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Firefox vs. Chrome Showdown (2024) | Should You Make The Switch?



Explore the battle of browsers! With over 2.6 billion users, Chrome dominates, but is it the safest? Discover how Firefox stands up …



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  2. I use both: firefox at home and chrome at school.

    There's not much of a choice at school, but if there were, I'd go with Firefox 100%. It's so much cleaner and smoother. There's little comparison when it comes to convenience.

  3. You talk about how Chrome/Google makes money and you focus on advertising. But not one work about how Firefox makes money! Is this video sponsored by Firefox? The majority of Mozilla Corporation's revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships and distribution deals around the world. So companies like Google pay Firefox to have them as their default search engine, its still around ads! Sure there are many good things about firefox and my comment is not meant to distract away from there, but it is only to show the bias in this video.

  4. I've used Firefox for over 20 years. I saw Firefox invent tabbed browsing and add-on extensions. Firefox traces its lineage back through Netscape Navigator to the first internet browser, Mosaic.

    Firefox doesn't spy on users, it's owned and operated by a non-profit (Mozilla) in Australia and it's completely open-source. It also works perfectly, is fast and very stable. It also supports re-opening entire windows if they're accidentally closed with Ctrl+Shift+N instead of opening some "incognito" window. Firefox doesn't have a special "incognito browsing" setting because it's already rock-solid when it comes to privacy. That's more than good enough for me.

    Sure, Google Chrome might look better in benchmarks but let's be honest here, even the most rudimentary and outdated PCs run both browsers just fine with any differences being imperceptible to even the most performance-hungry human being. Hell, my mother's HTPC runs Firefox perfectly well with an old AMD FX-8350, an RX 6500 XT and 8GB of DDR3-1333 on an old Gigabyte 990FX motherboard.

    Internet browsing is NOT a hardware-intensive task like gaming or productivity work. The speed of a browser is more linked to the speed of your internet connection than the actual hardware that you're using. Sure, I'm in a privileged situation as my main gaming PC has an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, 64GB of DDR4-3600 and an RX 7900 XTX but that isn't all that important because I'm not typing this on that monster, I'm typing this in Firefox using a much more modest piece of tech.

    I'm typing this on an OLD (13 year-old now) Acer craptop from 2011 with a first-gen AMD Llano-based A8-3500M which is essentially a Phenom II X4 CPU with a 1.5GHz base clock (2.4GHz turbo clock) and an old TERASCALE 2-based (Pre-GCN) IGP called the Radeon HD 6620G. That ancient machine was only considered a mainstream craptop when it was released, not a high-end one but it can amazingly run Skyrim at 720p low settings and get ~40FPS without major stuttering. Do you really think that A BROWSER is even remotely close to a legendary AAA-game like Skyrim when it comes to hardware intensity? Here's a hint: No, it's not even remotely close. That's why tablets can browse but can't game.

    I don't need my data mined to further enrich an evil corporation bent on world conquest like Google or Microsoft and since all browsers not called Firefox are lazily built on the Google Chromium kernel, I'll stick to Firefox until it dies or I die. I like the program, I like what Mozilla stands for, I'm not supporting some evil corporation and it works perfectly. What more could I ask for?

  5. Never watched your videos so I do not know you. But when you mentioned norton in introduction… eeeh why you do this to yourself. How can I trust any single world when you mentioned that garbage right away.

  6. There's a problem with your RAM consumption benchmark : you uses a single tab and didn't reduce available system memory. Firefox will use as much RAM as it can get, but if there's no RAM free it won't mind. Chrome does require a lot of RAM, period.

  7. Chromium is making it so extensions cannot access their API anymore meaning that there will be no more add block on chrome or any other chromium browsers everyone move to Firefox!

  8. I have been using Firefox for many years … however I have recently gone over to Chrome. Here are my reasons why …
    1/ Some websites insist on Chrome / Edge etc
    2/ Multi tab support 🙂 I use Chrome's tab groups to organise my tabs and allows me to expand / contract a group. BTW Chrome does have tab scrolling, you just need to turn it on
    3/ Firefox sometimes has non standard CSS styling. I guess all browsers have their differences, but it seems a lot of developers aim for Chrome support. … Also a lot of new features are only supported in Chrome.

    I have not found the memory, speed or even the security problems you stated in the video to be a problem.

    I have the same addons I had in Firefox … NoScript, Ublock Origin, Dark Reader, Zoom Page WE, Video Speed Control and others. So for me it feels the same.

    Chrome also has customisation, themes, background picture (auto update) and a lot more.

    … Firefox needs to update a lot of things. I feel it used to be ahead of the race, but has fallen behind.

    Another browser I considered was Opera, which also has tab groups. In the end I went for Chrome because it allows the groups to be named.

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