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Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I have switched to Firefox but I’m having a hard time. Firefox feels sluggish compared to Chrome and uses an insane amount of memory. And I really miss tab groups as Chrome had them. There are some add-ons for Firefox that try to imitate this feature but none of them has everything I want (e.g. the ability to collapse a group in the top tab bar). And most of them build on top of Firefox tab groups which come with an isolation feature I don’t want (and haven’t found a way to disable for tab groups).

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TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Firefox’s rendering looks like ass. Maybe you would like ungoogled-chromium?

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- AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can you share a screenshot? I’ve used both browsers almost every day of my life since they released. They render the web very similar for me.
  
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  - TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No they don’t. Firefox renders fonts differently from Chrome and ruins the web experience for me ahha
    
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- Jramskov@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In what way is Firefox a privacy nightmare?
  
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  - TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Again just start Wireshark and launch the browser to see what it does.
    
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stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My experience has been the opposite. I will have far too many tabs and windows open and with Chrome I would often see memory usage over 10gb. And on more than one occasion I’d have to end task on chrome as it was locking or already locked up.

Switched [back] to Firefox in the last year or two, same plugins, no change in behavior, and it never locks up. Memory usage is fine. Right now with just as many windows and tabs open it’s using 5gb ram.

Chrome has been uninstalled from my PC.

And the tab containers plugin from Mozilla is really incredible.

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