Why do you still use failfox, G?

Why do you still use failfox, \G\?

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Because everything else is even worse.

less botnet

>(s)he didn't implement an implicit shadow dom manager with gpu layer and texturing in his firecuck fork
jej, non-quantum feels great

its crashed 7 times for me in the last month. cant put waterfox on my new version of mint(like i want to) because im stupid

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I noticed something really odd and stupid about firefox. CSS animations, even the shittiest one, will eat a lot of CPU in firefox, whereas they work just fine in chromium.

I stopped using it because Chrome is at least 50% faster and all I care about is performance on an old machine

>chromium
is this really 100% independent from google? i dont want my browser to link with an gmail account

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Jow Forums
>(s)he
Definitely she

Also this...

>100% independent from google?
it phones home as much as firefox does to mozilla servers

>i dont want my browser to link with an gmail account
you don't need a gmail account, even with chrome

chromium still incorporates the bulk of google's spyware. the major difference between it and chrome is just the google branding. i can't recall if it includes optional google account integration or not. what you want is ungoogled-chromium (which is cleansed as thoroughly as is humanly possible of any traces of google, although you won't even be notified of browser updates, so updating is totally manual, which is either good or bad depending how you look at it), or some other chromium fork (im not personally familiar with any, but that's just because im a waterfox guy) which also strives to be google-free in addition to bringing its own features to the table

what difficulties are you having?

This is what happens when you hire SJWs instead of talented engineers.

I'm using ungoogled chromium, but only until otter browser is good enough to daily use and gets a proper vim mode/extension

There exists a third party ppa for waterfox.

not who you replied to, but i'm not sure if waterfox's built-in updater plays nicely with the versioning used by the PPA. is there any potential for breakage or profile corruption if you use the internal updater then do apt upgrade? apt wouldn't force a downgrade or anything would it?

also
>third-party PPA unendorsed by the author

used chrome when no one was till it went shit

switched to ff now i see some weird things, video is kinda buggy, slowly getting to shit level


dont know what to use next

Because I'm not a fan of google recording and storing all my keystrokes, browsing history, and browsing pattern.
Because I like having addons like bypass paywalls, containers, etc.
Because I like being able to customize my browser to look exactly how I want it.

Why not just use iceweasel?

Wasn't waterfox just a 64-bit fork of Firefox?

because i like tree style tabs and the addons
also because fuck google, apple and chrome based browsers with shit font rendering and whatnot.

Aside from the various other reasons, I couldn't give less of a shit about how my browser performs in this aspect.

everything else is even more shit, unfortunately
although tab outliner addon for chrome looks like a great thing to have..

Use GNU icecat.

Because the tabs plus address bar in chrome are fucking huge and i can't reduce their height.

It supports xul/xpcom addons and has some differences like webp support since version 40 while firefox will have webp in version 65 iirc.

and of course all telemetry and shady system "addons" disabled too

I was on Windows until a week ago so I didn't give it any consideration. Iceweasel is either Quantum cancer or stuck on ESR 52.9.0, which was EOL'd over four months ago. IceCat is even worse shape, being based on ESR 52.6.0, last updated in February, and seems to be no longer developed.

About half my addons are XUL-/XPCOM-based "classic"/"legacy" addons that were deprecated with the release of Quantum, before the WebExtensions APIs had a chance to mature to the point of feature-parity with XUL/XPCOM. I don't think WebExtensions will ever reach that point.

Also, Waterfox still backports security patches from upstream, which as far as I can tell Basilisk and Pale Moon (the only other remotely viable Firefox forks that still support "classic" addons) don't do, or at least have no long-term commitment to doing.

Firefox's unhealthy rivalry with Chrome has cost it its very soul. There's literally no reason to use upstream or a mere re-brand over any Chromium fork anymore.

I'm kind of hitting up against this currently.

I read a review of Vivaldi on Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/vivaldi-2-0-review-meet-your-ideal-browser-if-youre-willing-to-invest-time/

I figured I may as well test it at work where I currently use Chrome. And.. It's fast. Really fast. It's a little slow to start, but after that, damn it's quick. Also, it allowed me tweak everything, I can turn off WebRTC, I can turn off search auto-complete. I can move the tab location, set groups.

I also decided to try it at home, and it is a FUCKTON faster than Firefox on Jow Forums with Jow Forums-x. It's so much faster that I'm currently posting from it.

There are two things I hate, firstly WebMs are rendered with a fucking huge play icon over the video. The only other thing is I can't detach a tab from a window into its own window. Beyond that, it's pretty impressive.

Not sure how much longer I'll be sticking with Firefox at this rate.

>all telemetry disabled
might want to rethink that bud spyware.neocities.org/articles/waterfox.html

>proprietary web browser
im sorry but that's just one thing my freetardation cannot compromise on.

that seems to be written by a 50 year old with near zero technical knowledge
it links a reddit thread as a source..

i think most if not all of these can be disabled via about:config. i don't think those should be the default settings, but what are you gonna do? when it comes down to it, any firefox-based browser needs further tweaking in about:config anyway. it's not as if those are the only privacy risks in waterfox either. however much the author may emphasize the relatively few privacy enhancements compared to firefox, waterfox only has one clear use-case now that upstream has a 64-bit build: use of classic addons in a browser with the latest security patches

>68349194
>>that seems to be written by a 50 year old with near zero technical knowledge
And your post seems to be written by shill with insufficient shilling expertise. But that's beside the point.
Waterfox devs do not care about privacy and their browser isn't included in any of mainstream Linux distributions. That's more than enough reasons not to use it.

If your website uses enough scripts and animations to justify GPU acceleration, its garbage.
The point of hypertext transfer protocol is TEXT.
If you need to send other types of files, or require interactivity, there's other protocols you should be using.
A browser is not the appropriate medium for your shortly all/game/video.
Software should be designed for one specific purpose and do that only.

I don't. I recently switched to Chromium

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why are you browsing an imageboard?

I can still browse it using lynx, dl images to view with feh, or just use a dedicated app like clover.

>browse it using lynx, dl images to view with feh
absolute state of boomers

Because I don't give a fuck about your braindead Chrome shills' rigged benchmarks.

>oomkiller intensifies

thank god i test the stuff myself instead of reading shitty articles in neocities.

>Browser benchmarks
Is this 2007?

I don't, Chromium with VAAPI patch is glorious
Firefags can cry and bitch about botnet as much as they want

>WebMs are rendered with a fucking huge play icon over the video.

Testing latest snapshot and i haven't seen that play icon (haven't seen it on stable too) the only annoyance is the media controls are shit but there's a vivaldi:flags entry for media controls that solves the issue.

>I can't detach a tab from a window into its own window.
This works on latest snapshot not sure if it works on stable yet but it's probably included in the vivaldi 2 release that happened recently.

also there's a lot of vivaldi:flags that are awesome.

It's because Chrome's handling of large numbers of tabs is complete garbage, honestly. If it had a scrollable tab bar like Firefox I'd consider switching.

Chrome encourages you to stop being an autist with 100 tabs open

Because if configured properly it respects my freedoms.

Chrome encourages me to use different software which better fits my needs.

Because when it comes to choosing between Mozilla and Google, Mozilla is the lesser of two evils.