Walter must be talking about the freedom to spy on people.

Yes, absolutely. I like how they make browser as a private place for the users. And ofc with the smooth and faster browse. If we want to connect it into google acc, we also can do it in firefox. Privacy and security, checked. Faster browse, checked. Integrated to Google, they also can do that for your preference

I just checked it on my PC, the usage of Firefox was 3 times bigger than chrome. BUT then i found out that Chrome had 2 more usage in the background. So, if I count the 3 usage in total, Firefox showed up with less consumption of RAM. And also i prefer Firefox than Chrome.

I don’t like Chrome because it imposes too many rules and it isn’t a safe browser. It doesn’t need to know where I am visiting and It does a good job of saving passwords for other sites, but they save it to the internet instead of to the browser on my own system. I don’t like them having access to my accounts on other sites . . . they got hacked once and that shows me they aren’t anymore secure than any other browser or internet site. And I certainly don’t trust them with information about my family, friends or anyone elses’ information. They are as nosy and bossy as Microsoft

and Firefox sucks compared to chrome honestly. people talk shit abt chrome just cuz GooGLe BaD,

and Firefox doesn’t have quality extensions or support for TTS, ( they have TTS ad-ons) , and firefox crashes on me all the time, and chrome does n’, or my favorite one – “Firefox is the worst browser ever, it’s ridiculous how much problems I have now with pages slowing browsers down, always youtube. Also sick and tired of these so called IT experts with their useless knowledge and solution”

Choosing what browser and search engine you use ( how you do research and find answers to social civil environments political scientific issues)

Using the market share of a browser or search engine as a argument for using it, (whether or not its secure, designed well, accurate, correct, ethical and objective) , is a fallacy, and a clear example of Groupthink. Slavery and smoking were once quite popular, along subjugation of woman, belief in earth centered solar system

Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. Google runs code on approximately 85% of sites on the Web and inside as many as 94% of apps in the Play store. It collects data about users’ every click, tap, query, and movement from all of those sources and more. Add the mobile phone into the mix with location on they will track everything you. Freedom again right?

Coincidentally according to a 2021 Pew research At the same time, a majority of Americans report being concerned about the way their data is being used by companies (79%) or the government (64%). Most also feel they have little or no control over how these entities use their personal information, according to a new survey.

And yet just about the same percentage use the very software the takes their data, and laud the company….ahh America….

Enter Google Chrome….

Google’s Ad Manager product (formerly Doubleclick for Publishers) is the equivalent of AdMob for the web. Developers install Google’s code on their websites, and the code makes requests to Google and other ad exchanges with your identifying cookie as well as other information. Again, Google sends data out into the ecosystem, and advertisers send money back.

Google also shares data with advertisers in other, less direct ways, such as by “cookie matching,” which lets third-party adtech companies connect their own tracking cookies to Google’s identifier. It has even been caught setting up “workarounds” to keep its non-consensual data-sharing measures active in jurisdictions where they should be illegal, like the EU.

Enjoy Chrome :
The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement.

May the third party cookie enjoy a slow death. But wait there’s more!

Google is leading the charge to replace third-party cookies with a new suite of technologies to target ads on the Web. Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), which is perhaps the most ambitious—and potentially the most harmful.

FLoC is meant to be a new way to make your browser do the profiling that third-party trackers used to do themselves: in this case, boiling down your recent browsing activity into a behavioral label, and then sharing it with websites and advertisers. The technology will avoid the privacy risks of third-party cookies, but it will create new ones in the process. It may also exacerbate many of the worst non-privacy problems with behavioral ads, including discrimination and predatory targeting.

Make no mistake, if Google does follow through on its plan to implement FLoC in Chrome, it will likely give everyone involved “options.” The system will probably be opt-in for the advertisers that will benefit from it, and opt-out for the users who stand to be hurt.

Google will surely tout this as a step forward for “transparency and user control,” knowing full well that the vast majority of its users will not understand how FLoC works, and that very few will go out of their way to turn it off. It will pat itself on the back for ushering in a new, private era on the Web, free of the evil third-party cookie—the technology that Google helped extend well past its shelf life, making billions of dollars in the process.

The Chrome browser, if it wasn’t before, is essentially a behavior collector that categorizes you and your activity and interests inferring who you are then modifying that behavior thru adds and real time biding making you cannon fodder for the the add and marketing industry. And then Google notorious for biases towards Google products and acquired companies, add laden, Google’s Chrome browser is still monitoring every website you visit and feeding that into its algorithm. The information stays on your device, but it’s still being gathered. For those who want less surveillance from tech companies, I would suggest reconsidering your decision.

Enjoy your Chrome browser.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

And now Firefox 96, I’ll remove all telemetry, and any google links including their crap search search engine.

Meanwhile There are 30 or so search engines out there. If you want get at objective irrefutable facts try using them. They are search engines not truth engines !

As far as Firefox goes, back in 2021 Google made them an offer they couldn’t refuse. This is what happens google consumes the maket and was allowed to do so lke Amazon soon well be left with one shitty company AmaGoogle …. total crap… why? because we\ you the consumer wanted convenience and we were to busy being entertained .

Mozilla laid off 25 percent of its staff but it has now secured the majority of its funding for the next three years thanks to a new Google search deal.

As The Register reports, Mozilla is thought to have secured in the region of $400 to $450 million a year over the 2021-2023 period, in return for shipping Google as the default search engine with Firefox. The majority of Mozilla’s income (over 90 percent) is generated from relationships with search engines and Google has always been top of the list. However, Mozilla also has/had search relationships with other tech companies.

Wow, you cant make this up.

Lul chrome has a ton of crashes and not user friendly experience. Especially add-ons, that will not work as intended/do not get affected by any setting changes (even from Google itself, like google translate). Easy crash when there is more than 10 pages opened at 1 window. Memory usage is x2-x3 compared to Firefox/opera/even edge(wtf). Oh and of course even small changes in it’s version installed can cause bugs in ui. Met that several times, where there is some component not showing as intended in someone’s chrome, and the reason was their version (not even global version difference).
And yeah, tracking of all your activity is another reason why chrome sucks

I access my email through a web browser 10 to 20 times per day. With Firefox the standard advertisements on the Microsoft Outlook web page that compete with a person’s e-mail for viewing, slow down the browsing experience 100%. I find I have to refresh the page 5, 6 and 7 times, in order for Outlook to fully reflect the changes I have just made to my emails, whether it be deleting items from the deleted items folder or the sent folder or the inbox.

With Firefox, Microsoft’s distracting unnecessary money motivated (not user friendly) advertisements don’t even appear. So, with the advertisements gone from the page, Microsoft issues a small statement in a box to upgrade to Ad-Free Microsoft Outlook. Why, when Firefox gets the job done for me.

Firefox is clearly the winner with this user.

Hi Roger, thank you for your personal insights. Answering your questions — it’s not at all wrong using Firefox over chrome. It’s one’s personal choice. There is nose to nose competition between the browsers to be the best in the market and both Chrome vs. Firefox outsmart each other in different aspects. One of the primary reasons why (majority) people choose Chrome over firefox is the ability to use and stay connected with Google and its Free product offerings. That’s all.