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Daily reminder that Firefox is customizable to the point of removing Mozilla's telemetry and making it look and feel almost like Chromium. And no, de-Googled Chromium probably isn't enough because preliminary code for implementing WEI has been pushed upstream (basically they added the code which makes it possible for WEI to be implemented, strongly suggesting they're intending to actually implement it upstream and not in Chrome)
So degoogled chromium will have WEI? WTF! Deleting it now.
Another vote for Firefox. Just switched over from chromium based, and i could easily port over all my info and bookmarks and shit, and it feels great to not support a monopoly
Do you have any tips or articles or anything you could share or recommend to make Firefox more like Chromium? I'm really struggling with Firefox glitching and hanging and having lots of issues and have for years but at this point that's better than the nonsense Google is pulling I guess.
The key search term is "userChrome" (userChrome.css and userChrome.js) and XUL, which is the HTML-like language FF uses to define its chrome. "Chrome" is a term that predates Google's browser, referring to the interface surrounding the displayed web content and Firefox still uses that internally.
Right now mine is pretty minimal, but there's a lot you can change. Essentially, the interface is a kind of HTML page which can use the same features as normal HTML and can even run custom JavaScript. Also look into BetterFox for how to remove Mozilla's own telemetry and bloat.
My userChrome.css for reference;
spoiler
I found this repo which is supposed to apply Chromium styles in line with Google's Material Design guidelines.
Here's an article I found with some simple tweaks.
@mooncabbage @ConsciousCode
Try #Vivaldi?
Vivaldi is based on Chromium.
And has been far less polished than Firefox in my experience