I believe the browser makes very little difference. They are all awful/slow/insecure without a good ad blocker, script blocker and cookie blocker. Who cares if one is a few percent faster, when you are loading crap from dozens of domains? More threads doesn't matter to me because I'm blocking all the slow crap.
Firefox just blew it by disabling the plug ins. I didn't give a crap about their features, so long as it worked well enough. I cared a HUGE AMOUNT about uBlock, noscript and disconnect. I'll stay on my current version for as long as it takes for plug in devs to catch up. I don't care how many years that takes.
A raspberry pi is a better fit for apps like this. For some reason, intel can only think in terms of windows. Windows is huge overhead and security leak, and should only be used if a critical app requires it.
The world is turning to android/linux and arm processors. Intel is looking desperately for relevancy.
Why does anyone think the actual browser even matters? The internet is painful/unusable without noscript, u-block and a good cookie blocker. (Or similar which do the same.)
I use firefox because of these plug ins. If another browser has the same function, I'll consider using it. But going "naked" is dangerous and painfully slow.
If you are blocking the junk, all the browsers are fairly similar in perf. If you sit all day watching dozens of scripts load from many domains, you are the lowest of the uninformed newbie users.
Why does anyone think the actual browser even matters? The internet is painful/unusable without noscript, u-block and a good cookie blocker. (Or similar which do the same.)
I use firefox because of these plug ins. I have stopped updating because they are intentionally breaking them. If another browser allows the same function, I'll consider it. But going "naked" is dangerous and painfully slow.
If you are browsing like a pro, all the browsers are fairly similar in perf. If you sit all day watching dozens of scripts load from many domains, you are the lowest of the uninformed newbie users.
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I believe the browser makes very little difference. They are all awful/slow/insecure without a good ad blocker, script blocker and cookie blocker. Who cares if one is a few percent faster, when you are loading crap from dozens of domains? More threads doesn't matter to me because I'm blocking all the slow crap.
Firefox just blew it by disabling the plug ins. I didn't give a crap about their features, so long as it worked well enough. I cared a HUGE AMOUNT about uBlock, noscript and disconnect. I'll stay on my current version for as long as it takes for plug in devs to catch up. I don't care how many years that takes.
A raspberry pi is a better fit for apps like this. For some reason, intel can only think in terms of windows. Windows is huge overhead and security leak, and should only be used if a critical app requires it. The world is turning to android/linux and arm processors. Intel is looking desperately for relevancy.
Why does anyone think the actual browser even matters? The internet is painful/unusable without noscript, u-block and a good cookie blocker. (Or similar which do the same.)
I use firefox because of these plug ins. If another browser has the same function, I'll consider using it. But going "naked" is dangerous and painfully slow.
If you are blocking the junk, all the browsers are fairly similar in perf. If you sit all day watching dozens of scripts load from many domains, you are the lowest of the uninformed newbie users.
Why does anyone think the actual browser even matters? The internet is painful/unusable without noscript, u-block and a good cookie blocker. (Or similar which do the same.) I use firefox because of these plug ins. I have stopped updating because they are intentionally breaking them. If another browser allows the same function, I'll consider it. But going "naked" is dangerous and painfully slow. If you are browsing like a pro, all the browsers are fairly similar in perf. If you sit all day watching dozens of scripts load from many domains, you are the lowest of the uninformed newbie users.