switching from FF to Chrome browser. any caveats?

any security issues?
I am NOT logged in to google.
I am using Tab Shelf vertical tabs and uBlock Origin Lite extensions (and a couple others).
So far all my (140+) tabs work.
GRC is happy.

Just checking! Thanks!
win 11 25H2 current. stats are correct.

I can't answer that question as I can't imagine using 140 tabs.

Use Brave... is much better than Chrome. Less intrusive telemetry... and... doesn't do certain practices I won't mention because this site is patronized by our adorable ads lol.
If you absolutely need to switch to a chromium based browser, use Brave, or Vivaldi.

DarkShadowMD said:

Use Brave... is much better than Chrome. Less intrusive telemetry... and... doesn't do certain practices I won't mention because this site is patronized by our adorable ads lol.
If you absolutely need to switch to a chromium based browser, use Brave, or Vivaldi.

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no thanks.

I disabled the ai stuff for google searches:
"
chrome - google - AI stuff

chrome://flags gives you Experimental - search "ai mode" and disable the 5 and restart.

add Bye bye google ai extension.

voila."

Try Vivaldi, more customizable and still the Chrome engine

A Guy

krism said:

any security issues?
I am NOT logged in to google.
I am using Tab Shelf vertical tabs and uBlock Origin Lite extensions (and a couple others).
So far all my (140+) tabs work.
GRC is happy.

Just checking! Thanks!
win 11 25H2 current. stats are correct.

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You'd be a good candidate for OneTab.

Chrome has oodles of caveats. For one, it doesn't hold a candle against Firefox' privacy tweaks. Take Codeberg Narsil, for example. Just because GRC is happy, doesn't mean that I am happy. lol

That said, I run multiple instances of Firefox portable instead of relying solely on Firefox profiles and the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension. This is only possible to achieve with the portable edition of Firefox. Running multiple instances of the same browser adds certain benefits like the ability to close-modify-restart any instance individually such a way that doing so doesn't affect all the other instances or the browser windows thereof.

That said, by running each different instance in a different sandbox through Sandboxie-Plus it also is possible to apply a different set of file/resource access restrictions on each instance (through each sandbox' own settings).

Further, with Firefox portable you can also make multiple copies of the same FirefoxPortable folder, and then modify each copy in a different way. Each different copy can be run as a separate instance, but you can still also run multiple instances of the same copy if that's all you need. And no, none of this will prevent you from simultaneously running Chrome. You can even run Chrome in its own separate sandbox through Sandboxie-Plus whenever you want. What you can NOT do is run multiple instances of Chrome (sandboxed or not, doesn't make a difference to this). To be able to run multiple instances of the same browser, you'll need to replace Firefox with Firefox portable and apply a special setting in Firefox portable, and that only exists in Firefox portable. If you want me to explain how this works, just ask.

Finally, IMO you should consider what drove you to abandon Firefox anyway in the first place. Some problems can't be fixed. But a lot of them still can be.