I've been pretty hardstuck on Chromium for a while. Mostly because I believe that Chromium offers better security than what other browsers are offering. For example, Firefox has weaker isolation compared to Chromium, and has yet to ship Control Flow Integrity into any releases1]. Admittedly, GCC is far behind if they have even made progress with implementing CFI, and GCC is still significant enough to be in Firefox. I believe that this issue will be resolved soon but it by then, Chromium would have implemented more security benefits over Firefox.
I've seen people say that Firefox is more private than Chromium, not only due to Google's past, but because of it's support of Manifest V2. Chromium axed Manifest V2 due to security issues regarding permissions, as well as performance and other benefits. Ad blockers should be a human right, and while more powerful ad blockers are great, I believe it should not sacrifice the security of a browser through vulnerable manifest versions. I believe Firefox will have to remove it at some point, but it won't happen now at least.
And all the while Mozilla is destroying their baby's image, with Firefox's latest AI push being the biggest spark from that fire. All the while, Chromium does not have any AI functionality built into the browser. My research concludes that no one has cared to include any LLM, including Gemini into base Chromium. It appears as if Google one upped Mozilla in the browser game again.
All I hope to gain from people reading this is their insights through their own research and what their conclusion was. I should not represent your choices, as we all make mistakes, and no doubt I will make a mistake in this or a future post and cause people to follow my footsteps. I do not want that. Please do your own research.
Thank you!
[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510629
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