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Blankstamped  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mozilla announces big changes to Firefox, in order to win back users.

Cool. I hope they do a good job so I can abandon Chrome again. I don't like giving all my info to one company, and Google already has my email.





user-inactivated  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm curious, why do you feel you cannot abandon Chrome now? The only real difference I ever see between Chrome and Firefox (I use both daily) is that Chrome has less useful extensions and is blue.

user-inactivated  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know why but when I use Firefox the fan of my Mac Book Air is always running and it is very annoying. So, I use Chrome.

Blankstamped  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Chrome is a little quicker and prettier. That's it, really. I've actually been using Vivaldi lately.

user-inactivated  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Vivaldi looks interesting, but I don't really trust anyone who has had any involvement in Opera...

Opera could be good at times, but they consistently made poor decisions. One example, putting ads inside the browser itself.

As for quickness, after using uBlock (with default deny) on both, and NoScript on Firefox, they tend to be equal. I know Chrome has script blocking plugins, but they are never as good as NoScript.

violinist  ·  3186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for mentioning Vivaldi—this is the first I've seen of it, and it looks quite nice so far.

Blankstamped  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is. Some of the features haven't been implemented yet, but it looks promising.