When comparing Chromium vs Firefox Developer Edition, the Slant community recommends Firefox Developer Edition for most people. In the question“What are the best browsers for web development?” Firefox Developer Edition is ranked 1st while Chromium is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Firefox Developer Edition is:
Is the only browser I know with features specifically oriented to aid web development out of the box.
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
Chrome and Chromium are available on almost every device nowadays
Pro Latest Blink
This is the browser Blink is made for and developed alongside.
Pro Sandboxing
Every tab and plugin runs in its own subprocess so they will never affect the whole browser ,however that consumes more memory than other browsers
Pro Completely Open Source
Both Chromium and and its rendering engine Blink are licensed under the BSD-license which includes no copyleft unlike the GNU or Mozilla Licenses.
Pro Access to Chrome's extensions
Chromium can access the Chrome Web Store and all the extensions hosted there can be installed and used on Chromium.
Pro Supports all of Google Chrome features
As Chrome is based on Chromium they overlap in supported features. Chromium syncs between devices, automatically updates, has great built-in developer tools, installs extensions without a restart, includes a combined text bar for entering URLs and searching and has excellent HTML5 compatibility just like Chrome.
Pro Bare
It does not have any extensions preinstalled and focuses to be a web browser.
Pro BSD license
You can do almost anything with the code.
Pro Gets constant updates
While the Chromium-based browser haev to adapt their code to the update before release, original Chromuim doesn't need it so it gets updated more constantly and frequently.
Pro Chromium sets the standard for Web Browsing
Since Google Chrome is the most used web browser, and that browser along with many others is based on Chromium, Chromium sets the standards for the internet and for security, and Firefox will always be years behind.
Pro Backed by Google
Chromium was first released as a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project by Google in september 2008. The idea was to encourage developers to review the underlying code and to contribute in making Chrome cross platform and port it to Mac and Linux as well.
Nowadays Chromium is a large project with a huge community that's standing behind it but still Google continues to take an extremely active role in Chromium development. This ensures the longevity and constant development and improvement of the browser.
Pro Does not come with Google
Unlike Chrome it does come wihout any Google account requirement.
Pro Designed specifically for web development
Is the only browser I know with features specifically oriented to aid web development out of the box.
Pro Can be launched alongside Firefox (release version)
Some might find that useless, but that's very practical to dedicate a browser to development.
Pro Standard complaint
AFAIK, Firefox is the most HTML/CSS/JS standard complaint of all the browsers out there.
Pro Feature rich
This browser is the most feature richt browser for web development out of the box.
You can restrict the bandwidth in "Responsive Design Mode" to see how the page performs under unoptimal conditions.
It has predefined profiles for e.g. Ipad, Galaxy S9 and lots more.
Pro Ready for work right out-of-the-box
Pro Fast
It's Firefox. It's fast.
Pro Beta channel
As this branch of firefox uses a beta channel of firefox releases, you will see if future versions will contain breaking changes and give you time to react.
Cons
Con Lacks privacy options
Con High RAM usage
Due the sandboxing, Chromium also eats a lot of RAM , which can be a problem for machines with smaller RAM.
Con No official builds
There are no official builds available so you have to rely on a third party distributor
Con Not possible to disable WebRTC
Con Fat, slow, and another piece of google spyware
Con Lacks support for certain common media formats
As Chromium avoids bundling any proprietary software, media that requires proprietary codecs or formats such as AAC, H.264, MP3 and Flash will not play by default on Chromium.
Con Can be dangerous / only available as Source
There are plenty of unofficial Chromium distributors and every one of them can disable specific features (like sandboxing) for their build, so you will never know what you get.
Con Under BSD License
Con Heavy
Since it has a lot of tools to support debugging and web development, it is considerably heavier than the standard version of Firefox, definitely I don't recommend it for standard web browsing.
Con May be unstable
Since it is a release channel between beta and Nightly, it may be unstable.
Con Lack of support for source maps in blobs
Still a bit buggy support for CSS source maps coming from blobs. The team is working on it though, and the fixes will eventually land in the production code.
Con Not based on Chromium
If you don't want to make your website support non-Chromium browsers, this can be a problem.
Con This project is not yet available for Android
The developer edition is not available for mobile devices, though the beta and nightly channels are available, and can be used for testing future versions of Firefox.