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Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by mariusmg on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:06PM (#15648110)
>even if it is slightly slower than Chromium

Funny thing is Firefox Quantum is both faster and eats less memory compared with Chrome.

>not one that treats you as a pawn.

And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that doesn't treat you like a pawn. For MS, Google, Apple, that chinese company which owns Opera you are just a pawn.

(later edit : fixed the second remark).

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by akerro on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:15PM (#15648179)
>And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this.

Not any more, I recently discovered that my firefox at work got infected with Firefox Pioneer. I didn't install that, it just appeared on list of my addons, no warning or anything. I heard on Reddit about similar cases from a few months ago, people got Safe Browsing installed without their knowledge. Both are signed addons from Mozilla.

https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by unethical_ban on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:21PM (#15648231)
>at work

Is youre IT group policy doing this?

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by akerro on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:19AM (#15650419)
Small company, we don't have such policies, root account on my PC at work belongs to me. It's Ubuntu.

your

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by ryuuchin on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:07PM (#15649223)
Safe browsing is now built in to Firefox (and Chrome) so I'm not sure what you're seeing there. It hasn't shipped as an addon for quite some time.
Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by Vinnl on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:50AM (#15650497)
> Participation is voluntary, and you can remove yourself by disabling the add-on after you install it.

So it sounds like a bug or another case of non-malice. Tried reporting it at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/?

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by dingo_bat on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:25PM (#15649520)
Agreed 100%. I'd been using Firefox right since the early betas but at one point the scrolling performance grew so janky that I had to switch to Chrome. I hate the kind of bullshit chrome keeps pulling, specially the IE-like random standards that they keep inventing to make sure other browsers can't use certain features.

With quantum, Firefox is performing well. Even if chrome catches up I will not give up Firefox until it becomes so slow that I'm unable to use it normally. I don't care about the performance delta, just that it be good enough.

Go Firefox!

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by noncoml on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:16PM (#15648190)
>> not one that treats you as a pawn.

> And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this.

Do you mean to say Firefox treats you as a pawn? How so?(Genuinely interested)

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by dfee on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:19PM (#15648213)
I read it as a typo, where the author intended to say: FireFox is the only browser that does [not do] this.
Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by noncoml on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @06:35PM (#15648766)
OK, makes sense.
Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by MBCook on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:23PM (#15648243)
Re: pawn

What about Safari? (May not be an option based on OS though)

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by nilved on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:21PM (#15648233)
You have a very narrow definition of "browser." Try xombrero, vimb, Luakit, uzbl or good old w3m.
Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by eagsalazar2 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:20PM (#15649024)
Inspired by this post installed Quantum beta and used it for the last few hours. Stuttering videos and subtly laggy typing. In what sense it is faster?
Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by michaelmrose on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:47PM (#15649380)
Its an alpha/beta, your experience is clearly a bug rather than the expected behavior. Personally my experience has been bug free but unfortunately obviously not all bugs have been squished.

I'm running nightly which in theory ought to have more chance at issues but more chances of fixes for said issues faster too.

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by jhasse on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @03:52AM (#15650719)
Linux?