Mozillas newest malware, called Firefox, strikes again. - by zombe
zombe on 7/5/2019 at 01:37
Never heard of Chromium - quick Google search indicates to me that it is a closed source base of Chrome with fewer features and same dev. Also, even less trustworthy than Chrome.
For me, since Chrome just does not meet my requirements - not even close - i doubt Chromium is any better.
Speaking of autoplay. I vaguely remember a few rare things getting through autoplay blocking - which boggles my mind why Firefox allows that. But do not remember encountering any recently. Maybe uBlock kills the most offending ones or something. Don't know any sites that break due to the autoplay blocking either (Youtube is a bit wonky - but no real problems. Everything always works. It just shows some bogus error messages that do not actually affect anything) ... not anything i need to use anyway (i suspect i have come across some, but i probably assumed uBlock screwed something up or the host is just crap and left without giving it a second thought).
At least the "Mute sites by default" add-on never fails (it has a convenient whitelist system that you can make to auto update whenever you mute/unmute a tab).
heywood on 7/5/2019 at 18:05
Chromium is an open-source project. It was started by Google to build a browser based on Apple's WebKit, which itself is a fork of KDE's KHTML. Google later forked the core rendering engine of WebKit to create Blink, which is the current rendering engine for Chromium. Chromium is the base code for many different browsers including Chrome, Opera, Brave, Silk, and soon to be MS Edge. So I think it's relatively trustworthy. The main reason (IHMO) to consider Chromium over Chrome is that it's free of Chrome's telemetry. But it is somewhat light on built-in features.
Anyway, I have not tried the "mute sites by default" add-on, but I will, thanks.
I do use uBlock Origin. It still blocks a lot, but not as much as it once did. My biggest complaint with today's web is the trend of adding auto-play videos that follow you around the page as you scroll, covering up content as they do, and don't go away when you try to close them. Some of these are ads which uBlock helps prevent, but a lot of them are site content. I was relying on built-in Firefox auto-play blocking functionality, but that doesn't always work. Major commercial media sites are the ones that most frequently bypass (somehow) Firefox's auto-play blocking.
Independent Thief on 12/5/2019 at 13:05
You might try using Waterfox: (
https://waterfoxproject.org/en-US/)
Firefox based but with more privacy. Some good add ons are Ultimate adblocker, https everywhere, privacy badger and noscript.
WhiskeyBob on 25/5/2019 at 04:03
Using 47 portable Firefox with noscript addon. Did this after next FF update where they started to show some AD asking to donate them money over 1/3 screen on every tab.:)