Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy
After having read this article, I read a bit more about third-party cookie blocking, and I was reminded that cookies are not the only way to track internet users: localStorage, and cache tracking with HTTP ETag, also enable tracking.<p>This led me to Safari which partitions cookies, cache and HTML 5 storage for all third-party domains. As far as I know, Firefox (and Chrome of course) don’t to that.<p>It’s easy to check with the browser developer tools open:<p>- Empty your cache.<p>- Visit a website that uses a given font hosted on fonts.google.com.<p>- You should see the HTTP request for the font in the network tab.<p>- Then visit another website that uses the same font on fonts.google.com.<p>- In Safari, you should see another HTTP request, because the cache is not shared.<p>- In Chrome and Firefox, you’ll see the font is retrieved from the cache.<p>Kudos to Apple for their work on the privacy features of Safari! I’d be happy to see Firefox put the same emphasis on this :-)