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Written by The Linux Experiment on 2024-11-22 at 07:41

Google Chrome severely damaged extensions, time to move to a better browser

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/6dc9e084-e337-4b8a-a627-9cbd83b05750

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Written by Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ on 2024-11-22 at 08:03

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A well put together examination of the browser options now that Google is forcing most browsers to show more ads online.

The only thing I would have enjoyed seeing added would have been a look at upcoming future potential browsers such as #Verso.

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Written by Frank Ploegman on 2024-11-22 at 08:13

I use Vivaldi as my main browser and like it a lot, especially the Feed reader. I block trackers but not ads, because I want to financially support creators/providers for their services. It doesn’t matter to me at all that Vivaldi is not fully open source.

I also use Firefox often, but have found that it doesn’t work well at all with extended use of certain websites such as Monkeytype and Sudoku. Seems to be a memory issue or something where the webpage works fine initially, but gets really slow after a few minutes of use. (I experienced this about a year ago; perhaps the problem has been fixed by now.) In my experience, complex web pages such as Yahoo Finance also load/display noticeably slower on Firefox versus Chromium-based browsers.

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Written by jakob 🇦🇹 ✅ on 2024-11-22 at 09:15

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Ahhh. here we go.

For some reason, the abonnement for your channel ended one year ago... don't know why.

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Written by Philipp Steinkrüger on 2024-11-22 at 11:01

@thelinuxexperiment Nice review

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Written by jakob 🇦🇹 ✅ on 2024-11-22 at 11:02

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Written by sezduck on 2024-11-22 at 14:40

@thelinuxexperiment @FediThing Since I’m a Mac user, I primarily use Safari. I used to have Chrome installed as a backup (in cases where Safari doesn’t properly render the page). Then I realized that Google keeps services running in the background even when Chrome is closed. That’s super shady, so I uninstalled it and made Firefox my backup browser.

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Written by Podagro on 2024-11-22 at 14:45

I use mainly Librewolf, which 99% fills my needs. If I need something V8-based I have also Vivaldi installed, which I quite like. Especially about their stance on ai and web3 crap. If only Vivaldi was Gecko-based and FOSS.

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Written by Mario on 2024-11-22 at 20:41

@thelinuxexperiment so really there is no browser based on either firefox or chrome??

Mozilla proved very well how is not having users at hearth with the ban of uBlock Origin Lite extension.

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Written by ˣ𝙆𝙊𝙎𝘼𝙈𝘼ˣ :dunno: on 2024-11-22 at 22:47

@thelinuxexperiment The browser landscape is looking grim, it's good to know there's still some options.

I wonder if Google/Mozilla could introduce deeper changes to their browsers that impact others? So far, Brave seems to demonstrate that this isn’t necessarily the case, but I don’t have the technical expertise to say for certain.

I assumed that most of these forks of Chrome, would be insulated from such issues. But changes like Manifest V2 at a more foundational level caught me off guard.

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Written by tracy anne on 2024-11-22 at 23:51

I have never used Google Chrome... because, well Google. Totally vindicated

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Written by vintprox on 2024-11-24 at 15:46

So far I'm content with Vivaldi, despite the drop of V2. Having my Cinny and other messengers as web panels at the side deck has cured my lack of focus a bit. Double-store tabs with ad-hoc grouping also solve the tab creep and facilitate concentration. And as cherry on top: I can unload a bunch of temporarily unused tabs on demand! No need to restart the browser or explicitly save browsing sessions.

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