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Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by jmillikin »

quotient wrote: post #8

I don't understand why Chromium isn't a more popular alternative to Google Chrome. It's the open-source basis of Google Chrome. It runs noticeably faster than Firefox, while being similarly trustworthy. It's a great browser, available on all conventional operating systems. What's not to like?

Chromium doesn't have stable builds, and the official snapshot binaries don't auto-update. This isn't so bad if you're using an OS with a package manager such as Debian, but it makes Chromium completely impractical for Windows and MacOS users.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by [deleted] »

quotient wrote: post #8

I don't understand why Chromium isn't a more popular alternative to Google Chrome. It's the open-source basis of Google Chrome. It runs noticeably faster than Firefox, while being similarly trustworthy. It's a great browser, available on all conventional operating systems. What's not to like?

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Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by midnitewarrior »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #7

I switched browsers for a different reason: I installed OS X Yosemite beta and it seems like the Safari browser uses far less COU resources, noticeable by longer battery life.

Chrome (browser) is becoming its own operating system. On windows there is about 10 processes running in the background when I have Chrome open that take up massive amounts of memory and are using the CPU.

Safari is simply a browser, probably using far fewer resources.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by frik »

subsection1h wrote: post #18
zobzu wrote: post #2

I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. I wonder if thats related to OSX. Regardless, I agree with the move 100%. Thanksfully, while Firefox may not be the best, its very good/useable for everything. If ever it isnt good enough anymore and there is no other replacement - this is when we'll really be cornered

> I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. In my experience, people who think Chrome is faster than Firefox never have hundreds of tabs open. I like Chrome and I use it for development, but I use Firefox for general web browsing because it handles hundreds of tabs much, much better. Not only is Firefox's performance better, but Firefox extensions such Tree Style Tab and Session Manager are vastly…

Browsers that use several child processes (like IE, Chrome, Safari/WebKit2) are faster, have less latency, crashes involve only one tab and the child processes run with limited OS priviledges ("sandbox") than browsers with only one process (Firefox, Safari/WebKit1).

Mozilla is working on a multi-process Firefox, one can activate it with a hidden flag (it is still not production ready, and it will break several old plugins).

With multi-process browsers one can have hundreds of tabs open for weeks (if you have enough RAM like 8+ GB).

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by a-nikolaev »

jolurox wrote: post #23
lelandbatey wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but switching to Firefox also hurts me a lot less than switching to Duck Duck Go.

DDG is great. The instant answers feature is awesome, honestly I prefer it.

Agreed. I have been using DDG for ~two years. Maybe once or twice a week, I actually ask DDG to search in google (with awesome "!g" or "!img" bang-commands). DDG works consistently great, and the new DDG is even better, with auto-completion, images and video tabs. And I'm using Firefox as well.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by sliverstorm »

jmillikin wrote: post #21

> Google should be employing a strategy of invisible > control over how people interact, [...] They should be > quietly creating and controlling channels of > communication that I cannot live without. Wait, what? You don't mind a third party controlling how you interact, but you hate being told about it?

It sounds to me more like, "Make it so good it's indispensable to me, rather than trying to force me to use it"

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by Nostaris »

subsection1h wrote: post #18
zobzu wrote: post #2

I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. I wonder if thats related to OSX. Regardless, I agree with the move 100%. Thanksfully, while Firefox may not be the best, its very good/useable for everything. If ever it isnt good enough anymore and there is no other replacement - this is when we'll really be cornered

> I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. In my experience, people who think Chrome is faster than Firefox never have hundreds of tabs open. I like Chrome and I use it for development, but I use Firefox for general web browsing because it handles hundreds of tabs much, much better. Not only is Firefox's performance better, but Firefox extensions such Tree Style Tab and Session Manager are vastly…

I swapped from Firefox to Chrome, in chromes early days.. but switched again because Firefox has lazy loaded tabs = no lag at startup yay.
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