RE: mastodon.social/@Gargron/11573…
I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and the browser constantly puts tabs in hibernation to save memory--something I've never needed with Firefox. So all of you Chrome users live like this? No wonder RAM is in high demand.
Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social)
I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me.Eugen Rochko (Mastodon)
Teoh Han Hui
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in reply to Tacháaan! • • •Pedro J. Hdez
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@tachan I decided to stick with Firefox as long as its features can be customized, since no fork can offer the same security guarantees in terms of rapid patching.
All AI features can be disabled directly in about:config (my choice)
askubuntu.com/posts/1556089/re…
or by using a ready-made configuration file
justthebrowser.com/firefox/
Revisions to How to disable all the AI features in Firefox to increase performance?
Stack OverflowAmir Khan
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •you’re more in control and aware of your settings this way. How is this a problem?
I’m using #Librewolf for months now and am very happy with it.
aria
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Donald Ham
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I had been using Firefox on my Android phone because, unlike mobile Chrome, it runs extensions I want, UBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. But I hate the new AI focus of Firefox. Vivaldi doesn't allow extensions either.
About 10 days ago I switched to the Waterfox browser, a Firefox fork, and love it. It effortlessly let me sign in to my FF account and transferred my bookmarks. Extensions: no problem. It's run flawlessly. Not a hint of AI.
@Waterfox
#Vivaldi_browser
#FireFox
Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •You can try this for Firefox
toot.community/@corbin/1158886…
Corbin Davenport (@corbin@toot.community)
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Martin
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Robert Mizen
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I have been using Vivaldi now for some years. I did try Firefox recently but its really lagged behind.
However for me, Vivaldi has a great productivity integration. We spend lot of time in browsers and having my mail, calendar and other things like that in one place does save me time.
It was my main reason to choose it.
Mark Farragher
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Chrome / Chromium is a resource hog. I hate it and try to never use it
I've got major issues with Mozilla and Firefox
Alex Semёnov
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Лафиэль Элентари
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Riquiñez
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I thought it was the reverse! 😯
So, I'll stick with Firefox (disabling IA features).
Григорий Клюшников
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •zbrando
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •As already noted you can disable the hibernation feature in the settings.
crazyeddie
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •LibreWolf is firefox based, doesn't currently have AI, and supports uBlock (I think it may come by default but I install it a weird way so I'm not sure).
Can't tell you about the rest of it. Not sure if it not having AI is just a face thing or not, but I never have to look at it (except it's in all the search engines now too and librewolf clears preferences that turn it off by default).
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Ollivier Robert 🇺🇦😷🌈
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •../kajer/.
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •When chrome first introduced tab hibernation, i noticed immediately and foiund the needed flags to disable that bullshit.
I only use chrome as the work computer browser, but that "feature" made my work day miserable.
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Firefox imo is still great, provided you choose a fork that removes the things you don't want or need. Librewolf's been my daily driver for years and it works great.
librewolf.net/
LibreWolf Browser
librewolf.netScotty Trees
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Nicola
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Eggs now in different baskets.
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I cannot really compare as I use Vivaldi as my primary browser with lots of tabs left open.
I use LibreWolf differently normally in private browsing mode for searches, route planning or reading the news.
Especially where a website makes you choose between accepting tracking or logging in.
I have other browsers installed for single uses - Chromium for Wire IM and nothing else.
I have noticed that the Helium browser (not using Helium services) feels much faster than Chromium.
Solitha
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Kerplunk
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal.
Absolutely not, pls compare with UngoogledChromium.
You can install UBlock from
github.com/gorhill/uBlock/rele… as an unpacked extension.
Switch on developer mode in the extensions page of Ungoogled.
No need to let play store track you
Releases · gorhill/uBlock
GitHubFahim Ahmed
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I can't daily drive a Chromium browser; it feels weird. I have custom user.js and policies files for Firefox. When I place both in the right directories, I don't need to change a thing in the settings.
github.com/fahim-ahmed05/dotfi…
dotfiles/browser/firefox at main · fahim-ahmed05/dotfiles
GitHubJacobRPG❌👑
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Aleksei☃️
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Dave Smeg
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Never managed to get on with it.
Most of the plugins don't work right and barely any privacy/adblock plugins work at all.
Pages would render only half way a lot of the time, other times IE would load instead and show the xml of the page that the link to download something would use.
Daryl Manning
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Kerplunk
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and the browser constantly puts tabs in hibernation to save memory--something I've never needed with Firefox. So all of you Chrome users live like this? No wonder RAM is in high demand.
UgoogledChromium is lighter on memory than both firefox and vivaldi.
It also is quiet, aka not transmitting your data anywhere unless you tell it to do so.