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Chrome's turning 10, here's what's new

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Re: Chrome's turning 10, here's what's new

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testvox wrote: post #23
cheeze wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meanwhile, Mozilla is pushing forward in that area! https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/08/30/changing-... I'm almost 100% Firefox at this point. I trust Mozilla.

I'm on waterfox. Mozilla lost my trust when they started installing advertising extensions without user permission. https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...

Poor play on Mozilla's part, sure, and they paid their price. But it seems pretty damn silly to switch off Firefox for good because of this. In fact you'd be directly impacting the only browser vendor that does care about your privacy, reducing their ability to push forward with privacy focused initiatives. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!

But, if you want to use a poorly maintained, out of date and insecure fork of Firefox privacy reasons (as if Mozilla is somehow terrible in this area!) then go for it, but understand you're sacrificing your security for no particularly good reason whilst simultaneously reducing their impact in influencing the design of a privacy orientated web.

Re: Chrome's turning 10, here's what's new

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Post by orf »

exodust wrote: post #29

I doubt anyone gives a toss if Chrome is having a "10th birthday" except Google. Never liked how this browser forces updates down your throat including "new looks" without any choice. Feels like software I have zero control over, if every time I open it, a new version of itself downloads and installs without my permission. Google enjoys forcing itself on users regularly without consent. Which is creepy when put like…

Browsers have a huge, huge attack surface that is persistently exploited. Every single release contains a lot of nasty bugs fixed in various places. Not to single Firefox out here, but take a look at their release notes[1].

- 4 critical, 5 high vulns fixed in 61.

- 2 critical, 7 high in 60.

- 4 critical, 4 high in 59.

Your feelings on not liking security updates 'forced down your throat' are kind of immaterial. They absolutely should be. And that's the price you pay. Not a huge one, by any means.

1. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

Re: Chrome's turning 10, here's what's new

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mholt wrote: post #16
soperj wrote: post #9

That password piece seems particularly dangerous, and a huge lock in.

But that's helpful for the 99% of Chrome users who aren't technical enough to even know that they should be using a password manager. Having a halfway-decent password manager "just work" when they "open the Internet" is still a huge plus.

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Re: Chrome's turning 10, here's what's new

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Post by mholt »

Andrex wrote: post #28
mholt wrote: post #10

Their Android screencasts look nice but my Pixel 2 still doesn't have that slick new launcher (I am on Pie, however). Did anyone get that update?

You have to turn on "Swipe up on home button" in Pie to get it.

Oh my, that's it. Thanks!

Re: Chrome's turning 10, here's what's new

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Post by Jerry2 »

fixermark wrote: post #31
Jerry2 wrote: post #7

How about fixing some bugs? Chrome/Chromium for Linux stopped remembering which windows are minimized and which are not after a restart. Such an annoying bug that surfaced less than a year ago. Still not fixed.

I wonder if that's a Chrome bug or a bug in a popular window manager users are using.

It's a Chromium bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=827711

Re: Chrome's turning 10, here's what's new

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Post by kart23 »

kareemm wrote: post #20
cheeze wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meanwhile, Mozilla is pushing forward in that area! https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/08/30/changing-... I'm almost 100% Firefox at this point. I trust Mozilla.

I trust Mozilla and have zero trust in Google. But I just switched back to Chrome after an experiment with Firefox. It’s just too much of a resource hog vs Chrome. Hopefully they sort that out soon.

Really? What use case? I've had the opposite experience, ff uses much less ram than chrome.
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