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Use Chrome.
Use Firefox. Why? Chrome isn't open source, if you care about that kind of thing. And personal preference also.
has extensions.
allows you to control the web, where chrome allows google to control the web for you (e.g. no way to disable referrer for one thing)
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That's not chrome.
It is very very close: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo... tl;dr: Chromium is Chrome minus: 1. Crash/usage reporting to Google. 2. Proprietary video format support 3. Embedded Flash implementation (which doesn't exist on mobile anyway). 4. Google API keys. If what you care about is security auditability, that's pretty good. If you care about running only open source software, that's going…
yet, the main advertisement google trhows for android is "open source" "community driven" yadda yadda
It's this sort of thing that puts me off Android as a platform. Even my mother got sold a 2.2 handset recently (Samsung Galaxy Ace) that hasn't been patched for the best part of 3 years. You never know when you're going to end up with a lemon on your hands. Big jump to this conclusion but I'm more inclined to trust Microsoft at the moment as they have a better reputation for lifetime (unlike Android), have a very pub…
I even asked the sales representative if it would be kept up to date (knowing I couldn't trust them, but was looking for any extra assurance), and they said yes.
Right now it's at 4.3 and wont upgrade...
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Who, engineers? Certainly not my wife or anyone else I have ever met who isn't technical.
My grandmother managed to switch entirely to Chrome on her PC without the help of anyone in our family. Anecdotal evidence works both ways. It isn't 1998. Most people know what a browser is and which one they are using on their desktop. Making the leap to a second browser on a phone (where they can easily get it from Google Play) isn't that ridiculous.
Replaced by Chrome ("that giant hog"). I'm on a slightly older phone, but I actually removed Chrome from it not long ago. I started having problems with updating apps due to insufficient space, and while I have a fair amount of crap installed, I also have ~2.5GB of "Phone" storage for apps so I started investigating (this is separate from "sdcard" data storage which is ~8GB). Turns out Chrome, at least on the HTC Ama…
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"a browser that isn't supported by Google" But still a browser that was created by Google and was bundled with the OS until 12 months ago, never mind how long it takes OEMs to roll it out. Android https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html?ut... Just because Google decided not to support it any more doesn't mean they shouldn't . Pointing out Firefox and Opera is all very well, but this is the default b…
Could they update it, though? I thought part of the reason they went to Chrome is that the AOSP browser is baked into the OS and so not updateable without updating the whole OS. So to patch it, they'd have to update the OS, but if you're doing that, then why not just move to the latest OS, which is already fixed?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/partners/#android
They make it for arm and x86 android.
They used to make a windows version but sadly stopped that build.
So the bug is only for a browser that isn't supported by Google? No surprise that it hasn't been patched. If security is such a big deal to a user they should use a browser that is supported by a strong development team. Firefox and Opera Mobile work fine on low end phones.
Wait, what ? I'm not an android user, but I am a chrome user on all of my desktops ... can someone enlighten me ? How is chrome not a browser supported by google ?
Replaced by Chrome ("that giant hog"). I'm on a slightly older phone, but I actually removed Chrome from it not long ago. I started having problems with updating apps due to insufficient space, and while I have a fair amount of crap installed, I also have ~2.5GB of "Phone" storage for apps so I started investigating (this is separate from "sdcard" data storage which is ~8GB). Turns out Chrome, at least on the HTC Ama…
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Who, engineers? Certainly not my wife or anyone else I have ever met who isn't technical.
My grandmother managed to switch entirely to Chrome on her PC without the help of anyone in our family. Anecdotal evidence works both ways. It isn't 1998. Most people know what a browser is and which one they are using on their desktop. Making the leap to a second browser on a phone (where they can easily get it from Google Play) isn't that ridiculous.