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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Frostwolf@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 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@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 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.

[–] RayJW@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I think this might be what you are searching for. I've used it a few times and it does everything it promises imho: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete