This is just some thoughts about those two kings...
Since a longtime chrome have been somehow more reliable and faster than firefox... most of the ideas that where developed in chrome came from firefox i personally use both...
I am posting here just to share some feelings about firefox 62, i am testing it since a little time, and i have to admit i am impressed with the optimization and how fast this version react (i think it's the fastest one i have tested) as fast as i almost forget about xul/xpi lol... i think firefox is coming back lol
Now about chrome i think this is just a giant when you have the money and resources you can do amazing things but may be google will start loosing it a little bit because of the privacy policy i am really glad that UC exist. on the other hand the service is soo good that we sometime through away privacy lol for example seriously is there some one that are avoiding google-search at 100% its almost impossible the service is way too good
What do you think ?
Also talking about kings.. i tested lastly opera and was amazed too with the work they did on chromium unfortunately its closed source :( and they are forcing search engine settings :(
Just in case some one is interested here is my patch to latest firefox to make it respect privacy
intika-config-prefs.js (file to be copied to firefox_install_dir/default/pref) ... ungoogled-firefox hahahaha
pref("datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled", false);
pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false);
pref("toolkit.telemetry.rejected", true);
pref("toolkit.telemetry.enabled", false);
pref("toolkit.telemetry.unified", false);
pref("devtools.telemetry.supported_performance_marks", "");
pref("devtools.telemetry.tools.opened.version", "");
pref("toolkit.telemetry.cachedClientID", "");
pref("toolkit.telemetry.infoURL", "");
pref("toolkit.telemetry.previousBuildID", "");
pref("toolkit.telemetry.server", "");
pref("toolkit.telemetry.server_owner", "");
pref("toolkit.telemetry.infoURL", "");
pref("toolkit.telemetry.prompted", 2);
pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.telemetry_modules_ping", 0);
pref("experiments.enabled", false);
pref("extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled", false);
pref("network.http.speculative-parallel-limit", 0);
pref("network.predictor.enabled", false);
pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
pref("browser.newtabpage.directory.source", "0.0.0.0");
pref("browser.newtabpage.directory.ping", "0.0.0.0");
pref("browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl", "0.0.0.0");
pref("privacy.trackingprotection.enabled", true);
pref("beacon.enabled", false);
pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", false);
pref("browser.send_pings", false);
pref("dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled", false);
pref("geo.enabled", false);
pref("layout.css.visited_links_enabled", false);
pref("network.http.referer.trimmingPolicy", 2);
pref("browser.pocket.enabled", false);
pref("browser.search.update", false);
pref("device.sensors.enabled", false);
pref("dom.battery.enabled", false);
pref("dom.gamepad.enabled", false);
pref("dom.vibrator.enabled", false);
pref("loop.enabled", false);
pref("media.eme.enabled", false);
pref("media.gmp-eme-adobe.enabled", false);
pref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.enabled", false);
pref("media.gmp-provider.enabled", false);
pref("media.video_stats.enabled", false);
pref("webgl.disabled", true);
pref("clipboard.autocopy", false);
pref("sync.enabled", false);
pref("browser.casting.enabled", false);
pref("dom.permissions.enabled", false);
pref("browser.newtabpage.enhanced", false);
pref("dom.popup_maximum", 5);
pref("browser.urlbar.trimURLs", false);
pref("dom.enable_performance", false);
pref("javascript.options.asmjs", false);
pref("media.navigator.enabled", false);
pref("media.peerconnection.enabled", false);
pref("social.remote-install.enabled", false);
pref("browser.fixup.alternate.enabled", false);
pref("gfx.font_rendering.opentype_svg.enabled", false);
pref("gfx.font_rendering.opentype_svg.enabled", false);
pref("browser.newtabpage.directory.ping", "0.0.0.0");
pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled", false);
pref("browser.safebrowsing.enabled", false);
pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled", false);
pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.enabled", false);
pref("browser.safebrowsing.allowOverride", false);
pref("browser.safebrowsing.blockedURIs.enabled", false);
pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_dangerous", false);
pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_dangerous_host", false);
pref("breakpad.reportURL", "");
pref("app.vendorURL", "");
pref("social.directories", "");
pref("captivedetect.canonicalURL", "");
pref("identity.fxaccounts.auth.uri", "");
pref("devtools.gcli.imgurUploadURL", "");
pref("app.update.url", "");
pref("extensions.blocklist.itemURL", "");
pref("extensions.blocklist.url", "");
pref("devtools.gcli.jquerySrc", "");
pref("devtools.gcli.lodashSrc", "");
pref("devtools.gcli.underscoreSrc", "");
pref("devtools.devices.url", "");
pref("plugins.crash.supportUrl", "");
pref("app.releaseNotesURL", "");
pref("mailnews.mx_service_url", "");
pref("browser.search.geoip.url", "");
pref("social.whitelist", "");
pref("extensions.update.background.url", "");
pref("app.update.url", "");
pref("app.update.url.manual", "");
pref("app.update.url.details", "");
pref("devtools.devedition.promo.url", "");
pref("mailnews.messageid_browser.url", "");
pref("media.gmp-manager.url", "");
pref("security.ssl.errorReporting.url", "");
pref("toolkit.crashreporter.infoURL", "");
pref("webextensions.storage.sync.serverURL", "");
pref("sync.jpake.serverURL", "");
pref("sync.serverURL", "");
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Just in case some one is interested here is my patch to latest firefox to make it respect privacy
intika-config-prefs.js(file to be copied tofirefox_install_dir/default/pref) ... ungoogled-firefox hahahaha