Chromium has better features, but with google announcing its plan to ‘drm the internet’ I 'm not sure if it’d be a good idea.
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After using Firefox for nearly a year, I am using Google Chrome again and it feels much more snappier/fluid, and also uses less power compared to firefox (power draw is often near idle or outright idle), font rendering seems better on Chrome too. Only issue is that it doesn’t support hw video decoding (vaapi) on wayland, but I just use MPV for that. Firefox does support vaapi even on Wayland but it’s outrageously less efficient than mpv.
Firefox if you take the time to harden it. You can also use librewolf which is hardened OOTB.
I only find Chromium useful for very browser-intensive things like browser games
Can you explain what has to be hardened?
better privacy
You need to do a lot of stuff like disabling telemetry, installing addons like ublock origin as well as making a few tweaks in about:config just to name a few.
“need to”
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Firefox, but if you do need a chromium based browser try ungoogled chromium
If you want to have choice in the future you should go with Firefox. Google is close to (or maybe already did) make Chrome equivalent of the Internet Explorer.
The better thing to what was with IE is that majority of websites still work fine in Firefox and people who stick to Chrome just do due to mostly ignorance.
I’ll give you one reason where Firefox blows chrome out of the water: multi account containers:
Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple accounts
That way you can seamlessly have multiple accounts for a specific site open side by side (for example, your work and your personal mail with the same mail provider). Especially amazing if you’re an IT contractor who works for multiple clients.
This is super useful for any sort of development work - you basically get unlimited, separate private windows that you can log into stuff separately.
I use it for multi account switching on Reddit, I still do a lot of scam bot fighting over there and being able to easily switch between several users is really helpful.
As an employee of an MSP, Firefox containers are a lifesaver. No more incognito mode every time I need to check another client’s Office 365!
Hi fellow IT contractor, thanks for sharing! That is awesome. Just installed and works like a charm. I was using Chrome profiles for this, but having all in one window is much easier.
Yeah it is also good for a bit more privacy on the internet. I have separate containers for Amazon websites, Google, banking etc. Even more powerful tool if you pair it up with a VPN - can have different VPN locations on each container so break up attempts at tracking and profiling you across the web.
Yup, and there are dedicated extensions to manage them individually paired together with noscript. I have one of each for the couple major sites I occasionally use to contain all their tracking.
This is one feature I literally can’t do my job without. Used to have 3 separate browsers installed + opened at the same time for all my various Azure accounts till FF saved the day!
This!
Honestly, its personal preference, there’s different forks of each, base Firefox is good, if you want a more private fork try Fennec or Mull. With chromium the only two ive heard good privacy things about is Brave and Cromite (a fork of Bromite, a project that looks like it got discontinued as there hasn’t been an update since last December). Honestly try both and see which you prefer.
Sorry, I just assumed you were asking about android specific apps. For Apple, Safari is decently private, Apples strong suit is that everyone knows Apple hate sharing things, so while you can’t be sure about how much apple collects, you know they’re not giving data to 3rd parties. For computer I’d say base Firefox, (or Librewolf if your okay with the lack of auto updating) or Brave.
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Personally, i’d day neither. Mozilla is on Google’s payroll, so if you’re trying to battle Google’s monopoly, it won’t matter if you pick Firefox or Chrome (or any forks or derivatives)
If you need to pick, i would say Firefox, and Librewolf if you want a browser which is more privacy friendly and has saner defaults.
If you want to battle the monopoly, you should pick a browser that’s not based on Gecko, Blink or Chromium. Something like Ladybird, BadWolf, LuaKit or Lynx if you’re into that
Mozilla gets Google’s money only because Google wants to avoid antitrust charges, so they have to help keep Mozilla alive as competition. It doesn’t mean Mozilla is in Google’s pocket or has any strings attached at all.
How isn’t Mozilla in Google’s pocket, if the only reason they’re still around is because of Google funding them?
They could switch to Bing any time
Firefox with containers for day to day use. Chrome for google docs. Safari for sites where I don’t want to have to go through the login process every time I open a page.
Firefox! This is the way!
Do not use any Chromium based browser. Full stop.
- If you are on Mac, I recommend Orion (Webkit based, but Mac only ATM).
- For every other platform, including Linux, Firefox.
Honestly, Google has gotten so aggressively evil I’d strongly recommend cutting yourself off from all their products entirely. Consider Kagi instead of Google search and Proton instead of GMail. Other offerings also have alternatives that won’t spy on you, steal your information, or treat you like both a criminal and a product instead of a customer.
Orion is available on iOS and iPadOS as well, and I second Kagi search
I recommend Brave search, it’s an independent index so you get different results. Then you can add !g to search Google and get something else, you get more coverage
It also has an AI summary that’s often good enough to give you answers without clicking links, which I like
At first i was hesitant with kagi, like: Why would i pay for a search engine? Then i realized, on the others i am the product anyway, so privacy vs little bit of money. So i am a kagi user now! At the same time, kagi will keep getting better and better (just checked their blogs how much they upgraded in a year.)
TL;DR: Anone who sees this, give kagi search a try!
Firefox
Absolutely. Vivaldi is great. I prefer it to FF. They definitely won’t incorporate DRM changes unless it’s completely not modifiable from the chromium core, and if they do how big a deal is it to change browsers? Switch then.
I go for firefox. If a particular site is broken in there I open edge just for that task and I’m done with it
