Is there anything like this going on on Linux? I don't really use it, but I have it in case I need to do dev testing.
Chrome Is Bad
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Re: Chrome Is Bad
#42Chrome's security is, however, light years ahead of anyone else's; it remains the sole reason I still use it. It's possible to use Little Snitch to deny Keystone/ksupdate all network access, which is what I do, which removes the Google RCE vulnerability it places on your machine. Make sure to periodically manually update Chrome, however.
What evidence do you have to back up that claim?
For "proof", you can check how much exploit vendors pay for exploits for each browser. For example Zerodium offer:
* $500k for Chrome RCE
* $100k for Safari RCE
* $100k for Firefox RCE
https://zerodium.com/program.html
The higher amount would generally indicate its harder to get an RCE in Chrome.
Re: Chrome Is Bad
#43The author went so far as to create a domain for this rant, and yet didn't even do any performance metrics or basic forensic analysis at all. I'm not saying the author is wrong, but there's a lot of questions here. How does Keystone hide itself from the Activity Monitor? Is there a Keystone process if you run `ps aux`? Did you run dtruss/strace? What is it doing when Chrome isn't running that causes it to degrade per…
Possible correlation and hand waving equals causation. I, too, was hoping for something, well, technical. Considering #1 on hacker news...
Re: Chrome Is Bad
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like homebrew maybe? ;-)
homebrew is non-commercial and updates on-run, rather than in the background, but frankly yes if they had a commercial offering I think they have the brand trust to make this work
Re: Chrome Is Bad
#45Found an old thread involving the Google Keystone tech lead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21065504
Re: Chrome Is Bad
#46Re: Chrome Is Bad
#47The author went so far as to create a domain for this rant, and yet didn't even do any performance metrics or basic forensic analysis at all. I'm not saying the author is wrong, but there's a lot of questions here. How does Keystone hide itself from the Activity Monitor? Is there a Keystone process if you run `ps aux`? Did you run dtruss/strace? What is it doing when Chrome isn't running that causes it to degrade per…
Possible correlation and hand waving equals causation. I, too, was hoping for something, well, technical. Considering #1 on hacker news...
It's nearly an exact match of the meme like utterance often seen on reddit: "chrome bad".
Re: Chrome Is Bad
#48An analogy I see here is the scene from an old film where a woman walks behind a wooden screen and a goose walks out thus the woman is a shape shifting witch.
Re: Chrome Is Bad
#49The author went so far as to create a domain for this rant, and yet didn't even do any performance metrics or basic forensic analysis at all. I'm not saying the author is wrong, but there's a lot of questions here. How does Keystone hide itself from the Activity Monitor? Is there a Keystone process if you run `ps aux`? Did you run dtruss/strace? What is it doing when Chrome isn't running that causes it to degrade per…
Re: Chrome Is Bad
#50I do often have a windowserver hang.
I don't really use Chrome much (just for testing, or the odd times that a site won't work on Safari). Not a big deal for me to rip it out.
If it were a tool that I use all the time, though, I might be more comfortable with a posting that had a bit more detail.