Firefox vs. Chrome

[TheDead]

I would like to use Midori more but it just crashes too much for me . So Firefox and Opera it is. I'll give Brave a try though.

[member=6960]Vera[/member]:
I used Opera since version 4 I think. And stopped using it at version 12, when then changed to use the same engine as Chrome.
I came back to Opera recently (on Windows at least) and had the Thumbnails from previous sites I visited by default, not cool! Have to click on the configuration button at the top right in the speed dial to disable "Suggested Sites".

[member=4446]banko[/member]:
Be it China or my own country, Governments spy on their people. I guess a fully "Libre"/open source browser would be a safer bet, maybe. Of using Tor... Scary stuff here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(sur...ce_program)

[member=5803]Ottawagrant[/member]:
I would strongly suggest you check your add-remove program list and also to a scan with the latest ADWCleaner from toolbit :
https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownl...dwcleaner/
You seem to have some weird plugins...

I just downloaded Firefox 55.0.3 x64 (on Windows because not at home) to check what you are saying.
Got it from here :www.firefox.com , green Download Firefox button.
It installed two Plugins : OpenH264 by Cisco and Widevine Content Decryption by Google. From the description, the two are video codecs.

Uninstalled and downloaded the Firefox 52.3 ESR x64 version from here :
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/or...tions/all/
It installed the same codecs on first run, but also detected my outdated Java 8 Update 77 and two Microsoft Office 2010 authorization and file editing plug-ins. Java and Office were in "Ask to Activate" by default.

Cheers!

-TheDead