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I don't understand why people on Macs don't simply use Safari. It's good, it's fast, and it works really well.
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/2935/Apple-Safari.html?ven...
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?v...
Add to that Chrome has a far more secure version of Flash and yea, I'll be avoiding Safari (and Firefox) until they catch up.
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.
There are forks of chromium like iron improving the situation... If people would use them and contribute.
http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...
Also I hate how Google switched all of its apps to webapps, which work worse and use more resources than their native counterparts.
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> Superfluous RAM use hurts battery life a lot Do you have a reference for why this should be? A quick search yields results suggesting only the opposite (for instance, https://superuser.com/questions/738848/does-more-ram-usage-c... ).
More ram in use generally means more javascript crap running. Which means higher cpu/energy use. Its not the memory use its what is using the memory.
The second reason I don't use Chrome is with a logitech mouse on Mac, there are no good gesture extensions that I know of that will allow me to right-click / scroll wheel to zoom through open tabs. Actually, all gesture extensions seem crippled in some way or another.
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…
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exactly!! I don't want Google everywhere.That's why I changed the default search engine to duckduckgo. Let's see how it goes.
I tried that. DDG just wasn't even remotely good enough to service my searching habits. Instead, I've switched to Disconnect search. They proxy searches and claim to do so anonymously. So at least I'm not directly contributing to Google's profile building that way. It does add a second or two latency per search, which can be annoying. FF switched to Yahoo, and I'm just amused at how bad it is. They even open results…
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I've using firefox on a 4Gb linux machine for about two years so far.. and it's working just fine, each release it keeps better and better
Edit: I want to apologize to eridal. I misread his/her statement and though the browser in question was Chrome, not Firefox. So, public apolgy: I'm very sorry, eridal. I thought you wrote something you did not. My comment was wrong as a result. I have corrected my mistake, and wish to apologize to you personally for misreading what you wrote. Original message with the offending part removed, mistakenly assuming erida…
EDIT: After posting this comment, I closed all my tabs (something which causes one of my extensions - probably Tree Style Tab - to throw a confirmation dialog with the number of tabs). The number was 233, plus another ten or so in another window. I must say, that's pretty damn good, all things considered.
I'm trying out Nightly right now to see if I can push that even further with the new e10s features.