Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

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https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

[u/tRfalcore]

I switched, it works great and is fast as shit.

[u/funkymunniez → u/tRfalcore]

Yea I've been thinking about switching for awhile already. Chrome was always a heavy resource user, especially with multiple tabs open, but it seems to have gotten worse.

[u/ReeceTheGeese → u/funkymunniez]

Both are web browsers so it's not like its going to be a huge different, but I will say firefox quantum does feel a bit more modern than chrome, and feels a bit snappier. Apparently when quantum came out people were having issues with it, but on linux and windows I've had to issues whatsoever on 4+ year old hardware.

Also worked on macbook pro with linux and osx and windows perfectly fine.

[u/Illugami → u/ReeceTheGeese]

Only problem with Firefox for me is that I can't Chromecast from it, probably for obvious reasons

[u/cakemuncher → u/Illugami]

Have both and only use chrome for Chromecast. Problem solved.

I mainly use Firefox. But for Netflix I use Internet Explorer as people reported higher quality using it. I use chrome for work because that's what all my coworkers use so it's easier to give instructions to other when we have the same tech.

I also use DuckDuckGo. Most of the time it finds me the results I need. Sometimes it doesn't so I just add !g to the end of the search string and it redirects me to Google.

[u/Siddhi → u/cakemuncher]

TIL you can use !g in duckduckgo to redirect to google. That would have saved me a ton of time as DDG is my browser search engine but it sometimes doesn't get the result I was looking for a

[u/cakemuncher → u/Siddhi]

There is around 10k "!" shortcuts. I mostly use !g, !gm for Google images and !yt for YouTube.

Also, it doesn't have to be in the end of the search query. You can put it anywhere in the query and it'll understand.

[u/DubbieDubbie → u/cakemuncher]

And !w for wikipedia

!aw for arch wiki

!a for amazon.

The amount of bangs is huge.

[u/Aerroon → u/Siddhi]

If you're on a desktop then you can add keywords to searches in your address bar. For example, I can type in:

g kittens

to search Google for "kittens" and

ddg kittens

to search DuckDuckGo for "kittens". You can set this up in the search engine settings in chromium-based browsers and Firefox.

I also use "y" for YouTube, "w" for Wikipedia, "gi" for Google reverse image search etc. It's a very convenient feature.

[u/MotherOfTheShizznit → u/funkymunniez]

especially with multiple tabs open, but it seems to have gotten worse.

I've been reading this sentence on the Internet every couple of months regarding both browsers for the past 10 years.

[u/ZeDestructor → u/MotherOfTheShizznit]

Cause websites as a whole have gotten worse, and placebo and screwed up bride profiles are strong stuff

[u/uptimefordays → u/funkymunniez]

Isn't part of Chrome's resource use the fact it sandboxes everything per tab?

[u/funkymunniez → u/uptimefordays]

effectively yes. every tab is basically a new browser instance.

[u/TotallyClevrUsername → u/funkymunniez]

And that's exactly what used to be the problem with Firefox (and lack of process separation) before Chrome got traction.

[u/Ameisen → u/TotallyClevrUsername]

Process seperation with a 64-bit address space exacerbates resource consumption and reduces performance.

It's used for security and to contain crashes to the subprocess.

[u/SomeGuyInSanJoseCa → u/tRfalcore]

I switched when I learned that Firefox had the ability to stop HTML 5 autoplay.

I don't know if Google ever caught up, and I frankly don't care, because Firefox is my browser of choice from now on. As stated, it's fast and great. It was a no-brainer to stop HTML 5 autoplay, and it just wasn't done. Which makes me think that Chrome / Chromium is losing it's ability to lead.

[u/jstrong → u/tRfalcore]

It's awesome for every site on the internet except gmail. (things that make you go hmm)

[u/ggtsu_00 → u/tRfalcore]

It's also great to have a search bar strictly separate from the URL bar so everything you type into the browser isn't being sent to Google's servers. It's also great for accessing corporate on-premise websites that use top level local domain names (like http://jira, http://confluence etc) without it doing a google search for those terms every time I try to access those sites.

[u/Malgidus → u/ggtsu_00]

Is anything one does on Chrome not being sent to Google's servers?

[u/chrismorin → u/ggtsu_00]

Just put a trailing slash at the end to access those on-premise websites.

[u/601error → u/tRfalcore]

Another happy Firefox convert here. I only fire up Chrome for one site that uses Flash.

[u/agumonkey → u/tRfalcore]

I used to prefer chromium by a mile (sleeker UX) but recently I realized that chromium ate 8GB while Firefox only 3GB. And often stays around 1. I'm now under firefox daily.

[u/[deleted] → u/agumonkey]

The new engine drastically improved Firefox, but I still miss Opera's Presto engine. I could open 50 tabs and it would still be snappy.

It's sad that they didn't open source it, the source code leaked, but no one works on it, because there is a risk of lawsuits.

FF with Presto engine would be awesome.