Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe… Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I’ll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true…
This looks like it good be a great replacement for Floorp. Thanks for sharing!
Their privacy is better than regular Firefox due to disabling telemetry etc, but librewolf does way more to protect against fingerprinting. The browser itself is quite good, although it shows that it’s in early development. Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting
Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting
Doesn’t this only make sense if it is off by default on that browser? I assume if it is on by default, most people will just keep it on, thus making users of that browser that turn it off stand out more. No?
Firefox doesn’t enable it by default, so if you turn it of any chance of being perceived as just another Firefox user is gone. It may not be a measurable difference but as basically no site respects it and those that do aren’t a big problem in the first place it doesn’t matter all that much
Idk much about the privacy features, but I’ve been using it for the past day and it’s way faster and better optimised then floorp.
Optimised for peak performance? Are there benchmarks to back this up?
Edit - their docs have benchmarks. They do not appear to have comparative benchmarks
edit - lol amazing
A bit more politeness goes a very long way.
Try being more civil, this will earn you way more support, especially since you want to change people’s minds.
Awfully rude just because you don’t like something that you have full control of deciding to use or not.
@Frozyre please keep it a bit friendly. I understand you are mad, but there’s no point in treating other people like this.
Try Floorp.
Also, maybe don’t compare clean chrome install to FF with a half dozen extensions installed. Extensions like Greasemonkey run literally any script you tell them to. An errant line of code and there goes your memory.
Try again, apples to apples dude.
“Moving the goal posts” I fail to see how I’m changing the conditions. I’m explaining a clear and obvious issue in that image which is why it’s not a good comparison.
Okay, extensions require container processes, for each one. Each new extension add to the RAM usage. For both Firefox and Chrome.
So already the comparison is flawed because Firefox now requires more base memory to load those extensions out the gate.
But now, Firefox is clearly showing Tampermonkey in the toolbar, a userscript extension. Let’s just say I run a script that fetches competing price info from temu.com when you browse a site like amazon. Not uncommon.
Let’s say I set that to loop, so it’ll work on infinite scroll pages too.
Okay, now if you leave your browser alone for an hour and it’s refreshing these scripts, guess what happens to the memory?
Every test of current builds of FF vs Chrome has found extremely negligible performance differences when both are stock installs.
