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Firefox looks so much better than Chrome (tux.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's all true, but why take a modified chromium instead of a modified Firefox?

Also clearurls and decentraleyes would be pretty much useless with Firefox and uBlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s all true, but why take a modified chromium instead of a modified Firefox?

Because chromium rendering is better than Firefox's and I personally like the dev tools better and my usual target audience in dev uses Chrome. I have LibreWolf as the secondary browser but I don't see me ever liking the way Firefox renders the web.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Because chromium rendering is better than Firefox

Got any examples of popular websites that render better on Chrome?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I personally prefer Firefox's rendering, or even Edge's old and long deprecated EdgeHTML (Trident fork) renderer.

IME Chrome performs way too much antialiasing on graphics that are not to scale, and their default font hinting technique doesn't match Windows or even common Linux distro defaults.

It feels a lot like the enhanced speed and performance come from the shortcuts taken in the renderer, akin to Safari... except that Safari also opts to just refuse implementing new APIs and draft specs.

Text heavy sites in particular are not really that nice to read in Chrome for me personally.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago

Usually it’s not about entire websites, it’s the small detail like the font rendering smoothness and a few others.