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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 ingvul »

Mainly because it's look and feel. I'm not a "power user". Chrome just looks lightweight and feels fast. The only browser that is similar in these aspects is Safari.

Firefox looks bad. For example:

- the spacing between the home button and the search bar

- why there's a line at the top of the current tab? The way Chrome distinguishes the current tab looks "better""

- the "back", "forward" and "refresh" buttons look big

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

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Post by varispeed »

pornel wrote: post #52

Firefox doesn't save credit card numbers. The feature was there, then was removed, readded, may be US-only now? I don't know WTF they're doing, but for shopping/donations I need to launch a non-Firefox browser.

This was annoying to me as well, but I simply just memorised all my cards. I had to type in so many times it kind of happened. Now I can type in my number faster than if I had to reach for mouse and select a card from a drop down.

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

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Post by neolog »

xvector wrote: post #23
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.

I want speed, security, privacy. I'm not aware of any public comparisons between browsers using privacy and adblock extensions.

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

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Post by varispeed »

pornel wrote: post #50
aloer wrote: post #30

Chrome tab bar reduces width and overflows, Firefox tab bar scrolls That’s makes chrome more power user friendly. Sadly

To me it's the opposite! I'm a tab hoarder. A tab bar like ||||||||||||||||||| is unusable, but Firefox's approach scales infinitely (and I'm on track to have inifinity+1 tabs open)

When I get to ||||||||||||||||||| situation, I just close the browser and start fresh and then type in sites I had opened if I remember any. I am left with just a few really important to me at the time and I find this less distracting.

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

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Post by marshmallow_12 »

skybrian wrote: post #21

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 think what you are saying is privacy concerns are a straw man. But just to accuse HN doesn't really help me. Can you share with us a bit about what is going on in Chrome. I would be genuinely interested to hear more about how it was made/runs etc.

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

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Post by rand846633 »

xvector wrote: post #25
rand846633 wrote: post #17

Only one reason: Chrome has hands down the best security track record.

Why not use Brave instead, then?

I’m sure it says somewhere but i could not find out what version of chrome(chromium?) brave is based on while trying to find this out for maybe 5 minutes. So, just to be sure i am not installing an browser with known vulnerability I’ll stick with chrome for now.

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

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Post by readflaggedcomm »

ingvul wrote: post #61

Mainly because it's look and feel. I'm not a "power user". Chrome just looks lightweight and feels fast. The only browser that is similar in these aspects is Safari. Firefox looks bad. For example: - the spacing between the home button and the search bar - why there's a line at the top of the current tab? The way Chrome distinguishes the current tab looks "better"" - the "back", "forward" and "refresh" buttons look b…

Right click the open space and select "Customize...", or "Customize Toolbar" from the menu, and you can change the button sizes a bit and remove those default spacers.

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

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Post by yamrzou »

Because if feels faster.

I open a lot of tabs and keep my browser open for days. After a while, Firefox becomes slow, while Chromium always feels fast. It's hard to measure, but it's real. In addition, sometimes I encounter sites that do not work or are slower in Firefox (I don't have an example in my mind right now).

Also, more than once, I see that something is not supported/slower in Firefox just because of some unresolved bugs. They get fixed after a while, but that makes Chrome always ahead and ready when you need a specific feature right away. See for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26189604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25916574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24801058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23690908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24896489

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