Dear Firefox users; we all know you never will program a 3D application that runs smoothly at 1080p.
So please, Fuck your Fox, and go to hell.
Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
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Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#622The worst part about chrome for me is that I can't access my Gmail accounts through Chrome. That's right, I have to use Firefox to access Google's own product because Chrome won't play nice with my school Google Apps account that my school provided us for email. Whenever I try to get to my school account it redirects to the gmail account I used to sign into Chrome - this happens regardless of whether I try to access…
Click your user icon. Click add account. Add school account. Now you can use both.
Trust me I did, I wish it were that easy.
Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#623The worst part about chrome for me is that I can't access my Gmail accounts through Chrome. That's right, I have to use Firefox to access Google's own product because Chrome won't play nice with my school Google Apps account that my school provided us for email. Whenever I try to get to my school account it redirects to the gmail account I used to sign into Chrome - this happens regardless of whether I try to access…
To me that sounds like your school's sysadmin team is to blame, they don't seem to have figured out SSO. Both schools I've gone to (undergrad and graduate) had perfect Gapps integration, and both work perfectly in Chrome.
They have some other issues as well, the wireless is very difficult to connect to and the "program" that we had to download usually does not work. Android devices were not even supported at all until sometime in late 2013. The print queue is constantly frozen, and a few other problems I can't think of off the top of my head right now. All of this is strange because from what I understand the school has a decent computer science program but I was in humanities so I'm not sure.
Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#624Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion, not my employer's. Not representing my employer, read the links for yourself. I work at Google, not on Chrome.) > The value they get from knowing everything you do online? This is a myth. Or less politely, a lie you have been told. https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/browser/privacy/ is very clear about exactly when chrome reports back data, including what happens when you sign in. It doe…
Who said the browser has to report everything you do online to be of value. I don't claim to know anything about how Chrome works, so could be completely wrong in this, but my sense is that it is part of a broader desire to tie together tracking across all devices. Cracking that nut is very difficult from an analytics perspective, and having people logged in to Chrome across all devices provides a very convenient GUI…
> Again, I don't know what data Chrome makes available to Google's ad services, so please tell me if I am in fact incorrect here.
If you read the very detailed Chrome privacy policy (https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/browser/privacy/), you will see that it does nothing different to other browsers here (each server sees your IP address, cookies, etc). It does not send any form of uniquely identifiable ID with every request. Only some very specific cases (offline drive, google wallet, DRM auth, etc) send your signed-in userid, which they need in order to work at all.
Please read the privacy policy. People put a lot of time and effort into writing it and it answers all your questions.
Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#625Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Ad Block Plus extension is itself a notorious memory and CPU hog [1]. Chrome's slimmer uBlock extension has now been ported to Firefox [2]. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus... [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases
Thanks for the link to uBlock. I've been growing frustrated with Ghostery and AdBlock Plus, but didn't know of a good alternative. I'm giving uBlock a try, and so far, so good.
Although µBlock might be a lot slimmer than AdBlock Plus, according to this article [1] it's comparable with Ghostery. Ofcours µBlock is open source where Ghostery is not and I personlly really like µBlock's philosophy [2] about tracking and privacy.
[1] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/199188-%C2%B5block-aims...
Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#626Earlier quoted context omitted.
why don't? unused tabs won't consume much, or at least noticeable to me. I do have a coffee-break whenever I open my IDE
> why don't? unused tabs won't consume much, or at least noticeable to me. Because I COMPLETELY misread your original comment. :( I thought it read that you were using Chrome, not Firefox. I'm truly very sorry about that, eridal. My experiences are just like yours, though. Firefox works great for me (relatively low memory usage, up to and including 200+ tabs). Chrome, on the other hand, not so much. Hopefully you can…
hey, that's ok!! you don't really need to apologize, at all
Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#627Wow! Hold right there. Chrome uses shared memory among it's spawned processes on all operating systems. If you use Task Manager (Windows) / Activity Monitor (OSX) or something similar in Linux, you would see memory over-reported. Google for this: http://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+"shared+memory" Some info: http://www.chromium.org/developers/memory-usage-backgrounder Some more info: http://blog.chromium.org/2008/0…
Note that it still uses way more ram than firefox regardless. in firefox right now.. ive 4 tabs open and been using it for 2 hours.. 246megs used. I just started chromium 42.. open hacker news and theverge.. boom already at 311megs.(thats measured with about:memory) Another funny thing is that chromium "measures" ff memory but measures it as more than the OS or Firefox itself. Not too sure whats going on there, albei…
I get this, but before any conclusion is made correct memory usage must be done.
Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#628Chrome was always a non-starter for me without an option to cycle tabs in most-recently used order.
Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#629Chrome was always a non-starter for me without an option to cycle tabs in most-recently used order.
So you just gave up on it ? juat like that.
It's because of people like you that software ends up
slow and bloated..
Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#630Chrome was always a non-starter for me without an option to cycle tabs in most-recently used order.
So you just gave up on it ? juat like that. It's because of people like you that software ends up slow and bloated..
Wow. So you are saying that because I chose not to use Chrome that all software suffers? I didn't realize that there was only one good choice, or that Firefox was "slow and bloated," or that my choice of which software to use somehow contributes to the quality of code that software engineers outside of Google write.
MRU tabs is essential to my usage flow. Sorry if that hurts your feelings. I frequently have many tabs open, and I need to be able to quickly switch back and forth between two or three tabs. People have been clamoring for MRU tabs since Chrome came out, and Google and the Chromium developers simply ignore them. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161960