Web Browser General - Fuck Chromium. All my homies hate Chromium.

[Frederica Bernkastel]

I use Brave with a debloat script to get rid of all that slop that comes with it. I believe chromium browsers will always be better for security given that there have been more high level CVEs against Firefox.

Brave, because its chromium based, has some really strange upstream decisions such as having over-sized context menus, and not having the ability to change the colors of incognito tabs. One of the problems with chromium browsers is they don't give power users a lot of control.

 

[They were once men]

Is there benefit of using librewolf if i'm using a custom privacy js file with stock firefox?

 

[Hellwalker]

Is there benefit of using librewolf if i'm using a custom privacy js file with stock firefox?

If you think that your user.js suffices when it comes to privacy then I don't see why there should be Really, the main selling point of Librewolf is that it's pretty good privacy wise out of the box. What with all the bloat and telemetry being disabled by default, resistfingerprinting being enabled, and uBlock Origin already installed. Pretty much the same reason Brave is recommended.

 

[Hellwalker]

Okay, big shocker for me personally but I have recently decided to try out Brave once more and I'm actually enjoying it. I guess I was a bit too harsh last time and cared too much about shit that doesn't even matter (Though, if some people here are anything to go by, there's no such thing as being harsh to anything Chromium related). However, the main thing that I really hate about Brave (And pretty much any other browser. I had the same issue with Mullvad and Ungoogled-Chromium) is the simple inability to assign the sites that I actually want to have cookies stored and have everything else deleted when I close my browser. Why? Just FUCKING why? Is this shit really so fucking hard to implement? This is a VERY useful tool for privacy in browsers and Librewolf is the only one to have done it. Why can't Brave do it? Your a fucking privacy browser. You can literally fucking copy other people's homework. IT'S RIGHT THERE!!!

If anyone else is thinking the same thing, there is a place to allow specific sites to store cookies but they still fucking get cleared on exit if you select the "clear cookies on exit" option for deleting history. Something that doesn't happen on Librewolf.

 

[Hellwalker]

I have now switched to the Mullvad browser (Maybe temporarily) because, for some reason, Brave just stopped blocking ads?

 

[Nitro!]

Tor Browser is now surveying users to turn on PPA (analytics) in the application. You may recall this being enabled by default from Firefox 128.



You can tell Tor Project not to niggerize my browser up:

Clearnet survey link
Onionsite survey link

 

[ifxztykgdnfvmsdjhfbSD]

>The scenario outlined above is purely hypothetical
There goes the neighborhood. Brave has Tor network integration, right?

 

[cutefluffwon]

>Brave, 73 votes
So anon, you're not genuinely retarded and using the botnet shill lion browser. Are you? Switch to Furryfox already.

 

[Hellwalker]

Back on Librewolf again. It feels nice to not have to login to the Farms every single fucking time I open the browser. I also don't have to deal with the odd slowness that was completely insufferable on Mullvad Browser. Still don't know what caused that but fuck if that drove me away to it. Everything is so nice and smooth now.

Librewolf is perfect.

 

[TerribleUser09]

Google Chrome here. I was using Firefox for pretty long time with some bouncing back and forth to Edge but ultimately Chrome provides "quahlity". Foremost, I am using Google account to store passwords that I am using on several computers and for ease of use I prefer this over connecting to my NAS with Keepass database to do the same thing but with less workarounds.
I don't really care about "muh privuhcy" stuff anymore.

You can call me nigger now.

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

I cannot use Firefox or any of their forks in good conscience anymore, because Mozilla is a bunch of nigger faggots these days and have shit up their products fast.
I've been using Brave for years at this point and it runs just fine for me. I have failed to find a truly "good" browser these days, although anything Chromium based runs much better and with lower resource usage then Firefox or its forks so its all I would consider.

 

[Kennedy Space Center]

I was using Firefox since day 1 on the Internet. Then I've moved to Chrome. Now I'm back with Firefox on all of my devices so that's start and end game. Just use Firefox.

 

[cutefluffwon]

I cannot use Firefox or any of their forks in good conscience anymore, because Mozilla is a bunch of nigger faggots these days and have shit up their products fast.
I've been using Brave for years at this point and it runs just fine for me. I have failed to find a truly "good" browser these days, although anything Chromium based runs much better and with lower resource usage then Firefox or its forks so its all I would consider.

>because Mozilla is a bunch of nigger faggots these days and have shit up their products fast
Any facts to back that up? The source code is readily available, because I am assuming here your only real complaint here is the "scandal" around the data collection. Which, you can easily disable.
Brave being Chromium based means it just works with a lot of apps, unfortunately I still need to use Chromium for Zoom and other spyware.
>runs much better and with lower resource usage then Firefox or its forks
Sounds like a codec/setup issue to me. Recent Firefox updates have enabled ffmpeg hardware decoding by default for Intel since 115, and in the latest 136 update for AMD too (for <136 versions you needed to go too aboutonfig and set media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled to true).

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

>because Mozilla is a bunch of nigger faggots these days and have shit up their products fast
Any facts to back that up? The source code is readily available, because I am assuming here your only real complaint here is the "scandal" around the data collection. Which, you can easily disable.

Open source is a total meme in reality anyways, no one outside of the most autistic Gentoo user is reading the source code to ensure that nothing malicious is in there.
Chromium is open source too, so I don't get why Linux users especially love Firefox so much when its an inferior product that requires lots of fucking around with hacks to function well? Wait a minute, that sounds like Linux!
It all started with Brendan Eich being kicked out of Mozilla for personal donations. The rot has gone far back for a decade. Mozilla becoming an AI and Ad company is only the end result.
Lets also not forget that Mozilla started Rust, the premiere Tranny production machine.

Sounds like a codec/setup issue to me. Recent Firefox updates have enabled ffmpeg hardware decoding by default for Intel since 115, and in the latest 136 update for AMD too (for <136 versions you needed to go too aboutonfig and set media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled to true).

This is something I have noted consistently every single time I have compared Firefox to a Chromium browser, for about a decade, on Windows, Mac and Linux. I don't think that's a "setup issue". It loads pages at least twice as slow while raping system resources and draining the battery much faster. I keep Floorp around as my emergency Firefox browser, its decent but has all the Firefox problems above, I haven't used it in months. It does have some nice features Brave doesn't have (like having compact tabs and reasonably sized context menus) but its probably not going to make me switch.
Firefox still doesn't have hardware decoding for my laptop with a new Intel CPU, if you toggle that on in aboutonfig it would cause the browser to crash on startup and require a full profile nuke to get going again. On every Chromium browser I've tried it just werks. Granted Firefox isn't the only app with problems, mpv also would shit itself until very recently.

I love how Mozilla refuses to adopt web standards like PWA's, when you're worse then Google at adopting standards, then you have serious problems.
Lets also not forget that Mozilla owns 2 For Profit companies, "Mozilla Corporation and MZLA Technologies Corporation", and basically abusing the Not for Profit status of the Mozilla Foundation for Tax reasons.
I hope Google pulls their money out of Firefox, would instantly kill the browser, and Troons would have no idea what to use.

Lets not forget the real reason people originally ditched Firefox for Chrome is that it was a total resource hog that would rape your PC if you opened more then 5 tabs on it, and Chrome was in comparison lighter and faster (still true today, albeit less so). Not a Google conspiracy.
We can thank KDE of all places keeping KHTML (the grandfather of the modern web engines) open source with GPL.

 

[TerribleUser09]

Lets not forget the real reason people originally ditched Firefox for Chrome is that it was a total resource hog that would rape your PC if you opened more then 5 tabs on it, and Chrome was in comparison lighter and faster (still true today, albeit less so). Not a Google conspiracy.

I confirm. Despite my best efforts to use Firefox daily, it was notorious to break the app several times a week just by browsing the web.

 

[Hellwalker]

Open source is a total meme in reality anyways, no one outside of the most autistic Gentoo user is reading the source code to ensure that nothing malicious is in there.

I pretty much disagree with everything you said except for this part. I think it's very stupid that people advocating for open-source software say that one of the main selling points for it is, "You can look through the code yourself and ensure that nothing in it is malicous. If there is something you don't like, you can remove it yourself". I (Try) use open-source software any time I can but even when I heard this, I pretty much just went, "Ok...?". Seriously, do these people actually expect the average Joe to look into the code themselves when the most dominant of selling points they offer is that open-source software is just as good, if not better, the closed-source counterparts and that it doesn't require you to learn new things too much?

This doesn't even appeal to the autists (The only ones who would do this, as you said) because if they would go into open-source software to modify it themselves, then they wouldn't need to be sold on anything.

 

[CEO of Autism]

Null is right, Brave's memory management is fucking awful. A few tabs open are enough to bring it to its knees.

 

[Fraygorryt The Wise]

Null is right, Brave's memory management is fucking awful. A few tabs open are enough to bring it to its knees.

That's just any Chromium-based browser for you.

 

[Hellwalker]

Went back to regular ol' Firefox with this hardened user,js applied with it and I've been very happy with it. Had to change a couple of things in the user.js itself but it wasn't much of a problem. Being signed out of sites on shutdown isn't very much of a problem anymore since I just shortened the password of my password managers database for quicker access. Maybe my experience with Mullvad would've went better if I just did that, lol.

Only thing that sucks about it is that some extensions that I've used don't work anymore. Specifically, Buster and Greasmonkey. Something is affecting them but I'm too lazy to find out on my own. The Github page provides a link to an issue that was opened up about it but it no longer exists. Those extensions didn't work on the Mullvad Browser either so I'm sure it's just one setting but it isn't that much of a problem for me that they don't work. I just switched to Violentmonkey (I probably should've always been using since this I think Greasemonkey didn't have the ability to update userscripts) and I can solve captchas manually.

 

[Hellwalker]

I'm retarded. I don't know how it took me THIS long to come to the perfect Web Browser but I'm both glad and ashamed that I have found out.

It's literally Librewolf and the same hardened user.js that I use. I don't know why in the fuck I didn't think to combine them before. I'm actually retarded for that. Now I get to experience never having to login into sites/saving cookies to a specific site that I actually want to use cookies for and all the very thorough hardening from my user.js that I would've experienced when applying it to any other Firefox fork.

I finally no longer have to hunt and switch to other Web Browsers again. It's finally over.