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Chrome/Chromium or firefox? Why I prefer firefox over Chromium based
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browsers
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2021-11-09 11:56:11 EET |
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<a href=".."> back </a>
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<h2>Heads up</h2>
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Just to warn you,
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<strong> this post is a bit bias </strong>
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, I personally prefer firefox, so my answer will obviously be firefox,
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yes, firefox is not the king of privacy, but I still think it's great,
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here's why.
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<h2>Less bloated</h2>
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Firefox is less heavy and less bloated, it's not as much of a resource,
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space and in general firefox is more light and is smaller than chrome,
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chromium, etc. it also takes less time to compile which matters to me a
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lot because I compile everything from source, chromium takes ~60 times
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as much to compile as firefox and chromium is written in C++ unlike
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firefox - in rust and rust is known to be slow at compiling so if
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firefox switched back to C++ - firefox would be even faster to compile.
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Chromium also has a messier codebase so that also makes it prune to bugs
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and generally misshaps and stuff. Firefox's LoC is 21 milion where
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chromium has 35.
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Firefox uses a less bloated, but less performant web engine - gecko, the
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efficiency is not bad imo, but slower than blink, though as it's lighter
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- i prefer it.
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<h2>Easier to harden</h2>
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Firefox is easier to harden making it nice for people who are willing to
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spend the time tinkering around with it nicer, chromium is a bit a pain
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in the ass and as far as I see the most you can harden it easily is to
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install a few googled addons and that's it where with firefox you can do
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a lot more. Firefox is great for tinkerers and people who like
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customisation.
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<h2>More customisable</h2>
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Firefox allows for more customisation through
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<code> user.js </code>
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script (mainly for preferences) and userChrome.css which is great again,
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for people who are willing to spend the time customising it. I
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prefonally made firefox's interface minimalist with my userChrome and
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it's nice, where with chromium I don't think I can do that AFAIK.
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</p>
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<h2>Chromium is targeting "tech normies"</h2>
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Chromium and chrome are the most popular browsers out there, so they
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expect most people using them to be "tech normies" (explained what they
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are in one of my blog posts), so they add all that various abstraction
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and hiding making it hard for anyone to debug it.
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<h2>Firefox has better debugging tools</h2>
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As firefox is not as targeted to an average windows user who just wants
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to click buttons they have good debugging tools, I mainly use it for
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debugging front-end, but their javascript debugging is fine too.
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