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[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 65 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 37 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

And if you don't like Firefox, use one of the Firefox forks. Some of them are very Chrome-like.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

FireDragon, Zen Browser, and LibreWolf. Zen feels like a streamlined Chrome.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 12 hours ago

Ah right. But none of them are true forks, really. They still rely on the Firefox project to port features in etc.

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They’re too strict, unless you have one that’s usable by default?

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

"Too strict" how? I don't know what's "usable" for you.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I used it, but Librewolf had a habit of showing the bitwarden extension's window at the wrong size.

I was able to fix this by disabling a "resist fingerprinting" setting, but it's annoying to have to do stuff like this in the first place. I really wanted to have an exceptions list that included certain websites for fingerprinting resistance, but I never found a clear way to do it.

There are a few other examples of settings that I had to tweak in order to make the experience as good as Firefox.

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

This: fingerprinting resistance is either too strict or none at all

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 points 40 minutes ago

Fingerprinting resistance is either too strict or none at all

Cookies are removed when the browser is closed, and iirc history isn’t saved by default. It just makes it a pain for regular users

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

or even better, use librewolf.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm not really sure it's better tbh