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Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
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#62I believe they're deliberately misleading around what the issue is. It's not that Sync was enabled, it's that you were logged in period.
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#63I'm pleasantly surprised by this. This is nearly as good a short-term reaction as could have been hoped for over the current batch of issues.
Hopefully there was also an update to the privacy policy reflecting the new meaning of being signed into chrome?
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand, the piece looks like it promises to address all the problems highlighted in the past few days in Chrome 70. Why are you saying it is a PR piece?
Because there's literally nothing they could've said that would make them change their mind. This is the most reasonable response Google could've given. They've addressed every issue as promptly as possible, yet people just dismiss is as PR. It's a lose-lose battle, no matter what they do, people like this will always spin it in a negative way with zero justification.
They could have removed the feature entirely, or set it to a privacy-friendly and least-surprise friendly default.
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#65Made the move to firefox after the initial post came out about this "feature".
Surprised to say that not much has changed with the move. I was able to find all my extensions in the firefox addons. Life continues
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand, the piece looks like it promises to address all the problems highlighted in the past few days in Chrome 70. Why are you saying it is a PR piece?
Because there's literally nothing they could've said that would make them change their mind. This is the most reasonable response Google could've given. They've addressed every issue as promptly as possible, yet people just dismiss is as PR. It's a lose-lose battle, no matter what they do, people like this will always spin it in a negative way with zero justification.
Well they could have make the changes they're saying they're going to make in the first place. Or not have sent their developer relations goons out to say "move along, nothing to see here, folks" when people started complaining.
This is PR. It's damage limitation.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand, the piece looks like it promises to address all the problems highlighted in the past few days in Chrome 70. Why are you saying it is a PR piece?
The problems were easily foreseeable, and they did it anyway. Anyone who accepts this as "listening the users", and addressing the issues will likely get burned again in the future. Google is a advertising company. Their customers are not their users, and therefore I think things are unlikely to change.
> Their customers are not their users, and therefore I think things are unlikely to change.
Interesting concept. Care to expound? Would be interested in hearing more.
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#68This is not attempting to fit user needs, this is an attempt to put out a PR fire and salvage quarterly earnings. I'm still leaving, maybe even more-so because of the false heartfelt "ok let's do it your way". I will not be patronized, we're not on the same team anymore.
I don't understand, the piece looks like it promises to address all the problems highlighted in the past few days in Chrome 70. Why are you saying it is a PR piece?
they are solving issues and bugs that they probably already planned to address. they aren't doing anything because we asked them to, they are just pandering to their audience by saying that. IMO.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neither of those bugs have to do with 100% CPU on rMBP. Their about using an inefficient presentation path which increases GPU power usage. You can mitigate this today by setting gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true. Further, Firefox Beta has additional texture upload performance improvements that will reduce cpu usage. If you're actually experiencing 100% cpu usage, post a profile using https://perf-html.io/ and…
Steps to reproduce: 1) Pick a rMBP. Any one. 2) Set display options - "more space" under System Preferences. 3) Run Firefox. Load any website. No extensions; safe mode doesn't matter. 4) 100%+ CPU, fans kick up and run high, system gets hot and slows to a crawl. Chrome and Safari run totally fine under the same conditions. It's documented pretty thoroughly in the first Bugzilla link I posted; the second one is an off…
I don't have a rMBP, and others who may be curious to help may not either. Uploading performance profiles from various websites to the mentioned URL will give everyone something to poke at.
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#70Reading this was infuriating. The usability rationale is a blatant lie. They did it to attempt to get Chrome users to adopt Google services more, just like they have with Android, changing what were formerly simple, generic apps to tie into google services (Play Music instead of an audio player, Downloads advertising Google Drive, Keep instead of a note taking app, etc). I like and use a lot of Google products but I don't appreciate my preferences being disregarded.