• Senshi@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 months ago

        Which still is based on Firefox, like down if other great derivatives. All of those are great, and mostly up to personal preference.

        The important step is to get people out of the chromium universe in the first place. Sadly, Google puts their poison in at the well (=chromium), so a lot of formerly fantastic chromium-based secure and private browsers are now failing.

        • vsh@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          Librewolf is a Firefox fork designed for privacy. In comparison with Firefox it doesn’t send external calls, has 0 telemetry and uBlock is already included.

          Palemoon’s peak is over, but still has adventage over FF or Chrome. Less vulnerabilities, XUL add-ons support, UI is hit or miss but it can use GTK2 instead of 3, more customizability, low memory usage and smaller codebase.

    • vinhill@feddit.de
      1·
      8 months ago

      Actually, what is the reason that Firefox seems to be preferred over Chromium? Is it the license? The control Alphabet has over it?

      One has to agree that there is a lot more money poured into chromium, the code is more modern and easier embeddable, it is more feature-complete.

      Though, it’s good to have two independent browser engines and a non-profit (+for-profit subsidiary) dedicated to a free, open, user-focussed browser.

  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
    191·
    8 months ago

    Or use Firefox, a browser not made by the same guys who want to create a monopoly on web browsers.

      • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, but they do a lot of good stuff for the open internet, and they respect user freedom and privacy. Unlike Google, they allow you to use proper adblockers and don’t want to screw you over with this MV3 bullshit.

  • maynarkh@feddit.nl
    12·
    8 months ago

    I love how the Chrome logo is literally a camera shutter looking at you, with Chromium the same but in camo. Really gets the message across.

  • itscozydownhere@lemmy.world
    132·
    8 months ago

    I tried to download Chromium but it’s a mess. No way a regular user will be able to download and install it. The will to do it will fade pretty quickly

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
        3·
        8 months ago

        It’s that easy on Windows as well, depending on the package manager you prefer the commands are

        Winget (native)

        winget install -e --id Hibbiki.Chromium

        Chocolatey (third party)

        choco install chromium-stable

        • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          8 months ago

          Winget is awesome! It’s nice to see Microsoft finally focusing on adding basic quality-of-life features to their OS. First there was Windows Terminal, then proper bash support with WSL, and now package management with Winget! To be fair, it’s not 100% there yet. Tried installing ffmpeg with winget recently, and it took like three times longer than apt-get would have. But hey, better than downloading EXE’s from some random website. Really excited for what they’ll add next. Who knows, maybe Windows will finally be a viable desktop OS some day!

          • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
            2·
            8 months ago

            I prefer my pacman being able to cd to a directory and install there rather than winget’s “-location direct path” but yeah Linux is faster and better for tech illiterate people like myself

            • renzev@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              2·
              8 months ago

              Linux is faster and better for tech illiterate people like myself

              For real tho, I could never come up with a good reason why I choose Linux over windows. But recently I tried Windows 11, and that finally made me understand. What are sticky keys? Why are you telling me the exchange rate of EUR to USD right now? Why do I need to put .\ in front of my username when signing in? Why can’t you just tell me that you want TPM and UEFI boot enabled instead of cryptically saying that my hardware is incompatible even though it is? There’s just too much crap going on for a dumb fuck like me to understand. I would like one boring linux desktop experience that hasn’t changed since 2003 please.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        41·
        8 months ago

        Firefox doesn’t fucking work with my daughter’s online school. This is a national school that multiple states are adopting as a state online school (meaning it is a public school and we don’t have to pay tuition) and we have to use Chrome because I can’t get it to work in Firefox and I hate Edge. Even worse, a bunch of materials from the school either don’t mention which browser to use or specifically say you can use either Firefox or Chrome. I spent like half an hour trying to figure out why it wasn’t working. I did updates, resets, anything I could think of, until my wife texted me and said maybe it has to be in Chrome. And yep, that worked.

        Of course, the school is run by Pearson, and they’re evil, so they probably have a deal with Google anyway.

        • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 months ago

          Damn, that sucks. I have always been keeping my school/university stuff in a separate browser, so maybe your daughter can use something like Ungoogled Chromium for school and Firefox for everything else.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            21·
            8 months ago

            I’ll look into it eventually, but we had to do this at the last minute because we had to get school started and she gets annoyed when I try to do anything on the notebook while she’s around.

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      8 months ago

      Flatpak (and flathub.org) has been a lifesaver for this, I use Ungoogled Chromium. Of course only for the few broken shitty websites that I’m forced to use

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    62·
    8 months ago

    Well they marketed it heavily and this is the result.

    Also no one is a loser for using a piece of software.

    • diffcalculus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      8 months ago

      Unless it’s Chrome or Windows. According to some folks, you might as well end it all now.

  • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
    4·
    8 months ago

    when i was in high school chrome had lots of school restrictions but chromium didnt. life saver for me, guy who did nothing in high school

  • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    8 months ago

    Except that the spyware is so intertwined into Google’s products that many websites straight-up break without them. Google Drive won’t even let you download stuff with third-party cookies disabled.

    • renzev@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      8 months ago

      Just install a de-googled Chromium fork (ungoogled-chromium or Brave), and create a separate browser profile for Google Drive? Then it doesn’t matter if you have third party cookies enabled or not, your browsing data is completely isolated for your main profile. That’s what I do for almost every proprietary web-app I use (Discord, youtube, shopping services, whatsapp web, f*cebook, etc.). The only issue is that the profile picker gets rather crowded, but to overcome that I wrote a rofi script that lets me launch chromium profiles directly

  • woodgen@lemm.ee
    21·
    8 months ago

    Good luck finding a Chromium build for non Linux based systems. Not that I would be affected by that.