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Good thing I already stopped using chrome since about a year ag

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I already know that nobody will mention Vivaldi, or if they do, they will be drowned out by a chorus of voices shouting “Firefox”, but if you like the chromium ecosystem or just don’t like waiting for web pages to function, it’s a great alternative with a built-in adblocker that doesn’t depend on uBlock Origin.

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Vivaldi is great. Sadly any mention of it gets downvoted by Firefox fanboys who don’t understand we are on the same team.

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We’ve just been told yesterday that to reduce our attack surface, only Edge will be allowed on our workstations. Reasoning is that it’s difficult to make sure everyone is properly updates their browser, and since Edge is handled by windows updates, it’s easier to monitor proper updates.

While I understand that reasoning, the tradeoff between pretty small risk reduction associated with unlikely attack surface from different browsers, and the massive drop in employee satisfaction, is simply not worth it.

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I use a mix of edge and chrome at work and Firefox and chrome at home. In boring work use (not signed into the browser, no extensions, no real customization), edge and chrome feel pretty similar to me. I will happily admit that I am using both basically out of the box and that if you’re invested in the configuration of one it might be annoying to switch.

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Okay. I have purged Google chrome from my devices long ago.

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I can’t. Firefox on Android doesn’t handle my personal certificate so it’s a hassle to access gov sites

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That’s to add an “authority”. Done that. But firefox doesn’t find a personal (id) cert signed by that CA (fnmt.es)

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In that case you can try cromite for Android. It’s a decent private and ad blocking browser based on chromium.

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