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[-] robocall@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago

Y'all still use Chrome?

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 44 points 5 months ago

Firefox, switch to it

[-] trollblox_@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

librewolf

[-] sparkle@lemm.ee -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Firefox consumes more RAM than chrome on average. Edge uses the least RAM

Also, Floorp is superior to regular Firefox

[-] biribiri11@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Floorp is great. It has so many features that make it better than stock FF.

[-] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

wait, is the page broken or something? LOL

[-] biribiri11@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

No. They likely don’t have the manpower to update it. It is run by students, after all.

[-] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

In their landing page there are some cool features, do yall know any reason nota to migrate? I havê been thinking of quitting firefox to another browser for some time now (dont Sant chrommiun tho)

[-] biribiri11@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Same as any FF or chromium fork. The further away from the original you are, the longer security and performance updates will take to trickle down.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Didn't they go closed source recently?

[+] Zagorath@aussie.zone -7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When they get their shit together and implement support for operating system features that other browsers have had since 2019.

[-] biribiri11@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

To be fair, all the FF engineers probably dgaf about a platform where they don’t even have the freedom to use their own browser engine.

[-] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

That'd certainly be a good feature, but it feels to me like it's a fairly niche need. And as per that post, it's also a big technical effort. I can see why there isn't anything in the way of development updates.

That is me being a bit of an apologist for Firefox though. If you consider Firefox unusable because of that, then that's a pretty valid frustration.

Still, I'd encourage you to try and find a way to make it work for you because Chrome is evil.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't use Google Chrome, but there are plenty of other chromium-based browsers out there.

This isn't the first time I've run up against technical shortcomings of Firefox, either. I used to frequent a site which made use of the CSS class column-span. Chrome added full support for that class in early 2016. I was probably accessing this site from about late 2016 until about 2018 or so. Firefox didn't support column-span until December 2019. The whole time I used the site, Firefox simply could not render it in a usable way.

I've said for a long time that we'd be better off if Firefox switched to Chromium. They clearly don't have the resources to keep up with the rapid pace of change on the web. 5 years and they still don't support a browser feature that Google got out in a out 1 year and I think Edge got it done in 2 or 3 (and unsurprisingly, Apple has it ready day 1, though that's an unfair comparison for obvious reasons). Three and a half years behind other browsers in getting out a CSS feature that's being used live on the web already.

If they based their browser on Chromium, there would be so much less work for them to do. They'd have to spend some effort maintaining features Google has decided to drop, like Manifest V2, but they wouldn't be alone in that effort, since they can pool resources with the likes of Vivaldi and Brave, and maybe even Microsoft in some cases. So I'm the end a much higher percentage of their resources could be spent developing features that differentiate them and help maintain them as a great privacy-focused browser, instead of merely keeping up on the treadmill of platform change.

[-] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

They can be slow to adopt changes. I think the Mozilla foundation getting more funding, staffing, and refocusing on their browser would be the better solution.

While Chromium is an open source project, it is still developed and maintained by Google. For something as important as a web browser, I think it's imperative that there's an option outside of their control.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

it is still developed and maintained by Google

Sure, but Google has no control over any forks of Chromium. They can't control Edge, or Brave, or Vivaldi, or a hypothetical Mozilla fork. And if those other forks want, they can collaborate together to maintain any features they want to have that Google themselves don't want.

Like, yeah, more funding for Firefox would be the ideal case. But that's not something Mozilla really has the ability to effect. They can choose what engine they're using. And using Chromium would allow them to essentially "steal" the work Google has put in, while not preventing them from changing stuff that they don't like. In fact, in some respects it would help them even with that stuff they don't like from Google, since they can pool resources with other privacy-forward browsers like Vivaldi and Brave. I honestly see it as win-win.

[-] mmus@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Sure, but Google has no control over any forks of Chromium. They can’t control Edge, or Brave, or Vivaldi

Sorry but that's not how it goes, Google can exert control on forks by increasing the difficulty of maintaining changes. The forks have a vested interest in staying compatible with upstream to benefit from Chromium changes over time, which unfortunately means they avoid making any deep changes to the code. None of the Chromium forks are hard ones, unlike Chromium itself which was a hardfork of Apple's webkit, which in turn was a hard fork off KDE's KHTML.

Also, Mozilla should DEFINITELY NOT adopt Chromium. We need diversity in web browsers, the idea is that by having different user agents we give the user more bargain power over how they want to browse the web. Remember, Google, Microsoft and Apple are NOT your friends, all they want is to ransack everything and increase their shareholder values. If they can turn the web proprietary and fully locked down, they will.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

None of the Chromium forks are hard ones

For now. If Firefox became a Chromium fork, ideally it would stay that way. But if Google did make things too hard in the way you describe, then I would suggest Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, etc. should share a sort of medium-hard fork of Chromium. Keep their own track with features they need, but keep it close enough that the basic rendering engine can still be merged in from work Google does.

We need diversity in web browsers

That's an ideological position. I don't agree that there's any inherent value in the underlying browser engine being diverse. If anything, I think it's useful for it to be consistent and predictable.

As I write this, I'm talking myself into a slightly different position. Maybe they don't need to fork Chromium, but it would be valuable to dump Gecko in favour of Blink. I don't actually know what Chromium gets you besides Blink (and V8, which I lump together with Blink because for the same reasons, I think it would make sense to unify around). Stick with Blink & V8 to let Google to the work on the rendering side (while still being able to contribute back yourself where necessary), while maintaining your own browser and extension ecosystem. So web developers get a single platform to develop against, users get the full experience of any site they visit regardless of their browser, and Mozilla can maximally utilise their development resources in building and maintaining features that differentiate them.

[-] trollblox_@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Android, switch to it

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

I use an Android phone and an Apple tablet, because in both those procust areas, that means I get the best product available.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago

iOS shooting itself in the foot

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago

Google will also forget and kill your favourite project.

[-] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago

No they won't. My favorite projects aren't Google projects.

[-] yonder@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Don't forget about the "personalised recommendations."

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Then don't use Chrome?

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, go live somewhere else. /s

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

That's okay, I'll just download more RAM.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I'm hoping that advances in 3D printers will make this a reality in my lifetime.

[-] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

chromium also runs really slowly on my old 11" thinkpad since it tries to use crazy visual effects on a celeron

firefox runs fine on it

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure all 183 tabs are in 2g.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

This meme is posted so often, some people may actually believe that Chrome uses a lot of RAM. And it uses about the same amount of RAM as Firefox.

[-] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

From what I heard is that it uses a lot of RAM so it can run faster and will smartly lower its RAM usage if you are running low.

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