• 1984@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    It’s interesting how we all are focusing on tiny non-noticeable performance gains when privacy is what matters in browsers.

    Almost as if Google wants us to focus on performance where they can compete.

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      Performance absolutely matters. I’ve dropped firefox like 5 times in the past 10 years because either it’s stability with extensions was bad, or it handled tabs so poorly it felt like memory leaks dragging my entire PC down. At the end of the day you have to actually be able to use the browser.

      Performance absolutely matters.

      And I am trying firefox again and have experienced two crashes. i’m still giving it a chance but I need to stress that the most important thing is that it fulfills it’s main purpose, browsing . If my #1 concern was privacy I wouldn’t bother with the browsers altogether.

      edit: It is worth mentioning I don’t think performance has anything to do with privacy, and firefox could absolutely have both. It just hasn’t in my experience.

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        1 year ago

        Two crashes after you just installed it? That’s not normal at all. What system do you have?

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          The same people will have chrome eat ram or crash and just shrug and restart. It’s not about the browser. It’s the same “I use chrome because everyone else is insecure” “a zero day was reported for chrome last week” “yeah, everyone has bugs sometimes”. They have a narrative they want to believe and they self select to support it.