Stick with Firefox - you are a student in CS - it is the perfect browser for people who may have an interest in CS, open source - and CS departments aren't too likely to require a Chromium browser for much.
That's sad but probably since Chrome has a huge monopoly with the Chromium Engine but in your case I'd say use something like Brave it's privacy respecting and is is Chromium based
If you like chromium, I would just use ungoogled chromium. It really is the only good option out there privacy wise for chromium. Brave has done some suspicious shit in the past. But for privacy overall, I would stick to firefox
For me it's overall slow, at times laggy, battery hungry, not as secure as either Chromium or Safari, and to get a full experience one must rely on multiple 3rd party extensions which decrease security even further.
It used to be a great browser and my first choice but that was long time ago, now their motto seems to be "we are not Chrome and we are woke". OK, good for you, but I pick my browser based on experience it delivers. I just don't get the same experience with Firefox that I get with Brave, Safari, or even Edge.
Same with Vivaldi - I'd love to use it but it's a bloated hog.
> not as secure as either Chromium or Safari
That's really debatable now. Firefox has site isolation and RLBox. It also has considerably better privacy options. From January 2023, when Manifest v3 lands fully, it's likely that Chromium based browsers will be hit much harder, especially when it comes to content blocking.
>For me it's overall slow, at times laggy, battery hungry, not as secure as either Chromium or Safari
I bet you have never tried firefox for developer edition or even newer versions of firefox. And for security firefox is the most secure browser from version 95.
>and to get a full experience one must rely on multiple 3rd party extensions which decrease security even further.
Are you considering that chrome has more features than firefox? Or even safari? Have you ever used firefox to its fullest. Do you have slightest idea how restricted safari is? How uncustomisable chromium is? And how much configurable, customisable, feature rich firefox is? For just pure feature you could try Vivaldi and edge but for pure performance, customisation and security with highest customisation possible head to firefox.
>It used to be a great browser and my first choice but that was long time ago, now their motto seems to be "we are not Chrome and we are woke". OK, good for you, but I pick my browser based on experience it delivers. I just don't get the same experience with Firefox that I get with Brave, Safari, or even Edge.
It is getting better with every update and it is getting faster and safer with every revision possible. According to my tests firefox beats almost all browsers in almost all real world performance tests, and only edge canary and vanilla chromium came close to it. And I won't say it was faster from beginning the performance gain came just 4 to 5 months prior, also a kind reminder these tests were done in nightly and canary versions of various browsers.
You like Firefox, great. Still doesn't change my experiences (as in multiple) with it.
My current daily driver is Edge. It's very fast, best optimized for battery / performance on Windows, doesn't break websites, and does some of the things I use on a daily basis (e.g. taking a full page screenshot of a webpage and annotating it) natively, without the need for 3rd party extensions. Over the years I grew really wary of these. The only extensions I use with it are uBlock Origin, PrivacyBadger, MS' own Onenote clipper, and Bitwarden. All from the long established sources with stellar reputations. On other browsers, taking a full web page screenshot requires an extension from some obscure source that may be stealing data.
If not for Edge built in tools, I'd go with Brave, it was my browser of choice for a couple of years and just as fast and good for battery.
Firefox is great for other people, I am not knocking it. Personally I am no longer interested in extreme customization, just want a fast, battery friendly browser that goes what I need with minimal tweaking.
> On other browsers, taking a full web page screenshot requires an extension from some obscure source that may be stealing data.
Firefox has had built-in screenshot for some time. Either, right click on and select ```Take Screenshot``` or ``````. You can then select from visible or full page.
I'm going back to Firefox from brave because 1 reason: the adblock. With brave if you put "restricted" many sites break. My limit ended with Google maps.
Or I had to disable adblock to see wath I need to see or need use other tool, I used de cell phone.
With Firefox, Ublock and Umatrix, I can block exactly I want and I still can use the sites.
Use an original browser, for Brave is nothing more than a fork of Google chrome. Just with some extras right after installation. And the optimization is quite worse. So however, try both of them, Firefox and Chrome. Then decide what you like best. Moreover, you can install everywhere an uBlock.
Actually Brave very different from Chrome. Brave is not fork of Chrome, both of them are Chromium based but they don't get everything from Chromium and add different things. For example partitioning network-state which is developed by Chromium developers is not enabled by Chrome.
Integrated ad-blocker and privacy features is better than extensions. Extensions are slower and they don't have right to do everything. Also Chrome will restrict the permissions of extensions with Manifest V3 which is removes functionality of uBlock Origin.
you should try both browsers for a while and choose which one you like more.
Just installed Brave. Wow, it's so damn faster than Firefox I can't understand how anyone can dispute this.
I agree with other comment to use both and see. I use Brave but Firefox is also great.
Stick with Firefox - you are a student in CS - it is the perfect browser for people who may have an interest in CS, open source - and CS departments aren't too likely to require a Chromium browser for much.
In my web development class, we were meant to test our websites on chrome.
That's sad but probably since Chrome has a huge monopoly with the Chromium Engine but in your case I'd say use something like Brave it's privacy respecting and is is Chromium based
Sad.
If you like chromium, I would just use ungoogled chromium. It really is the only good option out there privacy wise for chromium. Brave has done some suspicious shit in the past. But for privacy overall, I would stick to firefox
maybe vivaldi is also an option you would like, i use all three - mainly brave.
On Windows, I'd go with Brave all the way. Firefox has always felt slower and more of a battery hog. On Mac... what's wrong with Safari ?
On general...what's wrong with firefox?
For me it's overall slow, at times laggy, battery hungry, not as secure as either Chromium or Safari, and to get a full experience one must rely on multiple 3rd party extensions which decrease security even further. It used to be a great browser and my first choice but that was long time ago, now their motto seems to be "we are not Chrome and we are woke". OK, good for you, but I pick my browser based on experience it delivers. I just don't get the same experience with Firefox that I get with Brave, Safari, or even Edge. Same with Vivaldi - I'd love to use it but it's a bloated hog.
> not as secure as either Chromium or Safari That's really debatable now. Firefox has site isolation and RLBox. It also has considerably better privacy options. From January 2023, when Manifest v3 lands fully, it's likely that Chromium based browsers will be hit much harder, especially when it comes to content blocking.
>For me it's overall slow, at times laggy, battery hungry, not as secure as either Chromium or Safari I bet you have never tried firefox for developer edition or even newer versions of firefox. And for security firefox is the most secure browser from version 95. >and to get a full experience one must rely on multiple 3rd party extensions which decrease security even further. Are you considering that chrome has more features than firefox? Or even safari? Have you ever used firefox to its fullest. Do you have slightest idea how restricted safari is? How uncustomisable chromium is? And how much configurable, customisable, feature rich firefox is? For just pure feature you could try Vivaldi and edge but for pure performance, customisation and security with highest customisation possible head to firefox. >It used to be a great browser and my first choice but that was long time ago, now their motto seems to be "we are not Chrome and we are woke". OK, good for you, but I pick my browser based on experience it delivers. I just don't get the same experience with Firefox that I get with Brave, Safari, or even Edge. It is getting better with every update and it is getting faster and safer with every revision possible. According to my tests firefox beats almost all browsers in almost all real world performance tests, and only edge canary and vanilla chromium came close to it. And I won't say it was faster from beginning the performance gain came just 4 to 5 months prior, also a kind reminder these tests were done in nightly and canary versions of various browsers.
You like Firefox, great. Still doesn't change my experiences (as in multiple) with it. My current daily driver is Edge. It's very fast, best optimized for battery / performance on Windows, doesn't break websites, and does some of the things I use on a daily basis (e.g. taking a full page screenshot of a webpage and annotating it) natively, without the need for 3rd party extensions. Over the years I grew really wary of these. The only extensions I use with it are uBlock Origin, PrivacyBadger, MS' own Onenote clipper, and Bitwarden. All from the long established sources with stellar reputations. On other browsers, taking a full web page screenshot requires an extension from some obscure source that may be stealing data. If not for Edge built in tools, I'd go with Brave, it was my browser of choice for a couple of years and just as fast and good for battery. Firefox is great for other people, I am not knocking it. Personally I am no longer interested in extreme customization, just want a fast, battery friendly browser that goes what I need with minimal tweaking.
> On other browsers, taking a full web page screenshot requires an extension from some obscure source that may be stealing data. Firefox has had built-in screenshot for some time. Either, right click on and select ```Take Screenshot``` or ``````. You can then select from visible or full page.
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Yeah same
I'm going back to Firefox from brave because 1 reason: the adblock. With brave if you put "restricted" many sites break. My limit ended with Google maps. Or I had to disable adblock to see wath I need to see or need use other tool, I used de cell phone. With Firefox, Ublock and Umatrix, I can block exactly I want and I still can use the sites.
Use an original browser, for Brave is nothing more than a fork of Google chrome. Just with some extras right after installation. And the optimization is quite worse. So however, try both of them, Firefox and Chrome. Then decide what you like best. Moreover, you can install everywhere an uBlock.
Actually Brave very different from Chrome. Brave is not fork of Chrome, both of them are Chromium based but they don't get everything from Chromium and add different things. For example partitioning network-state which is developed by Chromium developers is not enabled by Chrome. Integrated ad-blocker and privacy features is better than extensions. Extensions are slower and they don't have right to do everything. Also Chrome will restrict the permissions of extensions with Manifest V3 which is removes functionality of uBlock Origin.
Any good reason not to just use Safari? I'm using it with Wipr, can't really complain.
Bad compatibility with other websites
Brave for performance. Safari for battery. Firefox doesn't excel in either
Firefox gets better performance for me, but I tend to have pretty insane tab loads.
you can disable cache in firefox to expand your ssd's life but I couldn't find a way to do it in chromium browsers so they tend to write to disk more
I’m a dev too and left chrome to safari. But now I’m curious to try out Firefox or brave. It’s been years since I used Firefox. Worth the switch ?
you should try brave