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firefox uses the system to render text, chrome does it it self, that is why text looks better on firefox a lot of the time. firefox does not have PWA support. you can customize firefox a lot more then chrome like by a huge amount. Today, not so much. As Firefox have incorporated a lot of google chromium stuff into it.
shab-re. •• Edited. no, there are 4 browser engines that I know of. Blink used by chromium and chromium based browsers. Quantum/Gecko used by firefox and firefox based browsers. Webkit used by Safari and Epiphany browser (only on mac os and linux respectively) Goanna used by Pale Moon. and then there's lynx and surf.
It depends. Brave is really private out of the box, plus being a Chromium browser, it has all the performance benefits you'd expect from a Chromium browser. Firefox has the advantages and disadvantages of engine independence. It can be pushed even further than Brave in terms of "privacy hardness" but also has the downsides.
Seamonkey is also cool, runs exceptionally well on old machines with weaker hardware, specially if you install Linux. (Also runs fine on Win7 and even XP) I have tried waterfox and librewolf only and both are ok i use waterfox because it gets updated faster i think. The hard fork, Pale Moon.
Closest solutions are: Firefox Focus. Systemwide adblocker such as AdGuard Pro or NextDNS. 6. [deleted] • 2 yr. ago. Orion supports both Firefox and Chrome extensions on iOS, including uBO. It’s still in early development, but, incredibly, it actually works really well. Not sure if it’s yet suitable as a daily driver.
FF is a general purpose web browser for all users, LW is a niche spin of Firefox for a certain niche of users. FF is a mature independent browser based on its own browser engine, Librewolf is a very small project, that makes some changes to Firefox, it is not independent or comparable to FF. Possible concerns with update frequency, trust, or ...
In real Firefox' world, "hardening" is just a synonym of "customization" related to privacy/security settings. However, the hardening word has a subjective meaning, it's not good or bad per-se, such definition always depends on user-profile. For example, an user may believe that Firefox can be hardened by installing add-ons, but another user ...
besides firefox -no-remote another parameter is firefox -no-xshm which reveals the technique used to make it work. X11 shared memory is an interprocess communication technique which can be used by all applications connected to a given x server session. It can be used to perform drag & drop, and other kind of desktop interaction.
Firefox gives the impression that it eats RAM, but it appears to only use available RAM, so if I have a lot of programs running, it doesn't exceed it's boundaries, but fans will spin. It hasn't crashed on me on either platform, same number of windows and tabs open across multiple virtual desktops.
MOD. I'm switching from Firefox to Edge. Edge. I have been using Firefox for 12 years now while trying to avoid Chrome for all this time. But since the new chromium-based Edge was released it got my interest. I have been using it along with Firefox for a while and it just feels snappier and more responsive. I also love that some of my plug-ins ...