> 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.
Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
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Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
#22This sounds backwards to me. If anything, you should be quitting Google, the search engine, rather than their browser. Google can live without you being a Chrome user, but it hurts them if you switch to Bing or duckduckgo.
Being a Chrome user means they get even more of your delicious data...
Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
#23This sounds backwards to me. If anything, you should be quitting Google, the search engine, rather than their browser. Google can live without you being a Chrome user, but it hurts them if you switch to Bing or duckduckgo.
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.
Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
#24I switched from Chrome as my default browser after two years of using it just two months back. Sometimes Firefox isn't able to render certain websites and rather spits out the html, but aside from that, I haven't had any issues. I think it works noticeably faster for me. I use it on both OS X and Windows, and it works great on both. It is also a lot more customizable and lets me run my own sync servers.
I find the problem you mention very odd. I've used Firefox for over a year and have never seen anything like that. Is it possible that you have some configuration messing it up? Otherwise all I can think of is that the sites are sending html content with the Content-Type header of "text/plain" and Chrome is deciding to render it as html based on other clues (which would be non-standard behavior).
Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
#25 Google should be employing a strategy of invisible control
Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
#26I've done the same. I use gmail a lot, I have an Android phone and I was using desktop Chrome for years. However I started to notice things that worried me, for example I would be using Chrome on my PC but definitely not logged into Gmail / Google+, then I would see that my recent google searches from the desktop Chrome would appear in my recent searches list on Android within seconds. I could somewhat accept that if…
This sounds like you have Chrome syncing turned on still.
Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
#27I 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.
My apologies for the off-topic, but I wanted to ask how you are finding Yosemite - is it stable enough for me to switch over my dev machine?
I have it too...it's really slow and it just has a general feel of instability to me. Everything takes pretty long to load and there are some weird graphical glitches with scrolling. Missing textures also abound, but that's a comparatively minor complaint. Handoff is even functioning on a rudimentary level, albeit only if you install iOS 8, which is far, far worse bug wise than Yosemite is.
I'd honestly wait. I put it on a separate partition so I didn't have to deal with it if it pooped out.
Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
#28I have switched once my laptop started lagging when Chrome is opened. Even mouse pointer stopped moving.
Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
#29Earlier 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.
Let's not forget that DDG uses google and sanitizes the results. So google doesn't get your personal information, but it does learn something from the DDG queries.
Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+
#30I 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.
My apologies for the off-topic, but I wanted to ask how you are finding Yosemite - is it stable enough for me to switch over my dev machine?
Yes, is pretty stable on my old MacBook white. The only thing that crashed was Xcode Playgrounds.
You also will see some pixelated rounded corners for some contextual menus... but hey, this is beta.
