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The second advantage is that Firefox is open source and it's easier to feel that it won't be tracking you. Yes, Chromium is open, but Chrome isn't Chromium.

Even if Chromium is open source, development obviously goes where Google wants it. The (IMHO overdone) minimalism in browser chrome (no pun intended) and complete blurring of local history and online Google searches are nice examples. You can't really undo that without forking it.



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