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Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by cptskippy »

kannanvijayan wrote: post #25
c16 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've noticed this also. Gmail or anything by Google within Firefox is painful. Very very painful.

Just a heads up, but we are actively working on improving the situation here, and should have releases coming out that steadily and progressively improves the experience on this front. It is an area of major focus after the initial Quantum Flow effort, and we have technical fixes in many places in the pipeline to address this. (I work on the Javascript engine in Firefox, and improving our story here is one of my pers…

Are you saying that performance issues on Google properties are a bug in Firefox? The other posters were implying the issue was Google doing things to intentionally slow down performance in Firefox.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

#32

Post by Semaphor »

ashleyn wrote: post #4
bigiain wrote: post #2

While it's interesting to see ways to inhibit Chrome's new behaviour, getting into a privacy fight with your browser supplier seems to be a losing strategy...

Yes, it's only a matter of time until Chrome removes this flag, just like they removed developer support for disabling the autofill in web forms.

Oh wow, so that is why I had so many problems recently with using forms that supplied some kind of autofill themselves.

I wondered why that problem didn't happen with FF (which I switched to).

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by gardaani »

If I go to https://groups.google.com using my Android phone and Chrome 69 and press the sign out link, it won't sign me out. Next time I go to groups.google.com, I'm still logged in. What is the point showing the sign out link if it doesn't do anything? Thanks Google.

Firefox on Android properly signs me out.

One more reason why I don't use Android as my primary phone. I just don't trust Google.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

#36

Post by squarefoot »

sha666sum wrote: post #30
endymi0n wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you're completely on the mark with this, I noticed that Google pulls the new Microsoft now that it has almost a quasi monopoly on the desktop: Most of the new, complex UIs by Google services (read: GCP Cloud Console, all of Google Marketing Platform) are slowing my Firefox to a grinding halt, often times even crashing the tab. No problems in Chrome whatsoever. It's the only thing I'm using Chrome for these days…

I've ran into various comments around the internet/reddit that Google sites like Youtube are slower on Firefox, and that changing the user agent to Chrome fixes it.

No problems here: Waterfox plus usual privacy oriented addons then Hooktube replacing Youtube. Might seem excessive but works like charm.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/

https://hooktube.com/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hooktube-redi...

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

#37

Post by reacharavindh »

newscracker wrote: post #26

Thanks, but no thanks. Ditch Chrome and don’t worry about ugly hacks to remember or bookmark or ask about in the future when they no longer work. Life is too short to put up with such nonsense. There are better alternatives [1] available. P.S.: When you uninstall Chrome on certain platforms, it’ll open your default browser and direct you to a feedback page. Be honest and tell them why, and that you wouldn’t recommend…

I'll add one more to your side note.

Please tell your particularly non technical friends and relatives to avoid Google like plague if they care about privacy. Show them how - give a link to Firefox, Privacy badger.

A relative of mine who paid $7/month for a VPN service because he cared about his privacy from ISP, but was using Google Chrome and Gmail for sensitive personal Email. Fewer people from the non-engineering world know/understand what we assume is common sense. When you get a chance please don't hesitate to tell people of better choices.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

#38

Post by Paul-ish »

endymi0n wrote: post #13
breakingcups wrote: post #11

There's a great way to disable this and many other user-hostile features by going to https://www.mozilla.org/ and downloading Firefox. Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser.

While you're completely on the mark with this, I noticed that Google pulls the new Microsoft now that it has almost a quasi monopoly on the desktop: Most of the new, complex UIs by Google services (read: GCP Cloud Console, all of Google Marketing Platform) are slowing my Firefox to a grinding halt, often times even crashing the tab. No problems in Chrome whatsoever. It's the only thing I'm using Chrome for these days…

I had compatibility issues when I tried to use TensorBoard the other day. It doesn't even seem like they were trying for compatibility in that case.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

#39

Post by nadont8 »

breakingcups wrote: post #11

There's a great way to disable this and many other user-hostile features by going to https://www.mozilla.org/ and downloading Firefox. Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser.

>Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser.

I mean, if you're okay with Pocket showing you ads in your home page, your browsing data being sent to Cliqz, addons that publicise the "Mr Robot" TV show being installed without your consent, Mozilla pages that use Google Analytics scripts that cannot be blocked, then Firefox is a solid choice.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

#40

Post by c16 »

cptskippy wrote: post #31
kannanvijayan wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a heads up, but we are actively working on improving the situation here, and should have releases coming out that steadily and progressively improves the experience on this front. It is an area of major focus after the initial Quantum Flow effort, and we have technical fixes in many places in the pipeline to address this. (I work on the Javascript engine in Firefox, and improving our story here is one of my pers…

Are you saying that performance issues on Google properties are a bug in Firefox? The other posters were implying the issue was Google doing things to intentionally slow down performance in Firefox.

Not stating Google is intentionally slowing down things - but I've noticed that Google products and only Google products are slow to render, slow to click into the search field of Google Maps, and when I press 'compose' within Gmail on a macbook pro 2017 I can wait easilly 10 seconds before the email bit pops up. Within Chrome however, quick and slick.
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