• xe3@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 months ago

        Google is in the process of undermining the effectiveness of uBlock Origin and other adblockers on Chrome and other Chromium browsers. I believe that change comes into effect this year.

        But even before those changes were announced, uBlock Origin’s creator and main dev has stated that uBO is most capable on Firefox.

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Does it work flawlessly on Android, iOS, and desktop? I’m really asking, because I ditched Chrome when it was less shitty than it currently is…

        • Gemini24601@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          The Orion browser for iOS is capable of using Firefox and Chrome extensions, although support can be a little spotty. Ublock works quite well though.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
          1·
          11 months ago

          All iOS browsers have to use Webkit (or did last time I checked). So there’s not much of a point of running Firefox on iOS. It’s basically the same browser no matter what browser it says it is.

            • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.info
              1·
              11 months ago

              It is, but Apple being Apple, they are going all malicious compliance and will break evening else for non-Safari browsers lol

              Also this only applies in EU. To use 3rd party apps stores you won’t be able to leave the EU for more than 30 days at a time as well

  • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    I’m all for people using Firefox instead of Chrome, but RAM being used up shouldn’t be a complaint unless something else needs that RAM. If it’s there, it should be considered usable.

      • xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        11 months ago

        It’s specifically about the efficiency of the usage. If it’s not used effectively, then it really is a waste.

        And we all know how efficient the Web is nowadays…

        • drem@lemmy.world
          0·
          11 months ago

          Why could ram usage be a waste? I thought only the allocation is the performance heavy part, allocated ram does not cost extra performance.

          • xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            11 months ago

            I’m referring to the philosophy behind the usage of said allocated ram.

            If you allocate 5 cookie jars to store 1 cookie in each jar, then that’s not good.

            If you store 2 cookies per jar, that’s better already, but still kind of crap.

            If the websites keep putting rocks in those jars, then you’ll obviously run rampant with usage. (Read: https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/ )

            The goal is to store as many cookies in least amount of jars. You might crumble them down and reconstruct them later (compression and/or clever code) but that could take more brain (processing) power (of which we kinda have, especially on the desktop).

            As you’ve said, it’s often a tradeoff between processing power and memory usage and depending on the application, you can configure things the way you need them (at least when you’re coding it).

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Firefox users may very well be doing that and no one will know because Google is not spying on them through their browser.

            • Dojan@lemmy.world
              2·
              11 months ago

              Google still has control over Chromium. Manifest v3 is a Chromium thing, not a Chrome thing. All forks of Chromium will get it and none of the browsers using Chromium as a base has moved to fork and maintain their own version of Chromium.

              This means that Google effectively has a monopoly over all browsers that aren’t WebKit or Gecko based, which is a tiny portion of all browsers. Leading to Google deciding how people access the internet. It’s already worrying that Google is the internet for a lot of people, the fact that they can do more or less anything with Chromium means that they can do whatever they want with the web standard.

              That should be a major concern for everyone. Chromium needs to be taken away from Google.

              • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
                0·
                11 months ago

                all browsers that aren’t WebKit or Gecko

                I don’t get this part. Are all engines other than those 2, based on Chromium?

                Perhaps you are forgetting Ze great Konqueror ?

                Because it has always been KHTML.

                There’s a meme for that. Check it out

                • xe3@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  I think Konquerer is no longer actively maintained.

                  Fun fact (which you may already know) the two most popular browser engines today are based on KHTML)

            • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              But Chrome, the actual application you download (as well as several forks), is closed source.

                • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  But that’s not the real issue. The issue is that any Chromium-based browser – open source or not – helps Google maintain hegemony over web standards. Even if makers of other Chromium-based browsers try to maintain a fork of the rendering engine, they’ll be perpetually playing catch-up removing user-hostile misfeatures because Google controls the upstream branch.

    • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Damn… is this why I feel so empty inside? I’m using Firefox but no tail plug or furry action?

    • Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml
      4·
      11 months ago

      “I’m so used to getting fucked by Chrome and Edge that I just feel like something’s missing if I don’t.”

    • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
      1·
      11 months ago

      I actually got kicked out of school because I wouldn’t use internet explorer, but Firefox is still the best option. Always was. Even if you need a special chair.

        • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
          3·
          11 months ago

          Well, it was high school, and they didn’t like my tail plug. Kept calling it ‘inappropriate’. I kept laying out my arguments for why chrome and IE are trash, but they just could not tolerate open source, I guess.

    • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Wait, didn’t you all get the free furry butt-plug when you downloaded FF?

      • ArtVandalist@lemmus.orgEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’ve been walking around with it “plugged in” for 20 years. I did try Ice Weasel once, but that was simply too cold for my sensitive insides.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      0·
      11 months ago

      So for some reason Firefox doesn’t work most of the time on my parent’s ISP. It simply doesn’t find sites 80% of the time. I can take the same wifi adapter and move it to my place and it works fine. I’ve messed arounfld with different DNS and stuff, and I just can’t get it to be reliable there.

      It’s super annoying.

  • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    I was at a party a few weeks ago and when we needed to use a web browser, one of the first things that happened was one of the attendees taking the computer to install FireFox.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
        0·
        11 months ago

        Me circa 1993: This world-wide web thing is interesting, but it will never replace Gopher.

        True story.

        • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
          1·
          11 months ago

          Me too! I remember mansplaining to my girlfriend at the time how long it would take to visit a page and download images, and how nobody would wait that long to see pictures of cats. I underestimated how much people really want to see cat photos.