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Because users don't know what they want, right Google?
I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph ...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I've accumulated over the years[...] I had to stop and say "wait, what?" To leverage his analogy that it is like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there, it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for…
To be fair quite a few users left Firefox because they found it "bloated" or "it didn't work anymore" but never realized they were the ones that installed the bloat/adware/malware.
The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID. Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.
The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID. Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.
The total market share of people who care about whether or not their browser is linked with their Google account is probably less than one percent. The value they get from knowing everything you do online? I'm not sure how you'd calculate that, but I'm positive it's greater than losing the tiny number of hackers who are protective of their personal data.
Google will continue to build the browser under the assumption that your browser will be linked with your Google account. If you don't link, you'll be a permanent edge case.
If you don't want to link your account, it's much easier to just switch browsers.
I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph ...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I've accumulated over the years[...] I had to stop and say "wait, what?" To leverage his analogy that it is like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there, it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for…
To be fair quite a few users left Firefox because they found it "bloated" or "it didn't work anymore" but never realized they were the ones that installed the bloat/adware/malware.
I was using then Firefox 2 or 2.5 (don't remember) quite happily.
It was just great (compared to Explorer).
Chrome showed up... But Firefox 2.5 was still much better.
Then one day, Firefox started to INSIST to install 3.0, then 3.5, then one day it just did, no matter how hard I tried to keep my old version.
And then behold, Firefox 3.5 had a bigger interface, that used more screen space (and I am in Brazil, bigger screens and bigger resolutions get expensive FAST, my current laptop, that is a ASUS gaming one, is still 14 inches and the maximum vertical res is 768, screens better than that were unaffordable to me), and it was SLOW, VERY, VERY slow, like RIDICULOUS slow.
So I hopped into Chrome... and I wish I could say I never looked back, but hogging 600mb just to load reuters.com webpage is NOT nice.
I am only still using chrome for google-ecosystem reasons.
If I could get rid of relying on google stuff (several work-related things depend on google) I probably would get on Firefox or Opera (or see if I can put Konqueror on Windows? I never tried that...)
For me the performance has never been a problem, but the end of NPAPI support may also force me back to FF.
Uh, aren't they both dropping support? [0] [0] https://github.com/shotgunsoftware/browser-plugin/issues/13
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If you use AdBlockPlus, you can switch to uBlock ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock ) to achieve better memory performance.
How painless is the transition with a fairly large collection of custom filters and the like?
> A filter can be a plain hostname, or an Adblock Plus-compatible filter. Lines prefixed with ‘!’ will be ignored.
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He mentioned importing all of his plugins and preferences from Chrome back into Firefox, so it stands to reason that his benchmark between the two is roughly the same. As for the question of will it change? Well, to be frank, it shouldn't. It's known, however, that it will: Chrome in particular is known to not handle the accumulated history well. I haven't had a similar experience with Firefox, but that's only one da…
plugins / extensions are not imported between chrome and firefox, which is the bulk that is being referred to.
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Exactly, Safari handles 90% of web needs and doesn't clog up my memory the way Chrome does. It handles my battery exponentially better then Chrome as well. Then with adblock plus, lastpass and pocket I'm all set on extensions.
> doesn't clog up my memory the way Chrome What exactly is "clogging up memory" that everyone here complains about? I can understand if Chrome is using 6 / 8gb of your ram and you are simultaneously running photoshop and it can't grab any memory due to Chrome, but is this the case? Shouldn't Chrome use as much RAM as it can to ensure speedy performance provided its not starving out any other applications? I have litt…