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by atarikraken 1898 days ago
I've used every popular browser (chrome/edge/old edge/firefox/opera/brave/chromium/vivaldi) on Windows. Chrome works most smooth of the time without any funny issues.

Supposedly people said Edge is Chromium based, and is better, less memory usage, etc. I tried it, it just feels more clunky, takes longer to open, pages take longer to load. I also dislike the interface, chrome's interface seems more natural to me. And of course doesn't have the same extensions.

Firefox feels faster than chrome for certain sites, but I find it has issues with other sites. Might be because sites design for Chrome these days. Also Firefox like the original Netscape has random freezes and bugs. A lot less, but I find chrome just works most of the time with less problems.

An example site I can think of, off the top of my head, youtube works way smoother in chrome than firefox. I'm not a huge youtube fan but lately I've been trying to view content that happens to be only available on youtube. Opera has even worse youtube support.

I can't remember why I stopped using Chromium but I think it was a lack of extension support. I recalled it lacked something Chrome had that was important to me. If it's important to you, I can use it again so I can remind myself what it was.

For the record I do use Firefox as my backup browser, and I would say it's better than Chrome at some things (it loads certain sites faster, and has better extension support), and better privacy options, but overall Chrome works better for every site.

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You can install any chrome extension from the chrome store in Edge, you just click the usual 'add to chrome' button and Edge will install it.
You can simply open youtube links with mpv.
Do you know which extensions are not available on Firefox? I'm considering moving to Firefox and feel like after I move there'll be that one Chrome extension that isn't on Firefox.
Firefox + Multi-Account Containers [1] + Container Proxy [2] + Cookie Auto-Delete [3] have completely changed the way I use the web. I can now have multiple Discord accounts open, multiple e-mail accounts, etc.

Cookie Auto-Delete removes all persistent traces of my browsing (Cache, IndexedDB, LocalStorage, Plugin Data, Service Workers, Cookies) unless I have whitelisted a site. And you can whitelist sites on a per-container basis - the integration with Multi-Account Containers is solid.

Container Proxy lets me set up different SOCKS proxies per container. For example, if you have a system-wide VPN with a killswitch running, but want to stream from Netflix or HBO, you can attach a SOCKS proxy to a new "Streaming" container that connects to a SOCKS server running on your local network, effectively bypassing your VPN. Alternatively, if you want to make sure a container is unable to connect to anything without going through a VPN connection, you can bind the container to the SOCKS server on localhost created by your VPN client. You can then use this to set up multiple geographically separate "identities" that don't mix with each other.

All three extensions are reviewed by Mozilla - and Multi-Account Containers is actually written by Mozilla!

After using this setup, I feel that context separation is the future to privacy (and perhaps even security, as Qubes OS demonstrates.)

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-pro...

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

I'd add temporary containers to that list (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...) So you get an automatically generated container for each domain (even navigating from an existing one) and whitelisting per wildcard/container
I need to try this. Are those features available on Android too?
I don't have Android, but it can't hurt to check: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/multi-account...
Nope, but that is OK. I can use this capability on my laptop at times. Somehow I just missed it.
Firefox on Android currently only has 15 addons in total [0] (!).

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/android/search/