
Old story. Opinions abound. The best browser is the one that you use regularly.
"Workspaces-TABS-" tomatoes toMAtoes– all the same CRAP…. problem — TOO MANY STUPID UNNEEDED crap on ALL of them… SIMPLE IS BETTER– PERIOD!!
Tab Groups are coming to Firefox soon.
CHROME is like letting " BIG BROTHER" have the keys to your house, car and everything else… STUPID… if one MUST use chrome- why not UNGOOGLED CHROME… but for me I'm staying as far away from MICROSOFT and GOOGLE as I can.. they are "big brother" in capital letters..!!!! (crooked spying thieving trash).. The software is good- it's the companies that are LOUSY and illegal in much of their actions.
Tried Vivaldi once– didn't like it AT ALL.. (not knocking it for others- I just didn't care for it-
)_ like LIBRE WOLF but can't see YT in dark mode on it.. (not automatically).. Liked ZEN too.. it's nice. BUT I think I'll stick wtih FIREFOX… enough of this "privacy" hogwash-and that's what most of it is.. NO one is going to cause much problem – the hackers are after LARGE companies where they can get into $$$ and other issues…Im just recently trying Zen, which is a variant of Firefox
FINALLY– a comparision I can BELIEVE and count on the info being TRUE…. just to let you know you are one of the FEW TRUSTED sources of info on here.. for me anyway!!
I use firefox with manually enabled hardware decoding for hevc and av1
Jay, why didn't you tell us which browser you use and why?
Have been using Firefox since 2006 and I am very happy with it.
Brave + firefox
Vivaldi, Zen, Opera, Floorp all seem to be good options. I don't care about open source…at all. Most of the best software out there is closed source.
Always Brave
Since I want a (desktop) web browser that's ONLY a web browser, I've stuck with Firefox. (Can't determine if Workspaces has the same functionality as Containers; Containers actually separate the web browsing amongst containers; looks like Workspaces is simply a tab grouping thing.) I have Librewolf testing as a secondary…
I won't use a browser that doesn't allow things like uBlock Origin to run. Having "about:blank" able to be the default for new tabs and at startup is a must, too. NO non-browser junk in my new tabs.
Why Firefox forks were not mentioned? Librewolf, Florp, Zen…
Recommending anything chromium based is just twisting the knife in the heart of the free internet.
FireDragon is pretty cool.
For Opera, I just wish they had Opera GX available for Linux.
No one talking about my boy FireDragon?