Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team
by registeredcorn on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:34AM
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I'm not sure what others reasons are, but I'll offer my own reasons for moving away from Firefox:
* An increase in semi-frequent crashing
* Sluggish performance
* Annoying post-update prompts (This might be true of most browsers at this point? I didn't bother tracking how often this occurred, but it felt like this was a prompt I was seeing more and more frequently in Firefox. I just don't care what new features have been rolled out - I just want the browser to be up-to-date on security patches.)
The UX for Firefox is bad, but I would say that most browsers UX is fairly bad. Edge has done some interesting things, but the way in how Microsoft is forcing it on customers is keeping me far, far away from ever using it as a daily driver.
I ended up switching to Brave and have been fairly satisfied with it for a few months at this point. I realize Brave is based on Chromium, but liked the pushback they had offered against YouTube/Google over the past while. I get that it's all marketing gimmicks, but I appreciated it regardless.
I've also used Opera in the past, but haven't re-installed it in something like 5 to 10 years at this point. It was okay from what I remember, but freezing was an issue, but got the sense that it was more because of some setting I had changed.
For reference, the noted problems with Firefox listed above were experienced on: Fedora 37 and 38, Windows 10 and 11. Laptops and desktops. Various low to mid tier specs. I usually have 2 to 3 browsers installed on various devices at any time for work.
* An increase in semi-frequent crashing
* Sluggish performance
* Annoying post-update prompts (This might be true of most browsers at this point? I didn't bother tracking how often this occurred, but it felt like this was a prompt I was seeing more and more frequently in Firefox. I just don't care what new features have been rolled out - I just want the browser to be up-to-date on security patches.)
The UX for Firefox is bad, but I would say that most browsers UX is fairly bad. Edge has done some interesting things, but the way in how Microsoft is forcing it on customers is keeping me far, far away from ever using it as a daily driver.
I ended up switching to Brave and have been fairly satisfied with it for a few months at this point. I realize Brave is based on Chromium, but liked the pushback they had offered against YouTube/Google over the past while. I get that it's all marketing gimmicks, but I appreciated it regardless.
I've also used Opera in the past, but haven't re-installed it in something like 5 to 10 years at this point. It was okay from what I remember, but freezing was an issue, but got the sense that it was more because of some setting I had changed.
For reference, the noted problems with Firefox listed above were experienced on: Fedora 37 and 38, Windows 10 and 11. Laptops and desktops. Various low to mid tier specs. I usually have 2 to 3 browsers installed on various devices at any time for work.