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Should I use chromium based browsers or firefox? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by wtry@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Chromium has better features, but with google announcing its plan to 'drm the internet' I 'm not sure if it'd be a good idea.

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[–] sv1sjp@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There are a lot of articles exposing each option. Personally I prefer chromium based browsers because they support full site isolation (sandboxing) of each tab.

[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you mean sandboxing? Isn't this just Firefox's project Fission, which is already implemented?

[–] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's done for Windows, in work on Linux and android as far as I know. Android is really bad , Linux so so . I use Firefox on Linux but not android. mainly since you get both chromium webview and Firefox , but Sandboxing an issue as well.

[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Android I use Vanadium, I think there is a lot of work to be done for mobile still.

[–] TheBenCommandments@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I’d love a desktop version of Vanadium once they get the adblocking working better

[–] odium@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I tried googling about Chrome containerization of tabs and found nothing. Can you elaborate?

In fact, searching "chrome tab containerization" only results in discussions asking if there's a way to use something like firefox's containers on chrome. -

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also isn't that what Firefox containers do?

It's not per tab, but I don't see how that would be useful. I add specific topics and then make / destroy the containers as needed.

It's already annoying enough logging into the sites per container, I can't imagine doing that every time I open a tab.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the even better sandboxing. You can only give access to the groups container.

[–] Jaggle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's one of the main features of Vivaldi