Chromium vs Firefox
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Chromium and Firefox are Open Source internet browsers. Firefox has been downloaded more times than any other piece of Open Source software. Chromium/Chrome's popularity is growing more quickly than any other major internet browser.
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[edit] Performance
- Chromium consumes more memory than Firefox, but starts up faster.
- Firefox 4.0's new JavaScript-Engine performs slower on certain benchmarks, although far better on others.
[edit] Features
- Firefox was the first highly extendable browser in the web. Chromium is the second.
- Both manage bookmarks
- Firefox has a user profile that's easy to backup
- Mozilla Firefox Sync helps with that by encrypting and uploading it to their server cloud
- Chromium gets 100% of the Acid3-test
- Firefox gets a 97%
- Chromium has a useful dashboard startpage
- Firefox's startup page can be customized to mimic the features of Chrome's using extensions
- Firefox generally offloads features to extensions, rather than builds them into the browser.
[edit] Extension coverage
- There's Adblock and Flashblock for both
- Ghostery yet lacks some blockage on Chromium
- Chromium has a Downloadbar and limited support for Greasemonkey Userscripts by default.
- The Firefox extension API is far more powerful than Chromium's; every part of the browser can be customized.
[edit] Plug-ins
- Chromium and Firefox on a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu share the same flash plug-in
[edit] Data privacy with default settings
- Firefox doesn't send private or usage data to their company
- But its extensions may
- Both have set Google as their default search engine
- Both support private sessions where there is no history saved
[edit] Data privacy after user configuration
- Both, Firefox' and Chromium's extensions may send private/usage data to somewhere
- You can change the default search engines of both
- Users can easily disable features of Chromium that remotely use Google-services
- You can disable Chromium's extensions for private sessions.
[edit] Bugs
- Chromium has problems at Deviantart.com
[edit] Also see
- WikiVS Chrome vs Firefox
