Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

blog.runspired.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 230 posts

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

#41

Post by bluejekyll »

Razengan wrote: post #33
dsugarman wrote: post #9

I was waiting for someone to come out and say it. 6 months ago, I couldn't imagine using another browser regularly but chrome has become so slow for me, I can't stand it. I switched to Firefox.

Chrome was (probably still is) the only usable browser left on Windows, but I never used it or had to use it ever since I switched to Macs a few years ago. Aside from the plugins ecosystem (which I don't need) Safari works infinitely better (loads faster, uses less resources, even with 100s of tabs, and has nice little features like the Reading List, Reading Mode, Force-Touch Peek and so on) and fits into the OS X lo…

I switched to Chrome a few years back b/c it was the only browser that gave me a good experience across platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows). At the time I liked it better than Firefox for that, but Servo looks like it could bring me back. Safari was never an option on Linux.

What I did notice after the last Safari release, was that because it's faster/smaller memory footprint, it also used less battery.

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

#43

Post by aerique »

Razengan wrote: post #33
dsugarman wrote: post #9

I was waiting for someone to come out and say it. 6 months ago, I couldn't imagine using another browser regularly but chrome has become so slow for me, I can't stand it. I switched to Firefox.

Chrome was (probably still is) the only usable browser left on Windows, but I never used it or had to use it ever since I switched to Macs a few years ago. Aside from the plugins ecosystem (which I don't need) Safari works infinitely better (loads faster, uses less resources, even with 100s of tabs, and has nice little features like the Reading List, Reading Mode, Force-Touch Peek and so on) and fits into the OS X lo…

I use Firefox on all my platforms (Linux, Windows, OSX, Android). It's fine.

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

#44

Post by update »

thenomad wrote: post #14
dsugarman wrote: post #9

I was waiting for someone to come out and say it. 6 months ago, I couldn't imagine using another browser regularly but chrome has become so slow for me, I can't stand it. I switched to Firefox.

Oddly, I have recently found Firefox so slow - particularly on YouTube where for some reason it's unusable - that I'm considering a full-fledged switch to Chrome.

I swear this conversation is as old as time --- or at least Firefox & Chrome.

person 1: "Firefox is slow now i'm moving back to Chrome"

person 2: "interesting! I find the complete opposite and am moving back to Firefox!"

:)

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

#45

Post by therealmarv »

Messing for the last several months also with mobile browsers on my Android devices. Especially because mobile scare-/malware was bothering me too much in recent times ( harmless example you could open on Android: https://shkspr.mobi/vibratescam/ ). Compared them all (Chrome, Chrome beta, Firefox, Firefox beta, Opera, Brave) and realized that Firefox+uBlock, especially since Firefox 45, is reasonable fast and good to use as daily driver on Android. It blocks all the malware and web videos work even better in Firefox than in mobile Chrome.

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

#46

Post by j_koreth »

zdkl wrote: post #29
thenomad wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oddly, I have recently found Firefox so slow - particularly on YouTube where for some reason it's unusable - that I'm considering a full-fledged switch to Chrome.

Same experience. I've switched to Vivaldi, it feels like the Firefox of old. It's chromium under the hood though

Opera 12 is the only viable choice

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

#47

Post by Etheryte »

evook wrote: post #23

Just FYI vivaldi beta 3 is stable enough for personal browsing and works well with µBlock origin (AM) + flash control.

From personal experience, Vivaldi is a lot more bug-ridden than other common browsers. It's rather new so it's understandable, but I don't really see the place to recommend it currently, especially in a discussion like this.

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

#48

Post by bdickason »

I think this article is missing the idea of the browser hype cycle (Every 4-5 years):

1. A cool new browser comes along promising a minimal featureset with a focus on speed.

2. Early adopters make the move and start asking for a few features they liked on their old browser (extensions, some customization, etc).

3. The new browser is excited by the growth opportunity and invests in said features.

4. Eventually, the new browser is now so bloated that users start complaining about it being slow and look for alternatives.

5. See #1

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

#49

Post by takno »

therealmarv wrote: post #45

Messing for the last several months also with mobile browsers on my Android devices. Especially because mobile scare-/malware was bothering me too much in recent times ( harmless example you could open on Android: https://shkspr.mobi/vibratescam/ ). Compared them all (Chrome, Chrome beta, Firefox, Firefox beta, Opera, Brave) and realized that Firefox+uBlock, especially since Firefox 45, is reasonable fast and good to…

I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong. FF45 on a fast Android phone for me is almost unbearably laggy both on loading and scrolling pages. I mean to the point where I can't really understand how anybody is using it. I've tried this with and without a couple of ad blockers and ghostery

Re: The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations

#50

Post by athenot »

> I've learned the hard way that Chrome is the new IE.

I started having similar thoughts when seeing sites that require Chrome because they use some (admittedly awesome) new browser feature that's not yet standard. It's given me flashbacks to the days where people used ActiveX for some accessory feature out of "coolness" when they could have had a slightly less fancy site but which would work across browsers.

Post reply on HN