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Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by ladyanita22 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:47AM (#35789401)
Yeah well I just use Firefox on Linux
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by hackerbrother on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:39PM (#35790275)
I use Lynx on OpenBSD.
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by pacija on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:50PM (#35790467)
I wold have problem with Lynx on OpenBSD, but Iridium on FreeBSD is quite ok, as long as I add obligatory ublock origin, umatrix and cookie autodelete extensions.
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by 0dayz on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:01AM (#35799795)
Why ublock and umatrix?
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by pacija on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:12PM (#35905996)
ublock to block ads, umatrix to block (by default, with ability to unblock) any resources outside visited domain and its subdomains.
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by fwlr on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:59AM (#35789608)
Also a good option. Edge and Chrome are definitely on the biting edge of this particular ratchet, while Firefox and Safari are at least half a whole rotation behind. (We could split hairs about who is a click behind whom, and how much of that is because of development velocity rather than intention, but the difference is minor compared to where Chrome and Edge are at.)
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by lockhouse on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:49AM (#35789428)
What do you use for a mobile phone?
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by SXX on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:53AM (#35789501)
For last 3 years Firefox works great on Android and does have working ad-blokers.
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by zgk7iqea on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:11PM (#35789819)
Unfortunately, Firefox‘s security on Android is .. not the best

(https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...)

Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by DANmode on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @06:03PM (#35794843)
It's not just Android.

Unfortunately.

Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by arsome on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:53PM (#35796755)
Wow that article that completely misses the point, yes, Chrome has better sandboxing, which offers it marginally better security, but that has nothing to do with Firefox's far better privacy features.

For people who are not spies or hoarding millions worth of cryptocurrencies on their desktop PCs, they're not likely running across zero day exploits on the regular. They are however running across trackers galore and Firefox's tracking protection and anti-fingerprinting features are likely to make a larger difference in practice for all but the most targeted of individuals.

Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by lockhouse on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:54AM (#35789518)
Are you using one of those de-Googled custom Android ROMs or stock?
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by miloignis on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:27PM (#35790055)
I am - GrapheneOS is excellent. I do unfortunately run sandboxed Google Play Services for access to Google Maps & Google Play through which I get my banking app. Pretty much everything else (launcher, podcasts, VLC, Firefox, FluffyChat&Element for Matrix messaging, ntfy.sh/UnifiedPush) is via f-droid, and works great.
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by PrimeMcFly on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:59PM (#35797260)
On a Pixel or something else?
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by miloignis on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:05PM (#35797329)
Used Pixel 4, yeah - I think the later pixels have better security features & support from Graphene, but this way I also help reduce ewaste.
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by PrimeMcFly on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:25PM (#35797498)
Just interested because I like Graphene but don't want to use a Pixel. I'd love to run it on a FairPhone honestly. Looks like DivestOS is my best bet.
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by SXX on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:02PM (#35789672)
Honestly nope. I mostly need phone for banking apps that thanks to Google DRM (SafetyNet) dont play too well with custom ROMs. Yet Firefox work quite well across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android and it has huge advantage of having proper adblocking. So it's mostly no brainer which browser to use.
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by Alifatisk on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:55AM (#35789537)
I’m running Firefox on both iOS & macOS.

Also installed it on my pc.

Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by WorldPeas on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:00PM (#35789621)
I use Fennec F-droid on android
Re:Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser by Arnavion on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:10PM (#35796450)
Firefox. My phone runs Linux (postmarketOS).