Wouldn't Firefox with all the inbuilt tracking protection, etc be better than Chromium? I seem to remember some bug reports of Chromium sending requests to Google servers too.

I main Firefox on all my platforms. I would prefer to use it wherever possible over any chromium browser.

Sometimes I get forced to use a chromium based browser for specific sites. In those cases I use edge for Windows because it's built-in and can't be removed anyway.

If I was just commenting that I would prefer to use chromium for privacy reasons but it's not worthy of installing separately for the few chromium specific sites I need to visit.

I don't see how having a preference over this is downvote worthy. Isn't that the entire purpose of these kinds of threads?

Some things like Facebook multi/group (2+) user video chat or google stadia require some form of chromium. I use Firefox for everything else.

Do you actually use Stadia? If so, how do you like it ?

Thumper is unplayable on my flex 14 and Comcast WiFi but it is very YMMV.

Thumper is a simple game but it requires you to basically turn left, turn right, or shields up very quickly. It is basically a reaction time test so very susceptible to latency.

I had earlier played assassin's creed in the private beta thing on an older laptop on Verizon FiOS. I did reach for the Ethernet cable most of the time but iirc it was serviceable even on WiFi because assassin's creed is less affected by the occasional latency spike. That or maybe Verizon FiOS where I was before in the city area has fewer connection problems than Comcast further out of a town.

I tend not to play shooters, so latency (hopefully) wouldn't be that critical for me...

I do worry about how fast it would eat up bandwidth though...

Wouldn't the EFF's extensions and uBlock Origin serve that purpose anyway?

Not entirely, that won't replicate Firefox's containers. (Also suggest Cookie AutoDelete extension for the privacy-focused.)

On top of that I also have privacy badger.

I have technical issues with Firefox, it might be my computer, but after spending an hour trying to solve them, I gave up.

Anyway that's why I'm here.

What kinds of technical issues were you experiencing with Firefox? Please feel free to elaborate. I have significant experience with the browser and there are very few user issues I've not been able to resolve.

Pages take abnormally long to load.

I have plenty of space on my SSD. Lots of free ram. I uninstalled and reinstalled.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium would probably be better than a simple Chromium.

Last time I looked into it (when Chrome's update behaviour on Windows broke the proverbial camel's back), there was no good way to automate updates of plain/ungoogled Chromium on Windows systems.

Still no package managers on Windows?

Seems ridiculous that every program has to include its own update manager—on MacOS too but it at least has brew-cask.

Chocolatey has U.Chromium

Chocolatey has Brave too, and other Chromium-based browsers : https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=tag%3Achromium .