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Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

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Post by 0-_-0 »

abecedarius wrote: post #73
shaicoleman wrote: post #71

* Switched a couple of years ago from Firefox because of better dev tools. * GPU acceleration doesn't work properly with Firefox/Linux (Dell G5 SE, Ryzen 4800H). Some sites I use daily, such as Google Maps, are painfully slow/laggy on Firefox. * There's something about the Firefox's scrolling behaviour that I find really annoying. * It works well across all platforms (Firefox on Android wasn't great last time I check…

Why do you see Brave as less trustworthy? I don't think the news has reached me.

I believe Brave removes a lot of the telemetry and tracking code from Chromium, so I consider it more trustworthy.

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

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Post by Daho0n »

xvector wrote: post #51
Daho0n wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Brave have a worse track record than chrome. Chromium would be a better pick if security track record is your measuring stick.

Doesn't Brave use a Chromium backend?

It does. Brave adds it's own code on top. Like injecting affiliate id's on some links. The affiliate programs (Binance, Coinbase, Ledger, Trezor) allow Brave to view a detailed overview of purchases made.

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

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Post by Daho0n »

xvector wrote: post #89
Daho0n wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brave have been caught with their fingers in the cookie jar multiple times. I don't know if it's more secure than Firefox but it's definitely less private.

Source?

It's no secret that Brave started injecting affiliate id's on some links some time back. These affiliate programs (Binance, Coinbase, Ledger, Trezor) allow Brave to view a detailed overview of purchases made by everyone who signed up to these services using Brave.

ETA: Don't take my word for it:

https://gizmodo.com/brave-blows-up-its-whole-reason-for-exis...

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caugh...

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

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Post by majewsky »

rrdharan wrote: post #5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

This is not a loaded question. A loaded question would be something like "For those who use Chrome, do you like having no privacy?" The question as posed contains no malicious presumptions and thus is not loaded.

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

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Post by worg »

xvector wrote: post #20
scottmcdot wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know which extensions are not available on Firefox? I'm considering moving to Firefox and feel like after I move there'll be that one Chrome extension that isn't on Firefox.

Firefox + Multi-Account Containers [1] + Container Proxy [2] + Cookie Auto-Delete [3] have completely changed the way I use the web. I can now have multiple Discord accounts open, multiple e-mail accounts, etc. Cookie Auto-Delete removes all persistent traces of my browsing (Cache, IndexedDB, LocalStorage, Plugin Data, Service Workers, Cookies) unless I have whitelisted a site. And you can whitelist sites on a per-co…

I'd add temporary containers to that list (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...) So you get an automatically generated container for each domain (even navigating from an existing one) and whitelisting per wildcard/container

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

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Post by tmottabr »

_odey wrote: post #98
stuartd wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Containers are 1000 times better than profiles!

I'm afraid you're both wrong, containers are an add-on, profiles are a core functionality. That person does not want something new, they just want to use their existing workflow, which is possible, but inconvenient due to bad UX and ugly UI. These are their words, not mine. As a user of both containers and profiles in Firefox I have to agree with them. The UX needs to improve and the UI needs to be prettyfied.

container is a core functionality in Firefox, but it is mostly hidden away.

the add-ons are basically just the interfaces for you to access that core functionality.

If you don't want to trust the add-on developer just use the official one made by Mozila. It is the one i use.

https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

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Post by bobbydreamer »

Either opera or Chrome. Edge has become slower recently. Opera has been the memory efficient one. When FLV video downloader extension went down, there's no point in using Chrome. Whenever I start chrome, sound comes from CPU. Right now using Chrome when ever I use GCP. They will have to make it more efficient. It almost takes 1100MB memory in windows...

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

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Post by chenxiaolong »

I use a Chrome just for watching Twitch streams. Despite Twitch only officially supporting 1080p60fps as the max, streamers are able to feed 1080p90fps or 1080p120fps streams to Twitch's RTMP servers. With my 60Hz monitor, Firefox is an absolute judder-fest when playing these streams, both on my desktop (Windows + Nvidia 2080TI w/HW H.264 decode) and my laptop (Fedora + Intel 630 w/VAAPI HW H.264 decode). Chromium-based browsers seem to handle these streams very well with no noticeable judder.

EDIT: I used to use Webex with Chrome also, but it mostly works fine now on Firefox, even for screen sharing. The only bug I've encountered is that the mute button occasionally doesn't work (audio not muted, but button says "unmute" and has no effect) and I have to rejoin the meeting. When the button works, it stays working for the duration of the meeting.

Re: Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?

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Post by srfwx »

trog wrote: post #85
shaicoleman wrote: post #71

* Switched a couple of years ago from Firefox because of better dev tools. * GPU acceleration doesn't work properly with Firefox/Linux (Dell G5 SE, Ryzen 4800H). Some sites I use daily, such as Google Maps, are painfully slow/laggy on Firefox. * There's something about the Firefox's scrolling behaviour that I find really annoying. * It works well across all platforms (Firefox on Android wasn't great last time I check…

> * It works well across all platforms (Firefox on Android wasn't great last time I checked). I've made Firefox my default browser on Android a couple of months ago and I'd say it's basically completely usable at this point. I am running it with NoScript on, which is probably more of an exercise in masochism than anything else - more or less every site loads broken, of course, without JS these days, and a recent chan…

I wanted to switch. The (albeit limited amount of) extensions on Firefox for Android made it even more appealing. However it´s so unbearable slow that I quickly moved back to Chrome.
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