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  • PeachMan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Even better, ditch chromium altogether. There are many performance and privacy focused Firefox forks.

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      1 year ago

      The developer of Thorium has a fork of Firefox called Mercury. Hmmm… Some obviously didn’t check out the website.