A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

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    8 months ago

    Different people have different use cases. I am not sure what point you are making beyond that it does not fit your set up.

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      8 months ago

      What I wrote?

      • no container support
      • no stored session = not a browser normal people will switch to
      • not more hardened or privacy optimized than librewolf
      • no profile support too I guess, because private browsing.

      But sorry your statement is correct, it is a privacy focused version of Firefox.

      But not sure what the “use more to separate activities” means, I try to do that with containers and mail aliases and its already complicated. Running and updating 2 browser engines will not help here.

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        8 months ago

        Such as using socials on 1, banking on another.

        Also, a browser for your searches. I guess containers could do that but my understanding you still can get finger printed easily plus I could not get to use them consistently. Having different browsers made it easier, at least for me.

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          8 months ago

          Containers are persistent and you can also use 2 profiles of the same browser and add a desktop entry to launch them separately.

          Using separate browsers really is no good practice.

          Fingerprintability may be already given by your IP.

          Also the fingerprint defender addons help with randomizing some identifiers and fool naive scripts

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            8 months ago

            Good VPN for IP issue.

            “Using separate browsers really is no good practice.” can someone provide some support for this?

            Mullvad Browser lets you reset the finger print with a click of button.

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              8 months ago

              No that clears browser data, the fingerprint is very complex. If you mean cookies, Librewolf and Firefox can delete all but you can add exceptions where you want to stay logged in. Very handy, also not there in private browsing.

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                8 months ago

                For me its way easier to use a different browser for each use case. Librewolf for something, Mullvad for something else, also Brave, also Vivaldi. 4 different browsers are making my life seriously easy. Why would I stick to 1 browser with many profiles? If something breaks in that one browser (which happens quite often) all I have to do is fire up a different one and try again. Different people different use cases, different streamlines.

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                  8 months ago

                  If your browser breaks I hope another profile is not broken? Running 4 browsers at a time is seriously problematic for RAM, attack surface, updates etc.

                  I will do a post on introducing firefox profiles (as they are hidden away) and GUI integration into desktops

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                    8 months ago

                    Cool. Thanks man. I’m always willing to pick other brains to lessen my ignorance. Looking forward to that post.