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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] Porka_911@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Chrome does have a use, namely Selenium and automation.

I'm guilty of having Chrome on my PC, as I need to nerf over my favourites to Firefox.

Firefox is my browser of choice on my Google Pixel 7, but then again no doubt it makes little difference.

I just choose to use a VPN, so any targeted adverts are blocked regardless of the profile built up from my browsing habits.

[–] CHKMRK@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

You can use the Gecko webdriver for Selenium

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 3 months ago

As someone else mentioned they have several browsers and so do I. I actually do google stuff in chrome and microsoft stuff in edge and would do apple stuff in its browser if they did not mess up the login stuff. then my firefox is my real browser.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993

50 States, 50 Protests, 1day

Feb 5 @ your downtown.

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The time for everyone to do that was 10 years ago. It's too late, Chromium won. I'm pretty sure even manifest v3 isn't going to kill it's market share when it finally drops.

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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[–] Breno@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I might consider it if they ever implement a modern sidebar like the rest of the others.

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[–] TCGM@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I recommend Chromium Ungoogled if you can't let go of the Chromium ecosystem for some reason. It's an open source fork of Chromium and puts pretty much all the power in the users' hands, so much so that to get certain features to even work you have to configure it. It is also fully compatible with the Chrome app store, if you want it to be.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/releases

[–] livendie@discuss.online 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The me from 6months back would be onboard with this idea, I don't really recommend firefox anymore. It's a bloated mess run by a very questionable corp. I had to move to PaleMoon, it's the only acceptable browser for me now.
Here are some links for your reading pleasure...
Mozilla - Devil Incarnate
How to choose a browser for your daily use?

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[–] finnie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (14 children)

On a Windows machine absolutely. On MacOS, why not trust safari? The battery management for Safari is fantastic.

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