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Re:Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy? by dabbernaught420 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @11:32AM (#23669430)
Why not just use Firefox?
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Re:Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy? by esperent on Sunday June 28, 2020 @12:37PM (#23669985)
I've recently switched from Chrome to FF on Android. It's better in many ways, but it's noticeably and frustratingly slower on nearly all websites. For example, trying to minimize a comment on HN is now very frustrating as there's a >1 second delay which frequently results in me tap the target multiple times causing all kinds of weirdness.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy? by cosmojg on Sunday June 28, 2020 @04:08PM (#23671657)
Are you running Firefox Preview/Nightly? I've found them to be even faster than Chrome on my device.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy? by dhimes on Sunday June 28, 2020 @01:12PM (#23670291)
That might be an android thing.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy? by techntoke on Sunday June 28, 2020 @12:31PM (#23669915)
I keep seeing people say that but as a Linux user, Chromium has hardware acceleration and works better with Wayland.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy? by RMPR on Sunday June 28, 2020 @01:47PM (#23670575)
Did you try Firefox-Wayland lately? I use both chromium-freeworld and firefox-wayland on Wayland, and no problems so far. Also, hardware acceleration is meant to land in Firefox 76[0]

0: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619258

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Re:Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy? by techntoke on Sunday June 28, 2020 @04:05PM (#23671640)
Yes and yes, unfortunately can't wait around for Mozilla. This has been a problem for years now. Even with Mozilla's new official VPN service, and similar to their password manager, they did not start with support for Linux and it is always on the backburner. Until they want to prioritize open source first I am not interested in their solutions. I use chromium on Arch and it has hardware acceleration and everything else I can adjust through my policy file.
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