Why ungoogled-chromium over Firefox?
Disc: Googler
>Faster, less bloat
Stock Firefox doesn't actually have that much bloat, and it's not noticeably slower than Chrome on reasonably modern hardware (i.e.: most page loads are near-instant, same as in Chrome on a good connection).
>Extension support for Chromium is way better too
Until Google decides that your extension is unworthy of being in their store. This notably happened with Pushbullet quite recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23168874
... Until Google inexplicably restored it a few days later, but not before lots of accusations were thrown around.
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IMO it's also worth noting that ungoogled-chromium is (obviously) an unofficial fork of Chromium. Google may at any time change Chromium so substantially as to either require Google integration at some fundamental level for even the most basic functionality, causing too much work for such a low-profile effort to continue, or just make Chromium closed-source. With Firefox, that risk doesn't exist because of the business motivations of the company that develops it.
I haven't used Chrome regularly in the last year or so, but it would get noticeably slow by the time I had 3-4 windows with 10-20 tabs each. Firefox hasn't really had that issue yet.
Years ago though, Chrome was noticeably faster than Firefox. That changed (IMO at least) at some point in the last few years.
I got used to Firefox's dev tools and can't find my way around in Chrome's.
People here are:
- early developers from majir browsers
- extension creators
- creators of major web properties
- people who spend their work days on the web
- etc
seriously. Don't underestimate HN.
Edit: and as someone who's been very into customizing and extending browsers since early Firefox: your ideas about Firefox vs Chrome tells me that you are either
- deeply biased
- use a subset of browser features that is too small to realize the problems with Chromium (in which case I suspect your 100x superuser is wild hyperbole)
You can come back when Tree Style Tabs including related sub-extensions works as well on Chrome as on Firefox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_(video_r...
Brave is the only browser that includes strong ad and tracker blocking by default, which is the best way to ensure your privacy on the internet.
In fact, every decision I've seen from them makes me think they care the most about user privacy, period.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474842
You can install uBlock Origin in 10 seconds from the GitHub release page (see previous link shared). This is vastly better than anything I've seen for ad-blocking.
Also that just makes me trust them more – they are the only browser vendor that are trying to find business models that don't involve selling my data or selling out to someone who does.
Edit: I feel it is slow because it has extra bloat added. Like I said, take my comments here with a grain of salt because I'm a very biased power user. I respect the efforts of these developers regardless of what project it is, the focus on privacy and building something different is truly awesome.
Ditto for developer / power-user experience – it's still chromium. Just with an ad-blocker written in Rust built-in and some other features.
Data or stop spreading FUD. There is nothing "slow" about Brave.
A Brave fork meant to address this issue. Time will tell.