Vanadium is a great browser and there is nothing inherently bad about it. I also use GrapheneOS, but I prefer Firefox for the uBlock and Dark Reader extensions as well as syncing with my other devices.
Question: what do people have against chromium? I understand not liking Chrome specifically, but what's the issue with non-Google chromium? I use Brave on my PC and phone, and Edge for work.
As for Firefox, I love and appreciate what they are doing and what they stand for. I tried using it and had one bad experience, where I was doing some web dev and encountered a bug that drove me crazy trying to fix, only to find it was a bug with FF itself. So I switched to Brave for development, and then I liked it and haven't switched back. So, not to say that one little bug "ruined" FF for me, I just haven't had any reason to stop using Brave.
Said company is in the ad business, so they don't have the best incentives for privacy
Said company are well known for pulling stunts to get people using their browser (i.e. using web rendering techniques that is fast on their browser but painfully slow on others)
Having a monopoly in an area is bad for us users
Meanwhile, I'm glad folks on here are very pro-Firefox as well as not shitting on Chrome users. I was afraid it was going to be thls (except replace "invented Comic Sans" with "uses Chrome") https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html
That's fair, but FYI for ad block specifically, Brave has it built in rather than as an extension so it works regardless of manifest v3. I think the same is true for Vivaldi but I can't say from experience how it compares
Firefox. It's faster and more lightweight than chrome and has bigger fonts. I find chrome's label's eye-straining. Also it's not owned by Google or Microsoft. DuckDuckGo on mobile because I don't like the mobile version of Firefox, and I can delete all cookies using the fire button (On my laptop Cookie AutoDelete does that for me.)
I was looking for private browsers, and found myself astonished at how the market is saturated in Chromium-based browsers, and how every website seems to only support theses browsers, so I had to accept that Chromium will be all there is until a new big thing appears, and wound up finding a Chromium fork that seems to remove all google aspects from it. I've had to tweak a few things but the experience has been very smooth so far.
the market is saturated in Chromium-based browsers, and how every website seems to only support theses browsers
Outside of Google blocking some of their websites from Firefox (the only one I can think of currently is Stadia Bluetooth Mode), which websites do you find that only support Chrome? I haven't found any.
Firefox mostly. I want multiple rendering engines to be viable. Plus it has the plug ins I want on Android and still syncs to desktop. The one problem is chromecasting to the tv from windows. I wish there was a plug in that would let me do that.
This is basically my reasons exactly. I use edge as a backup when a page doesn't work in Firefox, but use Firefox primarily because I don't want the web to be defined by blink's implementation. Plugins on Android, while limited, are unbeatable.
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