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batpersontoday at 9:10 AM2 repliesview on HN

Edge user here. For one, chromium is faster than firefox, any given page will load about 20% faster, another reason is edge workspaces feature, I've grown to like it, which seems to be some sort of chromium feature that everyone bakes in weird ways if at all, and I'm still running ublock origin on edge without any funky bypasses.

Then there's a fact that a bunch of sites/webapps straight up refuse to work on firefox and they ask you to install chrome or something. And lastly chromium the most popular browser flavor and as a web dev it helps to see pages through "the same eyes" as my users/customers.

That's about it, the only reason I use firefox every day is their superior picture-in-picture player, chromium one is waaay inferior.


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lelanthrantoday at 10:47 AM

> Edge user here. For one, chromium is faster than firefox, any given page will load about 20% faster,

I'm skeptical; You're probably measuring Chromium + ads against FF + ads.

The only fair test is testing agains FF + uBlockOrigin. And there, FF wins hands down.

nchmytoday at 11:51 AM

Give Vivaldi a try. I used edge on windows and android ever since it started used chromium, and switched to Vivaldi on Linux and android 8 months ago. Generally quite happy with it - not really missing any features from edge.