After a long time of winter lethargy, and publications ... today I return with a very interesting post. Today since I stopped using Firefox, for performance reasons and some other things, and I set out to discover the world of Chrome, as I also touched a lot the balls, I say morality, morality, I started to use the middle term that is Chromium, and despite my surprise it is a great browser, in my opinion the best, as of now.
And the thing is that when I picked up Chromium, the first time, it was very flat and bland, but as I always do, I started looking for posts with good applications, optimizations, as it shares much of Chrome's code, there are apps to literally bore me. It happened to make you a series of posts to take your work off and encourage you to use this magnificent (half) browser.
Speed above all.
In this first post I will talk about different extensions such as ad blockers, anti-trackers, and extensions to make Chromium get addicted to sweets, what the hell, at one point this gets to touch a lot the ..., I say morality.
The Great Suspender
This application is one of the reasons why I use Chromium and it is that this application conserves our RAM by making the tabs "sleep" or stop working, saving RAM.
OneTab
Speaking of RAM conservers, this extension makes you gather all your tabs in one, thus conserving more RAM and more space for other things. A combo of OneTab and The Great Suspender is one of the best tips for saving memory and CPU.
uBlock Origin or uBlock0
Well this complement, I met it thanks to the post of a colleague of this blog, here I leave it. A quick summary is that it is not a simple ad blocker, it also blocks trackers, but it is super light and costs very little. In my opinion and that of many, he is the best
Blur (DoNotTrackMe)
Well, finally in the optimization and security section we have Blur or previously known as DoNotTrackMe, it is a very complete, very complete blocker of Internet tracker, it is not free (for the Taliban of "freedom"), it blocks and ensures a lot plus the web pages or "cobweb".
With these extensions I am sure that you will improve your experience in Chrome or Chromium, especially Chromium.
We smell each other in other posts. Bye
I'm going to try even if I get used to firefox ... it doesn't hurt
Well, if you use Chrome for its extensions, I'll tell you that Mozilla is working on an API or something like that to migrate extensions from Chrome to Firefox 😀
It talks about Chromium, not Chrome and, barring error or omission, it is not the same as far as I know.
In another vein, it doesn't say how to get sound in Chromium.
Chaparral, Chrome and Chromium are the same, so to speak they are twins, since Chromium is a project in which Google and the community contribute, Chrome is based on Chromium with closed add-ons such as Google Now extension or Widevine.
Hope it enlightened you a bit.
Thanks for the info elav, by the way there is a problem in wordpress that when I log into Chrome / Chromium it does not allow me to respond to comments like erUzama.
What a coincidence, a week ago I also gave up Firefox due to some problems and opted to use Chromium without much expectations and to my surprise it has done better than Firefox. To put my grain of sand in this good post there are some very good extensions, to mention only two there is Pocket (reading content offline), there is also Hover Zoom (just by hovering the mouse the images are enlarged).
Thanks for the apps and the feedback, I will see those apps and include them elsewhere.
The first thing I do when installing a distro is to uninstall Chromium since it makes me unbearably slow when it comes to browsing. Let's see if with these tricks I give it a new chance xD
Well, as soon as I installed Chromium it seemed to me that Firefox was faster and when I returned to Firefox it seemed to me that Chromium was much faster. Ufff, faced with such a dilemma, I decided to definitely stay with Firefox and thus have the entire Mozilla family with his spouse Thunderbird. xD
"(For the Taliban of" freedom ")", that was very ugly ...
Certainly, he could also have said "for human rights defenders" because freedom is a right you are born with, but you have to work hard to maintain it. Some add up and others don't.
I'm sorry 🙁 if I am rude but there are some people who are exaggerated about freedom and as Guille said, it is true that freedom is one of the most important rights and for which we must fight. Next time I'll cool down and say "extremists and defenders of freedom."
With those images at the end I think we are in tadinga.
It is true. Well seen and next time I will not do it, it is ugly.
Thanks for the feedback.
«ADDITION»…. my eyes T___T
It is that you did not know, when the DRAE was updated it introduced "Addiction", jokes aside, sorry for the error, it meant "Addiction".
Don't worry, mistakes like that go to anyone, I was just a bit of a troll with you. Good article although the truth is that neither Chrome nor Chromium go with me, their gluttony with RAM I do not like at all, so I stay with links and Firefox 😀
I uninstalled Chromium because webRTC cannot be disabled and that is against privacy because it delivers the IP even if a VPN is used, and identifies the browser with a hardware ID, and that cannot be fixed in Chrome.
You can see the privacy test in the link:
http://www.browserleaks.com/webrtc
Thanks, I didn't know that.
Thanks from me too, I didn't know that either. Investigating I found WebRTC block, which blocks WebRTC, you may include it in subsequent posts in the series.
excuse me ... is this site about linux or are there pure drug dealers and rapists here? how parainoic
Well I'm a Mozilla lover and I'm doing very well it's very fast and I don't think I'm going to give it up for a long time. However, I also love chromium (Not chrome) and I use both in Firefox and Chromium ublock ...
Another great browser is Midori, it is quite light and fast - I recommend it
Well, I don't bother anymore and excellent post
Good evening from Bogotá [Colombia]
Midori tested it from elementaryOS, my first linux a few years ago, it's fine but it didn't convince me.
They are the same extensions that I used 1 year ago, with the exception of "Blur" that I did not know. Instead I use PrivacyBadger which is developed by the same organization that has HTTPSeverywhere.
I have several other extensions, Checker plus for Gmail & Calendar are 2 very practical for me. Your Quality for Youtube tmb helps me a lot.
Instead I use Tampermonkey and Youtube Center, thanks for the extensions, since I will include them in the next post, the next one is about utilities and it will be much stronger and more complete than this one.
Thanks for comment.
What I don't like about FIrefox (Linux Mint) are the default fonts. The websites that I make with "generic" fonts look horrible. Chrome takes them much prettier. This can be corrected by putting closed fonts, but ...
Chromium I tried it and by default it runs slower than Firefox, I imagine that Firefox plugged with similar extensions will run faster.
regards
Very good guide, it is appreciated. Personally, I use Firefox, but you never know.
Well, you have convinced me, I haven't used chromium for a long time, only chrome, so thanks to you I'm going to try again heh
Well, try it is your option, but it is like a Chrome light and free.
Is this article from 2007?
No, m8 this hartyculos is dee loz agnos nyvent.
Right now I'm using Firefox Developer Edition, because I got curious about multithreaded. And it really improves navigation a lot, although it may start to use a little more RAM (chrome style).
http://i.imgur.com/fRLlPM1.png
I don't know what other things you were referring to at the beginning of the post, but at least in terms of performance (or "responsiveness") it will be about to improve in future versions.
Greetings.
Thanks for the info, I have installed it and it is very cool, I am using it as a 3iary browser.
Great Post. I use Chrome and your suggestions will be very helpful.
Is there a way to download YouTube videos, because where I work there is no internet and I would like to bring the kids some documentaries for the classes. Firefox is not working for me and I was used to using downloaderhelper.
PS: I use huayra.
https://blog.desdelinux.net/tag/youtube
Well you can use http://fr.savefrom.net/ to download videos.
If you want, you can use youtube-dl:
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Download videos from youtube and a hundred more.
I really like Firefox and I've been using it for a long time now. But I admit that it has things that drive me crazy, such as, for example, how heavy it gets when scrolling on sites that have many images, gifs, etc, that are dynamic ... happens a lot in http://www.huffingtonpost.es/, for example, after a while open I want to go back with the scroll and I despair. These are details that greatly spoil the user experience.
Chrome doesn't quite convince me because of how much he likes to know people's lives. Currently I only use it for Google products (mail, calendar ...).
And Chromium, well that's okay, it works just as well as its proprietary cousin and I have no complaints. I ask myself many times whether to change or not, and the truth is that at this moment, with what the little problem this scroll is doing to me, I consider it more than ever. I'll try version 39 first, let's see how it goes, but I'm really thinking about it.
However, in small computers and with slow hard drives there is no color, Firefox wins by a landslide, that is, with some tweaking so that it does not eat up the read-write capacity of the disk with the cache. For example, on my laptop, with Chromium or Chrome the computer crashes just by opening Gmail and another tab.
Greetings.
Sa
Well, as Dylan told me, you can use the Firefox Developper Edition, it's fine but I don't know if it will be lighter when scrolling.
It is not a matter of lightness in itself, in my experience, any page at the time of opening it goes well and scrolling is normal. The problem comes when the page has many images and, even so, not even with all. Did i mention http://www.huffingtonpost.es/ Because it is the best example, at first fine, like any other, but after being open for a while scrolling becomes very heavy, especially if I leave the tab without focus for a while, when I put it back in the foreground it becomes insufferable; It also happens to him on YouTube, for example. In Chromium I have never noticed this, nor in Chrome.
I do not move from Firefox (I have several extensions that either do not exist for Chrome or whose equivalent has more limited functionalities, to that add that I have it more personalized than a Harley and I am not in the mood to start from scratch) and for things "Chrome dependent" (like this site or certain YouTube features) I have Vivaldi.
Anyway, I will leave my "two cents" on the extensions you mention (with Chromium the only complaint I have is with its minimalist interface but it should be easily fixed if it is configured correctly):
* I like the concept of The Great Suspender, at first I thought it was only the option "Do not load tabs until they are selected" brought to Chrome but I see that it does much more. You will probably end up looking for some equivalent Firefox extension.
* As far as I am concerned OneTab is still very green. A proof of this is that when you save a tab, it does not keep its history (that is, the pages that were seen before or after in the tab), only the current page. As well there are many complaints of people who lost their tabs after the browser crashed (at least in the Firefox version).
* I had to switch to ublock because Adblock Edge It was discontinued a few weeks ago (well, that and why I wanted to know how much difference there was) and it really shows that it lowers RAM consumption. Even so, there are some details of its interface that need to be polished (such as being able to easily deactivate individual filters or having more options when hiding elements of a page, such as in the Element Hiding Helper) but who knows, maybe one of the Edge developers will contribute those things that ublock lacks to make it as complete as the first.
* A question about Blur and PrivacyBadger, do any of these block the same trackers as Ghostery (if not more) and allow to choose which ones I want to block and which ones not? Because if so I change without thinking twice.
And for the next time you make a "tadinga meme" I suggest that the text does not cover the original image (in this case, Chuck's face) but you want to look like a noob.
Thanks for leaving your opinions and criticisms, they will help me next time, on Blur for what I know, it doesn't let you block and what not, and on OneTab, it's true, I also suffered that problem but I saw it as something trivial and the image is stupid that I did, now I see it and it even makes me ashamed of myself.