Originally Posted by walterjay
I am very happy with Firefox. Have been using it for years.
Me as well.
I am very happy with Firefox. Have been using it for years.
Me as well.
Went back to Firefox
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Been using Firefox for years and have been happy with it
I started using Firefox a few months ago, and I am happy with it. When I was researching VPN's , Firefox kept coming up as being a great search engine that is very secure to use. I use NordVPN along with it.
Opera is what Chrome should be. I went to it after I had issues with Chrome and Firefox a couple years ago and never looked back. It has a built in Ad-Blocker, built in free VPN (if you turn it on in the options) that allows you toggle it on/off right from the address bar. You can message through WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger right in the browser from it's sidebar. It allows syncing across multiple devices as well and you can install any Chrome extensions / add-on's into it because it uses a modified Chrome engine.
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Originally Posted by StevieC
because it uses a modified Chrome engine.
Opera, just like Chrome and several other browsers out there (including the upcoming Microsoft Edge), is built on Chromium; so it isn't a "modified Chrome engine", but Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and (I lose count now as it seems like everyone is building their browsers on it) are all built on a modified Chromium.
EDIT: Here is a list of Chromium-based browsers. https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/all-the-chromium-based-browsers/
because it uses a modified Chrome engine.
Opera, just like Chrome and several other browsers out there (including the upcoming Microsoft Edge), is built on Chromium; so it isn't a "modified Chrome engine", but Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and (I lose count now as it seems like everyone is building their browsers on it) are all built on a modified Chromium.
EDIT: Here is a list of Chromium-based browsers. https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/all-the-chromium-based-browsers/
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windows 7 was the best with whatever, but getting a new lappy i am stuck with windows 10, use chrome but it did not transfer my pics + i hate when it opens or deletes "when it feels like" hovering. never used opera but am always open to change if it works better
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Originally Posted by StevieC
because it uses a modified Chrome engine.
Opera, just like Chrome and several other browsers out there (including the upcoming Microsoft Edge), is built on Chromium; so it isn't a "modified Chrome engine", but Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and (I lose count now as it seems like everyone is building their browsers on it) are all built on a modified Chromium.
EDIT: Here is a list of Chromium-based browsers. https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/all-the-chromium-based-browsers/
Was just going based on what I read.
Originally Posted by StevieC
because it uses a modified Chrome engine.
Opera, just like Chrome and several other browsers out there (including the upcoming Microsoft Edge), is built on Chromium; so it isn't a "modified Chrome engine", but Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and (I lose count now as it seems like everyone is building their browsers on it) are all built on a modified Chromium.
EDIT: Here is a list of Chromium-based browsers. https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/all-the-chromium-based-browsers/
Was just going based on what I read.
Originally Posted by StevieC
Was just going based on what I read.
... Which could probably be considered "correct"; I just wanted to take the opportunity to point out a few things that I find noteworthy about the whole browser situation these days:
1) With only a few exceptions, Firefox being the most notable, darn-near everyone on the planet's browser is 99% the same as everyone else's: Chromium is quite literally a feature-complete browser that different people or organizations tweak; sometimes by adding features, other times just by re-branding and changing or adding very little. It leads one to ponder if we've actually progressed anywhere since there was panic in the mid- and late-90's about what would happen to the world wide web if Microsoft succeeded in killing Netscape (later Firefox!) and had total dominance in the browser world. It's almost all Chromium now.
2) Whatever we do not like about Chrome and all of its "phone-home" stuff is solely because of what Google adds on top of Chromium. Chromium itself is free of proprietary or patent/ license-encumbered stuff like Flash (tm) and a PDF reader; although those functions are very easily installed (they're in the Ubuntu repositories, for example). Chromium is open-source so at least there aren't any secrets about what is under the hood in all of these browsers.
3) It is trivial to run Chromium in a Linux distribution. Every distro I see that is remotely mainstream features it in their repo's. I recall having to hunt down 3rd-party compiled versions of it for Windows and Mac, however. So if a user ever wants a Chrome-like experience without all of the Google (or Microsoft, or anyone else's) stuff piled on top, you could always look at Chromium on its own.
Was just going based on what I read.
... Which could probably be considered "correct"; I just wanted to take the opportunity to point out a few things that I find noteworthy about the whole browser situation these days:
1) With only a few exceptions, Firefox being the most notable, darn-near everyone on the planet's browser is 99% the same as everyone else's: Chromium is quite literally a feature-complete browser that different people or organizations tweak; sometimes by adding features, other times just by re-branding and changing or adding very little. It leads one to ponder if we've actually progressed anywhere since there was panic in the mid- and late-90's about what would happen to the world wide web if Microsoft succeeded in killing Netscape (later Firefox!) and had total dominance in the browser world. It's almost all Chromium now.
2) Whatever we do not like about Chrome and all of its "phone-home" stuff is solely because of what Google adds on top of Chromium. Chromium itself is free of proprietary or patent/ license-encumbered stuff like Flash (tm) and a PDF reader; although those functions are very easily installed (they're in the Ubuntu repositories, for example). Chromium is open-source so at least there aren't any secrets about what is under the hood in all of these browsers.
3) It is trivial to run Chromium in a Linux distribution. Every distro I see that is remotely mainstream features it in their repo's. I recall having to hunt down 3rd-party compiled versions of it for Windows and Mac, however. So if a user ever wants a Chrome-like experience without all of the Google (or Microsoft, or anyone else's) stuff piled on top, you could always look at Chromium on its own.
I got tired of Firefox doing constant updates and breaking its own extensions.
Newer Opera is a step above Chrome.
Vivaldi is headed by a former Opera founder and is what the current Opera should be.
Winner: Vivaldi.
Newer Opera is a step above Chrome.
Vivaldi is headed by a former Opera founder and is what the current Opera should be.
Winner: Vivaldi.
Originally Posted by digger327
I use Brave. Removed Firefox due to their politics.
I bet you showed FireFox doing that with the free software they provide.
I stick with Chrome only for the superior web development tools and the profiles carrying my links system to system.
I use Brave. Removed Firefox due to their politics.
I bet you showed FireFox doing that with the free software they provide.
I stick with Chrome only for the superior web development tools and the profiles carrying my links system to system.
Yeah, FF screwed something up majorly with add-ons last night, effectively disabling majority of them. I think they are working on fixing it, but that's a huge blunder.
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Yep Adblock and UBlock Origin have been disabled. MUST be in Private Windows now when viewing major newspapers, which have been my desktop homepage for almost 20 years now
If in Normal Windows, a million ads are displayed on the Detroit News Or Detroit Free Press homepage. Yikes! I will wear some patience and give Firefox a few days to fix this.
If in Normal Windows, a million ads are displayed on the Detroit News Or Detroit Free Press homepage. Yikes! I will wear some patience and give Firefox a few days to fix this.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/03/firefox-extension-add-on-cert/
supposedly a hotfix rolling out now.
I might just stay on chrome.. that was a major fubar mozilla
supposedly a hotfix rolling out now.
I might just stay on chrome.. that was a major fubar mozilla
Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
Yeah, FF screwed something up majorly with add-ons last night, effectively disabling majority of them. I think they are working on fixing it, but that's a huge blunder.
Yeah my spouse uses Firefox and encountered the same thing. It was fixed this morning.
W.T.F.? are they not testing this stuff properly or what?
Yeah, FF screwed something up majorly with add-ons last night, effectively disabling majority of them. I think they are working on fixing it, but that's a huge blunder.
Yeah my spouse uses Firefox and encountered the same thing. It was fixed this morning.
W.T.F.? are they not testing this stuff properly or what?
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Originally Posted by StevieC
W.T.F.? are they not testing this stuff properly or what?
QA is just so 1990s, dude. We're, like, Agile these days. Ship broken code, fix it later... maybe.
Originally Posted by StevieC
W.T.F.? are they not testing this stuff properly or what?
QA is just so 1990s, dude. We're, like, Agile these days. Ship broken code, fix it later... maybe.
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Mine (Windows 10 desktop) is still not fixed.
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