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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

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Available in Homebrew Cask as "eloston-chromium" (Though frankly, if you're using a Mac, Safari should be your browser of choice, if only for privacy reasons.)

Safari is my browser of choice. Until they killed off extensions with Safari 12, just a few days ago.

I’m not sure what you mean here. I just used safari 12 with extensions installed. Are there new restrictions for extensions?

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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post #99

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Available in Homebrew Cask as "eloston-chromium" (Though frankly, if you're using a Mac, Safari should be your browser of choice, if only for privacy reasons.)

Safari is my browser of choice. Until they killed off extensions with Safari 12, just a few days ago.

> Until they killed off extensions with Safari 12, just a few days ago.

At best this is a strong exaggeration, and at worse completely wrong.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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post #110
post #104

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I really want to use Firefox on Android, but I need a couple things: Desperately need the scrolling in Firefox to feel like scrolling in the rest of the apps. And I would very much like easy tab switching by swiping across the title bar thing, and the new tab/new incognito/back button behaviour. Pls Moz pls

And pull down on page to reload

God no!

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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post #109

I'm very upset at this. I use an ad blocker to block analytics and advertising beacons. I want to be signed into gmail and google properties, but not Chrome. I don't want my history to be sync'd to Google's servers for advertising. Now you can't use Chrome if you want your privacy anymore.

Even worse: did they surreptitiously capture the browsing history of everyone that has intentionally avoided signing into chrome over the last few years? I'm glad I switched to firefox a year ago and have auto update on chrome disabled.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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post #101

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Available in Homebrew Cask as "eloston-chromium" (Though frankly, if you're using a Mac, Safari should be your browser of choice, if only for privacy reasons.)

>(Though frankly, if you're using a Mac, Safari should be your browser of choice, if only for privacy reasons.) What privacy protections does Safari have that Firefox doesn't? (Keeping in mind the vast extension store - I include extensions like NoScript within the umbrella of "Firefox")

Moreover, does Safari provide something similar to Firefox's tab containers? Blocking Facebook, Amazon et al. from tracking me across the web is a big deal in my book.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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post #93

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Which is all great until it gets it wrong, and you have to fight against it. Just this morning I was trying to google a specific car problem, and it decided I was actually looking for a different problem. Had to rephrase my search many times for it to give me what I wanted. I wish there was a search modifier that turned off all the cleverness.

There used to be. It was called "verbatim" search. I can't seem to find it anymore. Quoting the exact phrase gets you a similar result, though.

Click 'Tools', then 'All results', choose 'Verbatim'. It's a terrible design, but it's still there.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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The new Google Chrome design with version 69 marked the beginning of a new era – Google wants to portray Chrome as something that is way more than a browser. They want you to see it as the primary interface of the web. This is what the average user wants. All complex functionality has been put in the background. Cross-platform integration has been perfected. Give it a year and users around the world will no longer th…

That might all accurately describe what they'd like to achieve, but fortunately we still live in a free market society where there's room for competition (and if there isn't, regulators often step in). I don't find Google to be the best search experience anymore. It gives me too many ads and partnership deals. I use searx.me and it gives me good old fashioned organic web search with results that are just as good. Ple…

searx.me - I like, but no URL's for SERP's and browser navigation (back-button) doesn't work.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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post #98

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I tried using Firefox Quantum since Safari 12 closed off most extensions. Firefox Quantum is laggy in comparison, particularly the UI (web page rendering is fine). For example, dragging tabs to other windows is jittery. Launching preferences page is a bit delayed.

I don't understand why people keep saying Safari closed some extensions. It simply disabled them and they're ready to be enabled again in the preferences panel, simple as that.

From what I understand, now you cannot install unsigned extensions. You might have some “grandfathered” if they were already installed, but anything new (on new machines etc) won’t get in. So, effectively, if the developer was unable or unwilling to pay the Apple tax, the extension was killed.

Re: Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

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post #38

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I used to this do exactly, but switching to Firefox containers made Chrome redundant. Chrome uses too much memory to leave it running just for few websites, and Google including analytics script as builtin library was the last straw.

> Google including analytics script as builtin library Wait, what? Do you have a source for this?

My bad, sorry, I was shown wrong in the below submission which I stopped checking few days after I posted it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16657472

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