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

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

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Post by skybrian »

This subject has gotten extremely political and I simply don’t trust most of what’s posted on Hacker News. Everything looks like motivated reasoning to me. Only a small minority really understand the issues and they use motivated reasoning too.

It’s much like deciding which nutritional studies to trust when most people aren’t scientists and are just reposting memes.

And although I don’t know what’s going on anymore, I have residual trust in the Chrome team since I used to work for Google.

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

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Post by rosmax_1337 »

I won't make a blog-post detailing things, since you could just as well google your way into those details. Instead I'll note down:

- Best devtools, particularity regarding how the tools feel to browse around in.

- Feels slightly better to browse with. Only small differences, like how scroll is just a bit "smooth".

- Looks better ui-wise. (arguably a personal take, but also arguably not)

- (as others will note) Because it's essentially standard at this point, and I work with webdev.

I use chromium though, at least it makes things less google-y. And I thoroughly dislike the Alphabet-monopoly situation and all the bad things it brings. I really wish browsers were far less centralized than they are right now, and that some kind of web-standards consortium worked better than it does. But I don't pretend to be able to fix things like that right now. Besides, at this point, the whole Alphabet-monopoly situation is arguably a political issue rather than a technical one. (Political issues require political solutions)

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

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Post by xvector »

neolog wrote: post #18

I heard Chrome is faster. It might not be, given that I'm running a bunch of privacy extensions. But I don't really know how to benchmark this.

If privacy + security is your goal, you ought to change from Chrome to Brave. Brave is Chromium-based but actually protects your privacy.

If privacy above all is your goal, then Firefox is your best bet.

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

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Post by ddingus »

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 need to try this. Are those features available on Android too?
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