Firefox remains the best choice. It doesn't send data to Google or someone else to monitor what sites you visit and other things which Chrome might be doing.
Firefox also allows you to use AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Ghostery and a few other addons to improve security, lower bandwidth usage and improve performance.
I really hate these studies paid by other companies. Where's the "don't be evil", Google? Are you afraid that Firefox will kill your beloved monitoring tool Chrome?
Why does Chrome have a unique ID? Isn't this meant to identify you in a very precise way by attaching the browser unique ID to the gmail account?
I recall looking up a way to remove it and found something for Chrome 8-9. However, that "field" has now been merged into some other field and you can't remove it without losing all the data.
>Firefox remains the best choice. It doesn't send data to Google or someone else to monitor what sites you visit and other things which Chrome might be doing.
Chrome does not do this. Here is a link to the Chrome privacy policy listing all communication with Google and settings to disable such communication: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html
>Firefox also allows you to use AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Ghostery and a few other addons to improve security, lower bandwidth usage and improve performance.
I'm glad to hear that you're a happy Firefox user and agree that they support a very diverse extension ecosystem.
>I really hate these studies paid by other companies.
This is one of the perils with commissioning an objective third-party assessment. Simply put, the results might include things you really didn't want to hear. However, all the data, methodology, and tools are publicly available. If you think there's a legitimate issue with the study, then please investigate further.
I always had my suspicions about using Chrome, but could never prove it. In Google's business model, the user is the product, so I always question their free software and how my data is being harvested.
Do you happen to have any links about Chrome's unique ID? I would love to read more about it...
Chromium doesn't (necessarily) send data to Google. As far as safety, it should be comparably safe to Chrome, since beyond branding, the differences between the two browsers are slight.
Last time this came up, I believe the Moz engineers said that it doesn't anymore, as long as you download it directly from google, but it does if you get chrome from downloading it with mcaffee or whatever (which makes it like three bad things at once).
Firefox also allows you to use AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Ghostery and a few other addons to improve security, lower bandwidth usage and improve performance.
I really hate these studies paid by other companies. Where's the "don't be evil", Google? Are you afraid that Firefox will kill your beloved monitoring tool Chrome?
Why does Chrome have a unique ID? Isn't this meant to identify you in a very precise way by attaching the browser unique ID to the gmail account?