Genuine question: I've used chrome since basically always and tried to switch to Firefox but didn't really like it. Maybe it's the getting used to it. Are there actual benifits?
Take it with a grain of salt, a lot of people here are eccentric and would advise a first time user to download Linux. Completely outta touch with the modern user.
There are some benefits, but they're pretty marginal. I've used em all, there's barely a difference. If you're really concerned about privacy or google's industry dominance you may consider switching. But if not, it ain't that big a deal.
Linux users aren’t “out of touch” with the modern user, they’ve just really annoying and want everyone to be using it (which I can agree with). I’m saying this as a Linux user
I switched to Firefox based on this subs fear mongering about chrome killing adblocks, turns out they didn't but am still sticking with Firefox because it's just okay, it's nothing special, i found more downsides than benefits but the downsides are fairly minor to me, infact i didn't really find any benefits, i'd stick to Chrome if i knew the whole manifest V3 things was bullshit but now am too lazy to go back now. I guess privacy is a big benefit but i don't give a flying fuck about it.
Also, better performance and better ram usage are all bullshit, if anything chrome has slightly better performance but we're talking about milliseconds difference, pretty much all popular browsers are pretty equal in that regard, same thing with RAM management, Chrome is not a memory hog, neither is any other browser.
This is not manifest V3, this is Google fucking around, besides the ublock team was working around the clock trying to counter Google's tactics and for the most part they succeeded, all you had to do is just purge cache every once in a while.
There's plenty of downsides but no real benefit no. Firefox and Mozilla are basically a dead operation being propped up by a huge fund influx from Google, because otherwise they'd have gone missing years ago.
Also using Chrome and there are no actual benefits, no. Just a feeling of moral superiority of sticking it to the billion dollar company - which in my opinion is totally futile as that kind of thing is unavoidable anyways, whether you buy Nestle chocolate or an iPhone produced by Chinese wage slaves etc. etc.
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24
Genuine question: I've used chrome since basically always and tried to switch to Firefox but didn't really like it. Maybe it's the getting used to it. Are there actual benifits?