• hlqxz@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand why people use Chome? Just use any other Chromium based open source browser or Firefox

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      1 year ago

      Probably because most don’t know what Chromium is, or what open-source means or why certain websites don’t work (or work as well as in Chrome). Sad but true.

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      1 year ago

      most of the population isn’t tech-savvy enough to know about different browser types, or care about which one they’re using. The reason chrome is so dominant is because it comes pre-installed on many devices, and so people just don’t bother to change it.

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    1 year ago

    if I recall correctly many adblockers (including uBlock origin) stopped working a while ago on chrome when chrome implemented manifest v3.0 for extensions

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      1 year ago

      Hasn’t happened quite yet. uBlock Origin on Chrome is much less robust than on Firefox, that’s for sure. Manifest 3 is finishing it’s rollout this month and we’re looking at not being able to functionally use adblockers in Chrome very soon.

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        1 year ago

        Ah okay, thanks for the info. I don’t use chrome myself and haven’t been reading up on the whole ordeal recently so my information was a bit outdated lol

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    1 year ago

    I didn’t realize people were still using Chrome. I thought most jumped ship a few years ago.

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      1 year ago

      Not trying to be rude, but really? You thought that “most people jumped ship” on a browser that still has over 70% of the desktop browser marketshare in 2023?

      Hell on mobile browsers it is just over 60% marketshare. The people that “jumped ship” on that one all own iPhones.

      This is just a silly statement.

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      1 year ago

      I used Firefox for years, then switched to Chrome for a bit. It ate up 60% of my RAM for no fucking reason, so I switched back to Firefox a few years ago. Fuck Chrome

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      1 year ago

      I currently have 32 tabs open in Edge, albeit most of them have been suspended.

      I also have FFXIV running at 40-60 fps. I could start encoding a video right now, and Edge would slow down minimally.

      But for some reason, Firefox has always been slower for me. I truly don’t understand why.

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        1 year ago

        Not just a twist. It tries to shove crypto in your face and monetize your browsing time constantly. There are far better alternatives like Vivaldi and Firefox that don’t do that nonsense at all.

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      1 year ago

      Been there, done that, found more holes in vivaldi than the chrome itself, switched up to LibreWolf (a hardened fork of firefox.)

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      1 year ago

      Vivaldi still uses Chromium as a base, so you’re still supporting Google and Chrome. Literally only Firefox and its forks use a different rendering engine (used to be Gecko, I think it’s Quantum now). If you are using a browser with Blink as a rendering engine, you’re using Google code, and Google will still be in control of your browser.