Worst browser. hard stop
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brave has been better than chrome for ages
specially on android
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what about the built-in ad blocker?
I convinced my "non-techy" partner to try Firefox after a fresh OS install and she had zero issues adjusting. I wouldn't even call it an adjustment in fact, she just continued using it the next day and never ran into a single problem. A lot of the reasons she still used Chrome were just down to complete misconceptions about how to use a web browser, like thinking she needed Chrome to be signed into her Google account or that she would lose all her bookmarks and stuff if she switched. I also got my mum to switch last year - again, the only reason she used Chrome was because she was confused about the difference between Google Chrome the web browser and Google the search engine. Google has a monopoly on these people without doing anything deserving with their product, it's just pure marketing and market dominance.
Not only that, but it is also the slowest and most unsafe.
Unfortunately, Chromium is quite fast on Android. I kept trying to use FF, but it chugs on big pages and eats way more battery.
Cromite was a good compromise, and I don't know of a better adblocking/anti fingerprinting browser, especially on mobile.
Now, this is not true on desktop. FF is great. I dunno if its faster than stripped Chromium, but its fast enough to not really matter.
Try waterfox. I switched because ff made my proc run like mad, waterfox has no such issues
Iβm mostly concerned with page responsiveness, like scrolling big walls of text. That, and media support.
Mainline Firefox (with flags to disable the background stuff) has been best for me in that regard.
Sorry, was talking tablet wise, not desktop
Oh.
TBH Chromium based browsers are kind of king on Android; there's just too much optimization work from Google compared to Mozilla. And Cromite's integrated adblocker/antifingerprinting is super fast.
That... and on Play Store Waterfox I'm seeing reviews like this:
After a September update, I noticed that my browser was randomly going back a page from time to time. At first, I thought it was an extension-related bug, but it eventually redirected me to some travel agency while I was looking up an image. I realized that this app had become adware and quickly uninstalled it. Severely disappointed, especially given the promises of a privacy-respecting Firefox fork.
Peculiar, i haven't seen any such behaviour. It gets a bit wiggy on tumblr, but i just assumed that's because that site's code is a hot mess
Yeah, itβs big pages with tons of scrolling/media (like Tumblr) that make Android chug. Sometimes I type/paste really long things into text boxes, and mobile Firefox was nigh unusable for that.
Cromite seems much easier on battery too, especially in tandem with adblocking (as any extension slows browsers down).
None of this is necessarily true on desktop though. In fact, Firefox seems better than Cromite on Linux in similar scenarios, but the difference feels small since everything is so fast anyway.
True, but there are alternatives to Chrome that use its engine, such as Brave. I have tried Chromite and it is very good.
The article actually said Chrome is bad because dark mode doesn't darken webpages. Huh?! Not sure why that required an article.
Guess you didn't read the article fully.
Here is the actual TLDR as to why chrome is bad for non techy people,
- Chrome does not have the ability to block any malicious ads pretending to be genuine.
- Chrome does not respect the system wide dark mode when it comes to websites.
- Chrome automatically logs you in. Not good for privacy.
- Article recommends Firefox (with ublock and dark-reader) or Vivaldi.
Vivaldi is actually great. Has some UI issues but I'm happy with it. I use firefox too
Chrome sharing the same login as the Android device is not only bad for privacy and usability, but is a complete pain in the ass to explain to non-tech-savvy people.
if they have to use chromium, i always recommend vivaldi.