Today, Google Chrome officially disabled uBlock Origin extension. We can no longer enable it through any flags. I’ve been waiting for this moment to come for a while, and so it happened.
Today I finally uninstalled Google Chrome from my Windows computer.
Firefox is still my default browser, but I just installed Brave, which has the Chromium engine, because I have a feeling that it’s more performant than Firefox. However, I also have a feeling that Chrome itself is faster than Brave. Maybe Google has some code removed from Chromium and added only in Chrome, to intentionally make Chrome faster. Conspiracy theory, but who knows.
I used the portable version of Brave which felt strangely slow. I supposed that’s because I installed it on my D: drive, which is not SSD. Brave could not open magnet links, and so far, this new installation also cannot.
On my Android phone, I already have both Firefox and Brave. My issue with Brave is that it doesn’t support extensions, and SponsorBlock is become something I can’t live without.
Another issue is the disk space used by Chrome and Brave. My observations showed me that they top at somewhat 2.7 GB, which seems a lot. Coincidence or not, I also observed this for Firefox. My C: hard drive is running short these days, and until I buy myself a new computer, that’s all I have.
At last, I joined the bandwagon of the ex-Chrome users.