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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Firefox has a super simple way to import everything from your Chrome install. And from what I can tell it has every feature plus more. Was very easy for me to switch. I was actually inspired to try it as my daily driver since Chrome hogs an uncomfortable amount of RAM on my laptop

[–] LetMeEatCake 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There was one extension I used in Chrome that I haven't found a Firefox replacement for, but I stopped trying to look a while ago and just live without it.

Was a specific kind of cookie manager: you could whitelist a set of websites to keep their cookies. Everything else would be deleted when you told the extension to do so.

Too many websites need cookies that stick around indefinitely. But I also don't want to delete everything everytime I close Firefox, because I may want to keep a website around for a few days without wanting to bother adding it to a whitelist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can do that in the browser settings in bOTH FF and chrome

[–] LetMeEatCake 1 points 1 year ago

I want something more complex than a basic whitelist and blacklist. I already use that in Firefox and it helps somewhat but not wholly. I want to manage specifically when it happens and in accordance to said lists. I haven't found anything that handles that in the settings.

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