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Chromium Vs. Gecko (f-droid.org)
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I know most of the answers here, prefer Gecko over Chromium because Google is a monopoly, but honestly I would like to make the switch, the bad thing is that I still find the Firefox interface on Android old, I know it seems a bit silly to risk a little privacy for a comfortable and visually pleasing interface, but recently I saw that Chromium forks are even more secure than those using Gecko, that's why I still use Cromite

I take this opportunity to say that possibly the solution to this is WebLibre, a browser based on Gecko which is exactly what I'm looking for, unfortunately still in alpha but from what I've seen it's on the right track

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[–] webkitten@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I use Fennec and Nightly on Android, mostly because of extensions. On desktop, I've been using Vivaldi.

Personally I feel that XUL Gecko > Vivaldi Chromium > Current Gecko. Especially since Vivaldi's built in tracker and ad blocker is really good and Chromium feels much smoother than current Gecko. I do hate that it's propping up Chromium market-share, but at least I can set up Vivaldi to use their own custom user agent.

I feel that Gecko/Firefox lost so much with the switch away from XUL and to WebExtensions.

[–] leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Pardon my ignorance, what's a XUL Gecko?

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The old extension platform before the switch to WebExtensions. I was just saying Firefox pre-Quantum was better than post-Quantum (after the switch to WebExtensions and away from XUL extensions).

[–] leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

I see. Thank you for a clarification!