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This is just a grab at getting more user data. Where are all the Google employees who jump on any mention of Google to defend it with disclosures?
How is it more data? This only affects people who choose to set up Google accounts and then log in to them.
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I completely switched whenever FF quantum was released to stable. The experience is amazing. I will say I think chrome dev tools are better though.
I keep hearing how awesome FF quantum is. I always have a copy of FirefoxDeveloperEdition for the occasional compatibility testing, and I keep coming back to it over the last few months, the last time being yesterday, but it just feels as sluggish as ever, whereas Chrome just feels snappier until there are hundreds of open tabs. Am I using it wrong? Also, Firefox tabs are as ugly as ever (lots of thick lines), and th…
I really wanted Firefox to be a replacement for Chrome but it’s so much more sluggish that it’s not even a comparison.
This causes a few other problems. For example I use Hangouts Chat (chat.google.com) on my Google Apps account, and I also have a personal gmail. Ever since the change I have to log out from my personal gmail to use Hangouts Chat, because it is looking at my Chrome account and telling me that I'm not part of the organization. I can't switch to the Google Apps account at all.
Every Google product I've seen has an account switcher, usually in the top right corner, with either your display image or a letter in a circle, this includes Hangouts Chat.
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I agree, sadly its never that simple. I tried diligently (all in) to use Quantum when it came out, for over a month. It just wasn't stable/fast enough when running a larger number of tabs. I'm hopeful it will get there soon and I can ditch Chrome but its just not there for me, yet.
It might depend on your system resources, but I have +300 tabs open right now and I don't experience any problems. The only thing that's a bit slow is if I restart the browser, it takes a bit long to start up.
Related: Google also tightened the link between gmail and youtube. Logging into gmail logs you into youtube too (which is quite pointless at least for me). This had been the case for a while, but earlier it was possible to manually delete youtube cookies, which would log you out of yt but keep you logged into gmail. They removed this workaround a few months ago. My solution to this was to use chrome only for gmail, a…
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Alternatively, Brave browser seems to Un-Google their Chromium based browser: https://brave.com/download-dev/ " Brave Core will arrive in beta form in late September and in major release form most of the way through October " https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-ad-blocking-browser-gets-chr...
I tend not to install browsers and other important software from the internet. Is this packaged by any major distro ? What are the blockers ? Non-free bits, analytics etc. ? Honestly, I wouldn't pick a browswer unless it's packaged by fedora/debian.
to your system. https://www.chromium.org/administrators All solved. It survives updates/reinstalls.
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Alternatively just get Firefox, use https://ffprofile.com/ once, and stop dealing with Chrome. Ta-da, no more spyware.
Yes, this move is a deal breaker. Defaults matter, so I'm switching to Firefox.
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Multiple users may use the same browser/devices but different Gmail accounts. Even ignoring the ( many ) privacy implications, this causes problems for syncing across devices. Lets say I share a computer with my partner, but we have separate phones. Should I need to check which Gmail account is logged in before bookmarking something? Why can't we share a Chrome profile across those 3 devices while still maintaining s…
> Multiple users may use the same browser/devices but different Gmail accounts. Why would they use the same browser logon. Sure they might use the same be, sure, they might even not use a different user account on the computer, but your are suggesting that they would use the same Google account to log into the browser yet different Google Accounts to log into Google. That seems improbable, and likely to have unintend…
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Does it actually work now? How do you manage two separate logins in a single window in Chrome. FF manages this with containers but I know of no way of doing this with Chrome.
I used to do this in chrome. You can click on your profile picture in the upper-right corner of the gmail UI to switch accounts. You end up having a different URL per user, like " rel="nofollow">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/ , where is 0 or 1 if you have two users. You can put these in bookmarks and have them open in different tabs.