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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] Saunameister@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So i did the switch a few months ago and ofc i am very happy but i n the german version of FF you can't autofill adressfields like name and well your adress and so on. Anyone know how to activate that? i googled it a few times but none of the solutions worked

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] denaggels@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What's the point they make in the video? Can't watch it right now.

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[–] RogueSensei@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've played around with a few browsers, and while Firefox is a better alternative to chrome, I'd more recommend a privacy hardened fork of firefox such as LibreWolf or GNU IceCat. I've also used mullvad browser which is kinda neat.

Some people are too comfortable using chrome for it's extension library however, so if a mozilla-based browser doesn't fulfill the extensions requirement, Brave browser is a good choice. I haven't tried de-googled chromium, but I imagine it's food for the reasons it says on the tin.

[–] GeneralHu@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

You getting fked here or there. So don't think it matters that much.

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Generally I keep running into a constant habit where the same extensions I use in chrome are having memory leaks or some crazy ram issue that just clogs firefox to death. Meanwhile I just don't have the time or patience to figure out and/or find alternatives to said extensions.

Then i'll switch back a few years later but it's been on and off. It's always Firefox becoming unusable with my workflow, which is just not easy to deal with.

[–] Slopz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi > Chrome

[–] finnie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (14 children)

On a Windows machine absolutely. On MacOS, why not trust safari? The battery management for Safari is fantastic.

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[–] smoregooseboard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] jdevsd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using “Now” in the title linking an article from 3 years ago 💩

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[–] TCGM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I recommend Chromium Ungoogled if you can't let go of the Chromium ecosystem for some reason. It's an open source fork of Chromium and puts pretty much all the power in the users' hands, so much so that to get certain features to even work you have to configure it. It is also fully compatible with the Chrome app store, if you want it to be.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/releases

I’ve only been using FireFox and Safari for several years now.

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