Moved from Firefox to Chromium

swarfendor437 · 2025-03-05 15:35

I guess I should have stuck with the default choice of Chromium when installing Q4OS. There has been an interesting thread on a different forum about the new TOU with the latest Firefox. Mozilla have done some backpedalling since the first announcment but still looks dodgy to me:

https://www.theverge.com/news/622080/mo … hatgpt.com

Have been attempting to install ungoogled-chromium which crashes on start ... because it has only been built for 'sid' not 'bookworm'.

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crosscourt · 2025-03-05 20:08

I have no issue with Firefox and Im satisfied with their clarification. I use both Chromium and Firefox with Firefox my go to.

tlmiller76 · 2025-03-06 05:33

I still use Firefox as my main browser, and have a heavily modified Brave as my chromium-based backup, as that's the only Chromium0-based browser that ublock origin still is fully functional on. And I just can't use the internet without ublock origin anymore. All the other blockers just....suck...compared to it IMO.

Midas · 2025-03-06 14:02

FWIW, Firefox(-esr) has been my main driver for years now (after it being Seamonkey, previously) -- with Vivaldi as fallback when a Chrome-based browser is required...

crosscourt · 2025-03-06 20:00

Ive tried a number of the forks of Firefox and honestly they are a mixed bag depending on what you are looking for. Overall Firefox is still a great experience and Brave is starting to grow on me.

bin · 2025-03-07 07:34

tlmiller76 wrote:

.....And I just can't use the internet without ublock origin anymore. All the other blockers just....suck...compared to it IMO.

Take a look at the hblock project.
https://github.com/hectorm/hblock
I came across it being used in EndeavourOS when I was testing it.
OK it builds a huge hosts file - and I do mean huge - but I ran into no issues with speed because of that.
Of course it is also system based so works with anything touching the net.
Just builds the hosts file from all the various sources of ads etc - but that's fine.

Midas · 2025-03-10 14:36

crosscourt wrote:

Ive tried a number of the forks of Firefox and honestly they are a mixed bag depending...

And FWIW, I can confirm -- that's why I settled for the ESR some time ago.

bin wrote:

hblock project.
https://github.com/hectorm/hblock
I came across it being used in EndeavourOS when I was testing it.

In Android, I have a somewhat similar hosts based blocking app named Adaway that very effectively prevents ad sources even showing. Coupled with privacy oriented Firefox Focus (or Klar), it works great.

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crosscourt · 2025-03-10 18:36

I saw some news from the devs at Zorin who are concerned about the direction Firefox is taking. They are looking at possibly changing their default browser to Brave.

Q1derous · 2025-03-12 08:38

Swarfendor
Have been attempting to install ungoogled-chromium which crashes on start

Also prefer the Ungargled version, but haven't had any crashing even though it's for Sid.

ungoogled-chromium from home:ungoogled_chromium project
https://software.opensuse.org//download … d-chromium

And looking forward to using Pale Moon again if it will work with Q4. Thankfully found it years ago after dropping FFox.

BTW ... just caught your upload on Vimeo a few days ago re/ the Trinity install. Also enjoyed the Tunguska track with light show.
https://vimeo.com/1042531858 (shameless plug for you)
Where did you source the track from? Will def. have to check them out.
Thanks for that!

swarfendor437 · 2025-03-15 21:57

I downloaded quite a few hours of there music back in about 2010-13 from jamendo dot com. Free for normal users. Apparently IKEA used to pay for piped music from jamendo so business uses have to be paid for but not for individuals. If you liked that video I got a like from TEMS themselves for my Sunrise video here:

https://vimeo.com/97644609

danielson · 2025-03-16 13:37

@Midas - interesting tip about Adaway, will definitely look into it.

Firefox is still default on Linux and Android.

Vivaldi and Brave and backup ones on both.

Find Vivaldi quite good for Android, but Ad-blocking isn't great.
So, this Adaway app might just do the trick!

Midas · 2025-03-17 15:00

danielson wrote:

So, this Adaway app might just do the trick!

Bear in mind that I'm root on all my phones -- and Adaway works great with it -- but it can also work without it, using Android's VPN functionality (I know non-root Blokada does it that way, too).

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