Exactly this. Firefox is still the most customizable, personalized browser, with the best extensions for privacy and isolation that are supported by the browser's architecture.
Site containment, with tab isolation - as developed for FaceBook in FireFox - is a great example. The isolation of elements on pages of third parties, such as login and comment buttons, to API hooks are all disabled, and permitted pages and elements are sandboxed from other tabs, without access to history, cookies, location, etc.
This spawned an ecosystem of tab-isolators for Twitter, Google, Amazon, YouTube and others, based on the same source.
This is one of nearly a dozen examples where FireFox has no real comparison. The Mozilla Foundation isn't perfect, but it is not fully warped by the economics of major corporations like Google, Microsoft and Apple, towards the compromise or capture of the user's electronic identity and behavior.
Firefox here (Score:4, Interesting)
With some plugins to filter out the worst.
I'm not expecting it to catch everything and it's a challenge. But at least I can completely ignore Facebook.
More and more sites are today designed with JavaScript and that's just to punch holes in the privacy filtering - not to make pages/sites more useful.
Re:Firefox here (Score:5, Interesting)
Exactly this.
Firefox is still the most customizable, personalized browser, with the best extensions for privacy and isolation that are supported by the browser's architecture.
Site containment, with tab isolation - as developed for FaceBook in FireFox - is a great example. The isolation of elements on pages of third parties, such as login and comment buttons, to API hooks are all disabled, and permitted pages and elements are sandboxed from other tabs, without access to history, cookies, location, etc.
This spawned an ecosystem of tab-isolators for Twitter, Google, Amazon, YouTube and others, based on the same source.
This is one of nearly a dozen examples where FireFox has no real comparison. The Mozilla Foundation isn't perfect, but it is not fully warped by the economics of major corporations like Google, Microsoft and Apple, towards the compromise or capture of the user's electronic identity and behavior.