They both use hundreds megabytes of RAM just to render my static page. But for hydrogen web chromium use ~35M. This is shitty.
(w3m use 10M and in most case for searching we only need text-based browser)
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i love firefox but honestly right now i find edge to be much more aesthetically pleasing, especially with vertical tabs and grouping. if firefox can add these two items, i'd switch to firefox in a heartbeat (and they're already adding tab groups)
Somewhere in this thread is a userchrome.css file on how to remove the "tree style tabs" header bar.
Install that addon.
Place that file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/XXXX-default-release/chrome as UserChrome.css (create that folder).
Enable legacy customization in about:config
aren't there extensions for this?
there is sidebery but i just like the edge version more. the extension wasn't as fluid, plus i like how i can have native profiles for work, uni, and personal built in without extensions like profile switcher, which relies on a third party program. nothing against it; and i still donate to mozilla and firefox. i'm looking forward to seeing mozilla's approach to tab groups though.
yup vertical tabs are the dealbreaker for me, edge got me hooked. Floorp is a fork that has it, haven’t used it a ton yet but i keep hearing more about it. I’ve been using Arc which i’m enjoying.
You know that famous The Dude meme? Applies here.
Not a chrome fan and I use Librewolf and I like how I've customised it. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Librewolf doesn't respect your choice in system fonts if you uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". I don't use it for that reason.
Cant you set a custom font within Librewolf?
You can but it won't be respected. It will continue to default to their included Noto fonts despite whatever font you select. You can test this yourself. I'm sure they do it for some "privacy reason" but if I wanted that trade off I'd simply use the Tor Browser or one of those hardened firefox profiles.
Strange, no local font should not be fingerprintable.
Source: One person's opinion on their personal Fediverse account
... Not that I disagree, mind. I've been on FF since like. 2007? Which was the moment I figured out that other web browsers besides IE7 existed?
Never saw reason to hop to Chrome(ium) even before I knew/cared about datamining or enshittification or any of that stuff. Back then it just looked like "another browser, that does things a bit different but has no features that entice me that Firefox lacks". Then as I learned about the political side of things I was like "Huh, guess I'm glad for myself then!"
I used Netscape "back in the day". With some interim transition attempts including the likes of Opera, I eventually switched to Chrome because it was genuinely more featureful and faster.
I was a happy Chrome user until they decided to deprecate manifest V2 and fuck up my ad blocker, at which point I switched to Firefox and haven't looked back.
Everything in this industry is circular I guess.
I used Opera when it used Presto instead of becoming a yet another chromium. I miss that one.
What would you consider an authoritative source on if something looks nice?
~~Me, I'm the certified niceness decider~~
Or just use multiple browsers? If one size fits all for you then good for you but there is no Firefox based browser that can replace Vivaldi for me. So I use both, one for my power user needs and other for private browsing (hardened Firefox, normal FF isn't great for privacy either)
Havent used Vivaldi in some time. Have a look at floorp but of course they dont have all the addons vivaldi has like notes and stuff.
And yes, regular FF is simply a "just works" browser but with lots of stupid bloat. Librewolf is actually great as they have a modern CI/CD build pipeline and do all the hardening for you, its more sustainable and secure to share effords.
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