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00:00 Introduction
00:26 Sponsor – Linode
01:38 Why don't you like Firefox?
03:42 What I expect from a web browser
05:03 Firefox forks
06:35 Revelation – GNOME Web
07:58 Google Chrome
08:47 Chrome
10:02 Brave
11:21 Vivaldi
12:46 Opera
13:26 Microsoft Edge
14:22 The complete benchmarks of “The FINAL CHOICE”

Let's start with the reasons why I want to switch from Firefox to something else.

First, Firefox adds advertisements to the browser.

Telemetry is enabled by default in Firefox.

Firefox pushes other services that I don't need, like Pocket.

Firefox doesn't integrate that well with Linux and doesn't really look like a native app unless you use custom userchrome.css, which may be disabled in the future. I like the Proton redesign, but it still doesn't really look like a native application.

Firefox's mobile app isn't that great on Android. On iOS, it's just a Safari wrapper, but the UI isn't that great either in my opinion.

So what do I expect from a browser, apart from a nice daily companion with which I can share my adventures on the wonderful Internet?

I want something that looks as native as possible on my desktop, something that looks like it uses GTK or Qt.

I don't need thousands of features and extensions: an ad blocker, syncing with an account to keep my passwords in sync between devices, or compatibility with a password manager, and that's it.

I need a mobile client with reasonable performance and a usable user interface.

I need decent performance so that things load relatively quickly and don't lag too much. Anything that is in the same performance class as Firefox is suitable for me.
RAM usage is irrelevant as I only use computers with 16GB of RAM or more, so my browsing never really poses a threat to that.

I want a browser that is private from the start, with no opt-out telemetry, in-browser ads, or data collection.

I want to avoid Chromium-based browsers if possible because Chromium, even though it's open source, is controlled by Google and that monopoly kind of scares me. If that's not possible, I'll live with it. Grumpy, but I'll live with it.

That's it! We may have to compromise on some of these points, so we'll give each browser a score. Let's see what's available.

Firefox benchmarks:
Version 93
123 trips per minute – speedometer
821.88 Movement mark
894.37 Base mark

WaterFox Benchmarks:
Version G4.0.1
109 runs/minute – speedometer
757.65 Movement mark
763.78 Base mark

Revelation Benchmarks:
Version 40.3
121 runs/minute – speedometer
324.60 Movement mark
721.31 Base brand

Google Chrome benchmarks:
Version 95.0.4638
165 trips per minute – speedometer
Motionmark could not be completed
1566.3 Base brand

chrome
Version 94.0.4606.81
142.9 trips per minute – speedometer
Motionmark could not be completed
1487.03 Base brand

Bold benchmarks
Version 1.30.87
127 runs/min speedometer
718.51 Movement mark
1168.89 Base mark

Vivaldi Benchmarks
Version 4.3.2439.63
Speedometer: 124 trips per minute
Motionmark cannot be completed
1288.73 Base mark

Opera benchmarks
Version 80.0.4170.16
Speedometer 135.2 trips/minute
Motionmark could not be completed
1240.1 Base brand

Microsoft Edge
Version 95.0.1020.40
Speedometer 141 trips per minute
Motionmark cannot be completed
1354.3 Base brand

https://winbuzzer.com/2020/03/17/researchers-say-microsoft-edges-telemetry-has-the-worst-privacy-of-any-major-browser-xcxwbn/

https://winbuzzer.com/2020/03/20/microsoft-responds-to-researchers-claim-that-edge-is-the-worst-for-privacy-xcxwbn/

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