Chromium has better features, but with google announcing its plan to ‘drm the internet’ I 'm not sure if it’d be a good idea.

  • @simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    71•2 years ago

    What better features? Firefox has pretty much everything nowadays, and is as fast as Chrome.

    • OtterEnglish
      54•2 years ago

      From the comments I’m noticing a trend

      • Google Chromecast issues
      • Not allowed to do background effects in Google meet

      and from personal experience:

      • issues using the store to update add-ons on Google docs
      • can’t authenticate desktop Google drive

      I use a lot of Google products, but avoid Chrome because of nonsense like this. Firefox works fine for everything else EXCEPT certain Google products. Feels intentional

      • Sabata11792
        46•2 years ago

        100% intentional. If you spoof your browser signature most work just fine

        • LemminaryEnglish
          11•2 years ago

          Same with Edge and Microsoft with their Bing bullshit. Big anticonsumer bullies and they wonder why their online share is stuck.

      • @pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        The only time I use chromium is to attach a debugger to GWT (yes, the “G” stands for Google). It runs like absolute trash in Firefox.

        Everything else runs better in FF.

      • Aggy
        2•2 years ago

        I have the same experience. At my last company they only used Google meet so I had chrome on my computer just for meetings and nothing else.

    • metaStatic
      19•2 years ago

      This is exactly why companies spend money on marketing, people remember these ideas and internalize them as their justification long after it stops being true. And Chrome being fast hasn’t been true for a long time.

      • @iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        It still wins most benchmarks, so it’s technically true. Although not really enough to matter on desktop where it’s millisecond differences

        • LemminaryEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          I can confirm this, Chrome wins the benchmark tests and some CSS rendering but lags behind in DX. I’m not sure where OP got the idea that Firefox has fewer features from a developer POV.

    • @AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Firefox always memory bloats out on me. Mobile app crashes.

      I switched to Brave then moved to Vivaldi. I’ll revisit if FF gets more stable.

    • @lonke@feddit.nuEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Native procedural dark mode, Developer CSS Overview, browser extension file access.

      I use Firefox exclusively except for when the second one is useful. I really wish Firefox had those three though.

    • Marks
      2•2 years ago

      Edge’s vertical tabs and grouping. Every solution on Firefox feels half-baked.

    • GeekFTW
      1•2 years ago

      Chromium browsers have only 1 feature I need: access to the Chromecast API. I have 3, Firefox can’t connect to them and the last 2-3 times I tried the listed 3rd party methods (fx bridge, etc), I could never get it to work.

      Were it not for that, I’d be back on Firefox.

      • OtterEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        That’s part of why I avoided getting new Chromecast devices 😄

        • metaStatic
          0•2 years ago

          well? what do you have? I would love to flush my chromecasts but they’re so useful.

          • @king_tronzington@lemm.eeEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            If you ever find one let me know because I’m in the exact same boat as you. Casting videos to my TV is so damn convenient

      • DaveEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        I had a similar need, and it prevented me from moving to FireFox for a long while. Luckily, I did manage to get fx_cast to work, and it’s been flawless ever since. In fact, I’d say it work more reliably than Chrome’s casting!

        • @TheGreenGolem@lemm.eeEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          Trust me, I’ve tried everything there is. For hours, literally. Nothing worked.

          (Casting from Firefox (beta) on Android.)

          • @redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
            3•2 years ago

            That’s a bummer. Personally, I use an app made to cast web video on android because it has better casting experience (including subtitles support) and wider range of supported websites. The dev is also responsive and would push a fix if you report any site where it doesn’t work: Web Video Caster

    • @Rooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0•2 years ago

      even more you can import google addons into firefox ( right now only in nightly builds but it works )