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Why I’m done with Chrome

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Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by JoshMnem »

emayljames wrote: post #191
mamcx wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I try to change this week but I'm unable to make zoom to work well (Chrome is perfect to me. Safari not work neither). Exist a way to make it work? (ie: Maker a goblal zoom and a per-domain/page)

Stylish addon can do this. Install it then use userstyles website to find the custom script you need.

Stylish apparently had spyware problems after being bought by another company.[1] Stylus[2] is the fork.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/chrome-and-fi...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by cpeterso »

sha666sum wrote: post #64
lucb1e wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're really set on a Chrome-like browser, there's ungoogled chromium. Otherwise, I guess Firefox is the only truly free choice at this point, and even that includes DRM to be able to cope with sites like Netflix. Edit: actually, there should be more browsers that I don't know about because I haven't really looked around anymore since choosing Firefox a decade ago. Is anything as well-supported (in terms of prope…

Firefox DRM is only downloaded after explicit user consent.

Firefox currently downloads the (Google Widevine) DRM blob automatically. Firefox will prompt you before using the DRM blob to play video, but you have two options if you don't want it on your computer:

* You can uncheck Firefox's "Play DRM-controlled content" option (which will delete the DRM blob from disk). https://support.mozilla.org/kb/enable-drm

* Or you can install one of Mozilla's "EME-free" builds of Firefox. The only difference between regular and "EME-free" builds is the default value of the "Play DRM-controlled content" option.

http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/62.0.2/

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by JoshMnem »

ourcat wrote: post #316
0xmohit wrote: post #90

Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google had taken itself the right to listen to every conversation in every room that runs Chrome somewhere, without any kind of consent from the people eavesdropped on. In official statements, Google shrugged off the practice with wh…

I always have my sound input/mic levels set to zero in settings. They can't bypass that.

I think they could do that if they wanted, if you're entering your root password during the install.

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by ummonk »

kwijibob wrote: post #349

A minority view: I do care about privacy but this behaviour is what I expect from Chrome. We have a number of profiles on our shared family PC and people expect logging into chrome or gmail will also log into the other. For me it's the price of entry for using the google ecosystem. I was already using gmail/gdocs/chrome sync daily, so it just makes life easier. If I really need privacy I go to incognito or another br…

Yeah, I actually understand the experience they're trying to create here, and it jives with the general goal of trying to create a consistent identity-based experience for all Google products.

However, this isn't for me (I used to be annoyed enough by my Android phone wanting to sync everything to Google's servers, and switched to an iPhone as a result), and what I hate is that Google never notified users of the change - I probably would have taken a long while to notice this if I hadn't heard about it on HN.

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by chrisweekly »

sergiotapia wrote: post #260
ikketilstede wrote: post #160

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Thank you for this suggestion. I truly appreciate it. I just dumped Chrome on mobile and started using Firefox. While it is a fast browser it is nothing compared to Brave. I'm completely blown away by this browser. Now I'm going to install Brave on my desktop as well.

FYI I'm also using Brave on my mobile device. It's fantastic there as well.

Does Brave support quality dev tools?

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by stormbrew »

skndr wrote: post #120

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

I mean, polymer also broke most of the chromecast functionality in google's own browser to the point that I have to use ?disable_polymer=1 to really use it at all from a browser (really I mostly just use it from my phone now), so this doesn't seem terribly surprising by comparison.

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by thrower123 »

contem wrote: post #358
StudentStuff wrote: post #317

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Does one really want to associate themselves with Brendan Eich though? Brave is what he has been building after being ejected from Mozilla. While Brendan has built some interesting and useful things including Javascript, he is apparently poisonous enough to cause three of Mozilla's board members to resign, including a founding executive of Yahoo, the former CEO of AVG, and the former CEO of Mozilla Corp (from 2008 to…

The disagreements were about strategy and mobile experience, so not enough to call someone poisonous. Place Yahoo, AVG, and Moz Corp against Brendan's co-founder status and JavaScript. The other toxic drama was about a 1000$ political donation. Very sad to see an unpopular view used to paint someone as a monster. If democratic political views are enough to kill someones career, it is more a sign of the toxicity of to…

The fact that Eich was pilloried after the fact for what was at the time a mainstream political opinion is absurd.

Brave is fantastic on android though.

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by commandlinefan »

Although I agree with and respect the author’s opinion here - I’ve all but given up on not being tracked across the internet. At this point, dozens if not hundreds of faceless corporations can easily put together who I am and what I’ve looked at and posted on the internet for at least the past 15 years, and there’s nothing I can do about it any more.

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by rsyring »

krapp wrote: post #249
fma wrote: post #239

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Money is the root of all evil. That's why they got rid of the mantra, as it meant 'Do no money'... And they need to please share holders. I got rid of chrome when I noticed it hoggged my memory and CPU, and decided to try Firefox. Firefox is much more processor friendly for me at least.

>Money is the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil.

> The love of money is the root of all evil.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. (1 Tim 6:10 ESV)

:)

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by rosser »

brian-armstrong wrote: post #34
hellofunk wrote: post #22

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I wish I could use it but it has serious performance problems on macOS. I tried and it was just terrible. (thought not all Mac users have problems, quite a number do, and Mozilla has an open issue asking for debugging logs from Macs to find the reasons).

Strange. I almost exclusively use OSX (El Cap) and haven't had performance issues asides from needing to restart the browser once a month or so. Hopefully they get those problems resolved soon, the browser is super quick when it's working right.

Are you using a "scaled" resolution? If so, there's a bug in redrawing that pegs a core, and kills battery life.

It can be mitigated by setting

  gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque = true
in about:config, but the fix is invasive, and has taken years to get prioritized and worked on. I've seen reports that it should finally be done in FF64 or 65.
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