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I gave up on Firefox at the end of last year, and I don't miss it at all. If I hadn't already done it, though, this would've sent me over the edge. (I do not and will never run Pulse on any of my systems.) Currently using a stripped-down version of Chrome, and web browsing has never been better.

Edit: the downvoting on this site is goddamned baffling sometimes. What about my comment has you guys offended today?

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What is the stripped-down version of Chrome you use?

Is it something prepackaged or something you've crafted by stripping yourself?

Maybe Chromium? https://www.chromium.org/Home

It's prepackaged but I kind of lost track how it's different. It used to be that it didn't support flash but that might have changed.

It doesn't have some plugins or Google login (for bookmark/history sync).

It has Google sync the different is mostly in branding and in some codec support

Currently, Iron browser.

https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

It's gone from "broken on most sites" to "pretty much totally usable" since about October.

The linked thread implies that Chrome doesn't support ALSA either. Is that not true?

Chrome supports Alsa and Pulseaudio.

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