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Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by ur-whale »

One more reason: firefox will work on older Macs.

Case in point: Chrome started to misbehave on my fathers rather old Macbook (missing root certs, refuses to render google drive, etc...)

When I open Google drive, after being a completely cryptic (to a non-tech person) set of error messages, I realized I needed to upgrade Chrome.

I tried to upgrade Chrome and was told I'm on an unsupported version of OSX.

I tried to upgrade OSX and was told, no such thing exists on this older hardware.

Lo and behold, firefox has none of these issues.

Ditch Google as soon as you can, and Apple as well.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by wlindley »

ur-whale wrote: post #4

One more reason: firefox will work on older Macs. Case in point: Chrome started to misbehave on my fathers rather old Macbook (missing root certs, refuses to render google drive, etc...) When I open Google drive, after being a completely cryptic (to a non-tech person) set of error messages, I realized I needed to upgrade Chrome. I tried to upgrade Chrome and was told I'm on an unsupported version of OSX. I tried to u…

Ditch 'em all — Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon (the "evil MAGA"). It's like when folks complain about CNN or Fox News but keep feeding the beast by paying for subscription television: Stop hurting yourself, folks!
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