https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2765944?hl=en&co=GE...
Let Chrome scan your computer for malware? I wonder what is the cost for a free malware...
Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
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Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#22Chromium Ungoogled repo [1] made it to the `top30` some days ago. I too have switched back to Firefox with the release of Quantum and have been very pleased. Frankly, I am amazed every day that Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox, & DDG.co are as good as they are. (aka: slightly inferior to Google regarding product polish, but truly "good enough" 98% of the time - without selling my future data down the drain) (edited: to fi…
I rate Firefox pretty highly since Quantum released. It's fast, polished and in my unscientific testing, consumes less resources.
Except battery, it is a battery destroyer unfortunately.
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#23> [googlers] were wondering why the new behaviour might feel abusive to some people.
That says something about how out of touch Google is at the moment.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I rate Firefox pretty highly since Quantum released. It's fast, polished and in my unscientific testing, consumes less resources.
Except battery, it is a battery destroyer unfortunately.
Or fortunately for those of us who use desktop computers. Usually battery performance enhancements decrease actual performance. It's a real shame so much good software is gimped just so people can run it on mobile.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I rate Firefox pretty highly since Quantum released. It's fast, polished and in my unscientific testing, consumes less resources.
Except battery, it is a battery destroyer unfortunately.
One would think that would be as a direct result of consuming more resources, not less. What is it doing to drain your power, do you know?
I really want to switch from Chrome -> Firefox for dev work but my MBP’s battery already lasts nowhere near “10 hours”...
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#26Syncing Chrome across devices has long rendered the point moot. If you wanted syncing you were already logged in to the browser. If you didn't want syncing, there was no reason to use Chrome.
Chrome is not the only browser to do syncing, and syncing is not the only feature of Chrome. This comment makes no sense.
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#27Syncing Chrome across devices has long rendered the point moot. If you wanted syncing you were already logged in to the browser. If you didn't want syncing, there was no reason to use Chrome.
And yet Firefox has sync too.
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#28Syncing Chrome across devices has long rendered the point moot. If you wanted syncing you were already logged in to the browser. If you didn't want syncing, there was no reason to use Chrome.
I don't want syncing but I still appreciate a good web rendering engine with frequent security updates. So you're wrong.
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#29I am seriously considering rolling my own browser by embedding the Chromium Embedded Framework into my own GUI (or WebKit, or Gecko). A browser should just render pages (incl. JavaScript), and save cookies if you need it to. Beyond that, there's nothing else it needs to do. Round about Netscape 4 and IE6, browsers were functionally complete. Since then they've just been gilding the lily and creating an artificial 'fe…
With ya. Started modding suckless surf to my liking, got sidetracked but I plan to keep working on it: https://github.com/jakeogh/glide Still trying to figure out how to control animated gif's in webkit2.
I liked the idea of those minimal vim like browsers, but webkit2 lib they all used was always hopelessly out of date, insecure and slow.
I've been keeping an eye on qutebrowser[1] though which offers either up to date [2]qtwebengine or webkit (qtwebengine is the browser engine of chromium minus all the google services and other garbage).
Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
#30I am seriously considering rolling my own browser by embedding the Chromium Embedded Framework into my own GUI (or WebKit, or Gecko). A browser should just render pages (incl. JavaScript), and save cookies if you need it to. Beyond that, there's nothing else it needs to do. Round about Netscape 4 and IE6, browsers were functionally complete. Since then they've just been gilding the lily and creating an artificial 'fe…
Why is this downmodded? it's a reasonable idea and qtwebengine is what you would use.