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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

  • Katherine 🪴@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    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.

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
    3·
    7 hours ago

    Aside from my Pixel 7a, the rest of my phones and tablets are either old or originally low-spec budget models. This forces me to use Chromium-based browsers like Cromite since the performance penalty for Gecko-based ones becomes very apparent.

    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours ago

      And Cromite is my example of how the problem with Chrome is not the rendering engine tech, but the motivations of pthe people driving it. Cromite is an excellent alternative to gecko.

      Back when I was very young, my software development philosophy was build your software on an Amiga 3000 and test it on an Amiga 500. Why? So that you can make it as efficient as possible while building it on the most user-friendly tools.

      I still don’t understand why this is not a thing. Just because memory is cheap and CPUs are fairly cheap does not mean we should just go blindly using it all up so we can spend more money on the next more powerful set of CPUs and ram.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    18 hours ago

    I mostly use Firefox because it lets you bookmark a page without overwriting an existing bookmark. I have a lot of bookmarks and they sometimes need to be in multiple folders, but Blink-based browsers only let you create duplicates by manually copying a bookmark and pasting it elsewhere.

    I’m finding certain security features being lacking from Firefox to be annoying. I should be able to set JIT javascript compiliation and DRM to be opt-in on a per-site basis considering the security risks in those codebases, especially considering the weaker security of the Gecko engine.

    I’m also concerned about the prospect of the only browser engine besides Webkit being Blink, but if that were my only issue I could spoof my user agent.