What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
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Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
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#42Re: Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like people sleep on safari, especially on Macs.
JavaScript Chrome developers did a good job of convincing people that Safari is the new IE. I love Safari on macOS. I love the pinch/zoom with the tabs. I love that private browsing mode, at least seems to, keep things contained to the tab they started with. e.g. if I open facebook in a private tab then open new tab and go to facebook, it’s going to make me login.
You're drinking Apple kool-aid if you think Safari isn't holding web back.
Lots of anti-google people dislike Safari. Safari isn't the only non-google option you know.
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#44I hope people can get a "Stop Using Chrome" movement going, like we did with Internet Explorer long ago.
Idk, isn't that how we got Chrome? Isn't this inviting someone else to be the new Internet abuse daddy?
No, that was Firefox. Chrome's spread was fueled by literal malware or spyware bundling it to get some of Google's sweet money and some of the most aggressive advertisement campaigns for any online product ever.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like people sleep on safari, especially on Macs.
JavaScript Chrome developers did a good job of convincing people that Safari is the new IE. I love Safari on macOS. I love the pinch/zoom with the tabs. I love that private browsing mode, at least seems to, keep things contained to the tab they started with. e.g. if I open facebook in a private tab then open new tab and go to facebook, it’s going to make me login.
Developers don't convince anyone of anything! They just build stuff according to standards (which are inevitably set not by standards orgs, but by the most popular browsers), and then they expect all browsers to follow those standards and "just work".
When a browser like Safari fails to adhere to those standards, sites will break ... but you can't expect developers (of most sites; I'm not talking about the top 100 or anything) to test in every possible browser ... and then change their code to accommodate them. Certainly not in ones with single-digit percentages of market share, that require their own OS to test (like Safari).
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#46I've noticed that recent Chrome version does not allow me to download the pdf I'm viewing. I had to open it in Firefox. The Chrome browser only allowed me to save it to drive (cloud)
Did you try finding a print button?
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
JavaScript Chrome developers did a good job of convincing people that Safari is the new IE. I love Safari on macOS. I love the pinch/zoom with the tabs. I love that private browsing mode, at least seems to, keep things contained to the tab they started with. e.g. if I open facebook in a private tab then open new tab and go to facebook, it’s going to make me login.
You're drinking Apple kool-aid if you think Safari isn't holding web back. Lots of anti-google people dislike Safari. Safari isn't the only non-google option you know.
Apple is slow to adopt new features, sure but Google bulldozes features to be first to market so it can implemented the way they want it implemented.
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#48I've noticed that recent Chrome version does not allow me to download the pdf I'm viewing. I had to open it in Firefox. The Chrome browser only allowed me to save it to drive (cloud)
Did you try finding a print button?
To… save? I get that you can print to a file and it’ll save it that way of course, but damn that strikes me as really confusing for non-techies
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#49Without the suggestion to install an adblocker, this is not credible advice.
The FBI recommends using an adblocker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41483581