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Replacement for Firefox? (fedia.io)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Norgur@fedia.io to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Hey there,

I've been using Firefox for ages now, and I was completely satisfied with it... until very recently, that is. For space-saving reasons, I started to convert my media library to H265, since all devices in my network support it now. Or so I thought. One very noticeable omission is my desktop PC with Firefox. Now, if I watch something from my local media server, the server has to waste resources to convert to H264, which is a noticeable performance hit to all other things running on the server. The GPU in my Desktop PC (or the CPU for that matter) could have displayed H265 without even changing clock speed from idle. So I tried to use the native Plex App for Windows for that, but that one does not support RTX Super Resolution which was really nice when watching old DVD stuff.

From what I can see, to get both, I need a Chromium browser. Since I would rather not have two browsers open all the time: Is there any browser based on the latest Chromium Builds that is not a massive insult to one's privacy?

solution:

Firefo does support H265. It didn't for a very long time so most posts online talk about how it has no support and that it ain't planned. Yet, it has gotten support in the meantime.

change

media.wmf.hevc.enabled

To 1 in about:config, restart browser, done.

Thanks, mate

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use no other, the ad/trackerblocker in Vivaldi is full customizable, you can add the filterlists you want. In the adblock test I got between 90-100% (You must test the best filter combination, because too much can break some sites, adblocking is always a balance game). If you want more privacy, you can use the privacy extensions you want or use userscripts, which you can install directly as extension, if you don't want to use Tamper-,Greasy- or Violentmonkey to do this. It's a EU company (strict GDPR), no tracking, ads or third parties behind, own sync server e2ee.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Cool, I'm playing with it. One concern is that it's closed source.

I'm not going to use it as a main browser most likely though, I'm happy with Firefox, but I need something for when websites refuse to work w/ it.

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago

Besides, you can always just throw uBlock on it and be done with the adblock stuff

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its always good to have several browsers at hand. The perfect browser is the one which fits the needs of the user.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Eh, several seems like a bit much, but diversity in general is good. I use Firefox because it solves my needs, but I need a Chromium-based browser for random broken sites.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Instead of FF I¡ve also Mullvad, apart Otter and SSuite Netsurf. so I've 4 different engines at hand, if needed. Blink, Gecko, Qt5 and WebView.