Mozilla is making Firefox faster to compete with Chrome (theverge.com) 14 points by digitalnalogika 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] m463 7y ago ↗ Why not just make it better instead of faster?For example, eliminate tracking from the beginning, and have sensible opt-ins to build trust.Chrome is not trustworthy because google makes money from identifying you and selling that information, and they build that into the browser. [–] sieabahlpark 7y ago ↗ I think their main goal is to do what chrome did at release. Sandboxing tabs and isolating hanging tabs from the rest of the browser. [–] silversconfused 7y ago ↗ GNU icecat is a nice firefox fork with all the call home bits disabled at build time.
[–] sieabahlpark 7y ago ↗ I think their main goal is to do what chrome did at release. Sandboxing tabs and isolating hanging tabs from the rest of the browser.
[–] silversconfused 7y ago ↗ GNU icecat is a nice firefox fork with all the call home bits disabled at build time.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 22.4 ms ] threadFor example, eliminate tracking from the beginning, and have sensible opt-ins to build trust.
Chrome is not trustworthy because google makes money from identifying you and selling that information, and they build that into the browser.