I switched to Brave Browser

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[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Firefox has a god awful amount of spy crap by default. They'd probably call it 'anonymized telemetry', but it records every time you close a tab, for instance. Then, everything that seems to be security, has the dual purpose of collecting you r information, because you can't know if a website/download is malware, without sending your every link, or hash of every link, to Google, or some super good-deed doing, better not question them totally not a 3 letter government front, security promoting non-profit conglomerate...

It is so bad, that it is an integral part of the browser, so much so that forks struggle to turn it all off and the whole browser is an insecure turd because of its fundamental creation around spying on you....the chromium engine; a turd with a shiny outside.

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It seems kind of abrupt how you switch the subject to Chromium in the last sentence.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Firefox uses the Chromium engine under the hood. Firefox, more specifically, uses the Quantum browser engine flavor of Chromium.

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Okay, your post makes more sense that way, but where are you getting this information from? There's no such thing as 'the Chromium engine'. Chromium uses Blink but I can't find any source that says Quantum is based on Blink.

Firefox, more specifically, uses the Quantum browser engine flavor of Chromium.

This is a BS statement. Quantum is a browser engine, Chromium is a browser.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You seem to misunderstand some basics that Wikipedia and a little googling could clear up, but the situation is confusing and some members of the situation have incentive to confuse about their place in it.

Quantum is private customized version of Google's open source Chromium browser engine. Firefox would like to think that this means it is not based on Chromium.

The Chromium browser engine is not to be confused with the browser "Google Chrome" and the browser "Chromium," both of which are, of course, based on the Chromium engine.