Social networks really have no business being "on the edge of performance", FFS.

Look, Google and Facebook are just mom and pop businesses - they can't afford to support all these fancy browsers!

(I absolutely agree - especially when it's google turning off features when you're using FF... it feels blatantly anticompetitive).

Okay, well, they're using React and most React engineers aren't very good so it ends up being a clusterfuck that most people don't even notice given how well Chromium is optimized.

I don't much care, TBH. Having worked in the Chromium codebase before, I know what an absolutely mammoth amount of engineering hours goes into that.

V8 on its own is a technological miracle.

But all funded by a firehose of crazy privacy invading ad revenue.

So. I'll live with the odd pause and a bit of battery drain. I gave Google 10 years of my life as an employee in exchange for $$, I'm not interested in giving them the rest of my life for free.

I get it, it's a nice story, but here's a nice little life-hack:

What if you could take the benefits of the spending and jettison the side-effects?

It's called Brave, they have their own ad blocker in the source code written in C, so it can't be hamstrung.

Crypto crap, no thanks.

This isn't an intelligent statement. I have used Brave for years and literally never see anything related to "crypto".

If you're trying to go "chrome but better" than Brave is a move in the wrong direction, given its bundled cryptocurrency and ad platform.

Perhaps you haven't heard of Chromium. If so, that may be because Chromium doesn't spend as much on marketing as Brave.

https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/

It's funny because I worked in that repository for a few years, and routinely built a custom "shell" (what Chromecast is) and when this guy suggested Brave my thought was... eh, yeah, sure, but I could also just roll my own or just run stock chromium :-)

I personally like that Firefox isn't based on webkit/blink.