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For those who've switched over to Firefox recently and find Youtube inexplicably slow, it's "because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome." [0] The YouTube Classic extension will speed things up: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-class... [0] https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021626510296285185
This + the screwup of hiding ".m." and ".www." substrings in URLs + the public threat of getting rid of URLs entirely = patience wearing very thin. Also, enabling webUSB and webMIDI by default earlier, both of which apparently unneccesarily exposed vulnerabilities makes me wonder who's in charge, marketing or security engineering?
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=882902...
Whoever was in charge of the updates to the URL bar seems to be lacking something. But at least the URL doesn't show "https://" anymore, I guess?
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> there would be a seperate log-in process for Chrome versus every other google service Chrome is not a Google service. It is a web browser. It should act like one.
Is that just your opinion, or do you genuinely believe most Chrome users see it that way?
I engaged with the folks pushing this feature internally when my own browser started enforcing omnidirectional login. One of my specific complaints was that it was an end-run around the user-provided sync passphrase, which nominally prevents Google from hoovering up my logged-out history. They didn't grok my privacy issue. Maybe they were deliberately misunderstanding me. Doesn't matter either way. Now I use Firefox.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair )
It says “Download Chrome, or open in Safari”, and even though there’s a switch which says “Always ask which browser to use”, unchecking it (it’s checked by default, of course) only gets rid of this popup for a few days, then they show it again!
Also just in case you you've checked other blockchain-like projects, are they legit?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124108
This is a core thing for the system, and it contributes heavily to Firefox not feeling native.
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I stopped using Chrome when I wanted to have downloads automatically save to the desktop (no dialog). Turned out, there was a 2 year old open bug on the missing feature, in which Google UX engineers repeatedly argued allowing the save location to be changed was counter to the desired user experience. I switched to Firefox the next day and haven't touched Chrome since.
They can't just put in every random feature that anyone shows up and suggests.
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Google's culture breeds internal arrogance and blindness to outside concerns. Arguing with Google people about issues with their products is approximately as effective as arguing with a brick wall.
This may be true, but it's definitely not unique to Google. I know some well-meaning leftists who work for the leading Social Network and don't see any contradiction in that. I could imagine a high-flying company having entitled employees, I just don't see the qualitative difference between this or that company. Please enlighten me if I'm missing the point. And lest I sound arrogant myself: I once worked in Pharma an…
For those who've switched over to Firefox recently and find Youtube inexplicably slow, it's "because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome." [0] The YouTube Classic extension will speed things up: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-class... [0] https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021626510296285185
Seems that the days of "Best viewed in browser X" have come back sadly.