My Computer Engineering Teacher just said in class that Mozzila

Yes. chrome is the better browser generally but firefox has special code that makes it less intrusive on your data.

in the sense that your privacy isn't being violated as badly, yeah. but chrome is supposedly less exploitable

safe from botnet yes

Google collects data on your browsing to use for their products. Mozilla collects your data to sell to keep their business afloat. Pick which one suits you better, either way your data is being used.

>>59542789
>Mozilla collects your data
you can opt out unlike chrome

>>59542727
Lol no.
The best security team in the world is with Chrome.

>>59542748
Chrome is shit. Firefox based browsers are much better.

>>59542940
kek, nice try jewgle webcare team

>>59542789
>Mozilla collects your data to sell to keep their business afloat.
False. Mozilla doesn't collect any data except crash reports by default. There's an *optional* feature that is not enabled by default that helps mozilla determine whether certain functionality is useful or not and helps them steer development. There's also the health reporter that keeps a log of the general performance of firefox which can also *optionally* send this data back to mozilla so they can help find and fix performance and stability problems.

The only other thing firefox sends involves the safe browsing thing where it sends partial hashes of urls to google's service and then blocks pages if the part of the hash matches up with one of a known bad website. That is enabled by default in chromium and firefox, microsoft has their own version of it as well. It's possible to disable that with firefox right in the options.

There was an experiment where mozilla basically looked at the most popular websites in various regions and placed these websites on the new tab page so people could easily access them on first run. I don't think they collected anything for that though and that has since ended.

File: go-jump-symbolic.symbolic.png (539B, 48x48px) Image search: [Google]

539B, 48x48px

Posting from netsurf

>My teacher said something about specific products
There's like a 98% chance they're wrong or are just spouting personal opinion.

>>59542727
Posting from Chrome.
I can browse the web on it.

I'm using it because it's the first browser I thought to download.

Maybe I could have thought of Firefox first instead, but I didn't, and why that is doesn't interest me.

So, in summary, quick feature overview for Chrome:
>It's a web browser.
>Sometimes it's the first one you think of.
>It works.
Why the fuck do you need anything better than that?

>>59542727
He's a feminist

>>59542727
why didn't he tell you the reason why is it actually safer?

>>59543063
>Posting From Chrome.
D R O P P E D
R
O
P
P
E
D

Chrome is for homies with extra chromies

I use firefox just because its a habit at this point. Chrome's performance is relatively much much better but it's not like I have a toaster that needs a performance booster desperately.

I wish mozilla would spy on me
And find out what kind of porn i like and satisfy me just how i like it without me telling them, and feds too, but they never come to my country doesn't matter how much i scream here that i have pizza >.<

>>59543401
>Why the fuck do you need anything better than that?

No, definitely not. Chrome has a faster response to security issues (although Firefox is not incredibly slow), and the sandbox is pretty tough - Firefox doesn't even have one.

There's a project ongoing to replace the Tor Browser Bundle - probably the single browser build most targeted by expensive 0days - with something Chromium-based.

File: KKSbGih.png (131KB, 1045x580px) Image search: [Google]

131KB, 1045x580px

>>59542727
yes

>>59543866
>Asks you to login
The horror!

>>59542727
They don't even test Firefox at pwn2own because it's "too easy"

>>59542727
Opera is better than both

>>59544365
https://www.techworld.com.au/article/616306/mozilla-beats-rivals-patches-firefox-pwn2own-bug/

File: 8ccaeda131ea99fe66cfdd57ce41950d.jpg (43KB, 736x588px) Image search: [Google]

43KB, 736x588px

>botnet shillfags don't browse the web using wget and curl

>>59544214
>let me read that and not the rest of the text

Fucking neo-/g/.

File: icecat.png (177KB, 650x650px) Image search: [Google]

177KB, 650x650px

>>59543866
GNU IceCat is Firefox Mozilla's botnet removed.

>>59544530
>>59543866
1+3 Firefox periodically downloads a list of malicious websites and malicious files from Google's safe-browsing thing. When you connect to a site it checks the hashes of the site or the file against the locally held version of the list.

2 is completely incorrect. Auto-completion is done in the browser, search bar autocomplete is done through a search engine. Mozilla deliberately kept the location and search bars separate to avoid accidentally sending URLs to search engines.

4 is correct*
...but you need to actually create an account and use their services which are completely optional

5 The browser opens sockets I believe but no connections are actually made if I remember right

>>59542727
no, all are compromised.

>>59543866
You can turn autocompletion off in about:config.

That image also fails to provide credible sources to back it up.