article: Google Chrome Is The Worst Browser
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hmm, So Chrome worked its way to the top and now is the one that has the biggest target on its back. That is all articles like this are saying. Hey I want to take pot shots at the most used/biggest thing out there. That being said there are other browsers. LOTS of other browsers. And this author only listed the big ones that everyone already knows about anyway. In the past 6 months I have tried out the following browsers Chrome - Just works! Opera - Works pretty Well Old Edge - ummm you mean IE 12? It sort of worked. IE11 - Needed for somethings avoid for all others. New Edge - Actually pretty spiffy. Brave - IT is a Brave new browser called Brave? It actually is worth checking out. I kind of like it. FireFox - See Opera. Sea Monkey - See Opera. only less so. Tor Browser - HAHAHAHA Yes it works slowly. Not sure why you would unless you want to hide what you are searching for. Which would cut down on ads if you are willing to go that route all the time. So all that being said. Who cares? Which one works for you use it.
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rnbergren wrote:
So Chrome worked its way to the top and now is the one that has the biggest target on its back. That is all articles like this are saying. Hey I want to take pot shots at the most used/biggest thing out there.
Exactly. It happened to IE, it happened to Firefox, now it's happening to Chrome. Welcome to the internet. I'm old enough to remember when Firefox came out and people talked about it like it cured cancer. "Gah, IE is RUBBISH, use Firefox", that's all you read. Now it's "Gah, Firefox is RUBBISH, use Chrome" and so on. It also makes me laugh when I see these kids rubbish webforms, MVC is great, now MVC is rubbish and the next thing is great. I always tell them that in a few years time what they think is great now they will think it's rubbish. I guess one thing experience teaches you is that things don't "become rubbish", it's just that other things improve. Meh.
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Be Brave.
I've got tears in my ears from lying on my back and crying over her.
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Be Brave.
I've got tears in my ears from lying on my back and crying over her.
I hate that chrome doesn't have a drop down arrow in the address bar for recently used sites as all other browsers do and have had since creation. I use SeaMonkey for general purpose browsing as it has integrated Thunderbird with RSS support too. I still use pop3. I find QBO and WooCommerce render best in chrome so I begrudgingly use it for those tasks.
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hmm, So Chrome worked its way to the top and now is the one that has the biggest target on its back. That is all articles like this are saying. Hey I want to take pot shots at the most used/biggest thing out there. That being said there are other browsers. LOTS of other browsers. And this author only listed the big ones that everyone already knows about anyway. In the past 6 months I have tried out the following browsers Chrome - Just works! Opera - Works pretty Well Old Edge - ummm you mean IE 12? It sort of worked. IE11 - Needed for somethings avoid for all others. New Edge - Actually pretty spiffy. Brave - IT is a Brave new browser called Brave? It actually is worth checking out. I kind of like it. FireFox - See Opera. Sea Monkey - See Opera. only less so. Tor Browser - HAHAHAHA Yes it works slowly. Not sure why you would unless you want to hide what you are searching for. Which would cut down on ads if you are willing to go that route all the time. So all that being said. Who cares? Which one works for you use it.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
rnbergren wrote:
Not sure why you would
Privacy. What else ? :rolleyes:
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I do not think there is good or bad or better or worse browsers. It is all a matter of personal taste in the end -yes, even if there are light differences in performance - so these articles are quite futile. That said, Edge is really the worst browser ever, especially combined with Bing.
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Be Brave.
I've got tears in my ears from lying on my back and crying over her.
I switched to brave on Friday, entirely because of a Mozilla blog entry - We need more than deplatforming - The Mozilla Blog[^] I don't need the web browser to pick/choose what I do/don't see.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
I switched to brave on Friday, entirely because of a Mozilla blog entry - We need more than deplatforming - The Mozilla Blog[^] I don't need the web browser to pick/choose what I do/don't see.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Thanks for pointing this out, though I doubt browsers will filter anything. It's the search engines that do that. But this is the second imbecilic thing I've read on this blog, so they only have one strike left.
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I switched from Firefox some years ago and never regretted it. And I even installed Chrome on my iPad to replace the awful Safari. From what I have seen of Edge (when MS forces me to use it) it is not that wonderful.
When using any browser on an iPad, you are using the Safari rendering engine because that's the only one Apple allows on *their* devices. So, on an iPad, the Chrome browser is a skin that replaces the Safari skin. You may prefer that skin, but in terms of rendering, etc., it's Safari all the way down. Note that it's not *your* iPad, it's *theirs*. It's nice of them to let you use it.
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I switched to brave on Friday, entirely because of a Mozilla blog entry - We need more than deplatforming - The Mozilla Blog[^] I don't need the web browser to pick/choose what I do/don't see.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
I switched from Firefox some years ago and never regretted it. And I even installed Chrome on my iPad to replace the awful Safari. From what I have seen of Edge (when MS forces me to use it) it is not that wonderful.
Sadly Edge is just another Chrome, reporting to a different HQ. No, Chrome is not perfect, because remaining on top is easy if you are big enough to break others' products. The only sane browser on Windows was IE11, just look at it's memory usage.
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hmm, So Chrome worked its way to the top and now is the one that has the biggest target on its back. That is all articles like this are saying. Hey I want to take pot shots at the most used/biggest thing out there. That being said there are other browsers. LOTS of other browsers. And this author only listed the big ones that everyone already knows about anyway. In the past 6 months I have tried out the following browsers Chrome - Just works! Opera - Works pretty Well Old Edge - ummm you mean IE 12? It sort of worked. IE11 - Needed for somethings avoid for all others. New Edge - Actually pretty spiffy. Brave - IT is a Brave new browser called Brave? It actually is worth checking out. I kind of like it. FireFox - See Opera. Sea Monkey - See Opera. only less so. Tor Browser - HAHAHAHA Yes it works slowly. Not sure why you would unless you want to hide what you are searching for. Which would cut down on ads if you are willing to go that route all the time. So all that being said. Who cares? Which one works for you use it.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Hey I want to take pot shots at the most used/biggest thing out there.
No, here is the part we "forget", and I believe THIS was the point of the article. If you use google Chrome, they have ACCESS to every site, and EVERY password you have, whether you saved it or not (on the basis that they process the screen/html). So, they could certainly, grab/steal/store ALL of your details (and most probably do). Waiting for a hack to come through that exposes EVERYTHING about you. But it gets worse. They have a political agenda, too. Maybe you are MILO or someone they despise. What do they know about you? Hmm, your bank, your username, your password, which IP addresses you come in from. [My bank ties my IP down, and requires special authorization to use from elsewhere], but if I use a VPN, and they know the company. THEN they just dial through that VPN, and come out the other end with full access? We have way too much trust. I remember when the biggest issue was spam. And I use 3 different browsers, including Brave. Chrome is COMFY and basically works. But I don't do my banking on it! Now imagine when you use a MFA key, using a google MFA APP. LMAO. Does that suddenly give you the creeps? Or worse, the QR code was DISPLAY by a chrome browser that recognized it was a QR code. And then knew the next 2 numbers you keyed in to authenticate the device. Oh, are we soooo trusting... [don't worry, SSL/TLS promises us that ONLY GOOGLE/CHROME/BROWSER and YOU know the details. I only trust ME in that relationship].
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I do not think there is good or bad or better or worse browsers. It is all a matter of personal taste in the end -yes, even if there are light differences in performance - so these articles are quite futile. That said, Edge is really the worst browser ever, especially combined with Bing.
Unfortunately Edge is Chrome, just reporting to a different HQ. From our own newsletter: Edge and Chrome bug generates random debug files that you can ignore[^]
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Chrome "just works" - it displays every page you throw at it, and it's "multi-device" support is excellent - you can send pages to other devices such as my phone or Surface for later. It's stable, it's not ugly, you can mute all tabs except for those on a white list, ... I've been using it for years and have no problem with it. :thumbsup:
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You should consider switching away to FireFox again. FireFox is far better and does a lot of blocking of tracking cookies and other items. I used Chrome for a long while because dev console was so great. But now FireFox has at least of as good of dev console and you get the freedom from the large company. I also quite using Google search -- duckduckgo instead. I do have an Android phone and like android devices so I've installed FireFox there too. I like to switch it up in an effort to make it so one ginormous company doesn't just take over.
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I switched from Firefox some years ago and never regretted it. And I even installed Chrome on my iPad to replace the awful Safari. From what I have seen of Edge (when MS forces me to use it) it is not that wonderful.
I bet a lot of the bad firefox you saw was actually related to Flash player. Flash player was terrible in firefox and I switched away back in 2010-11 too. Now FireFox is far better and has a great dev console. FireFox does some great things for anti-tracking built right in too. You should try it out. Also you can share your history among machines and the data doesn't get shared anywhere else. you own your data on firefox. very nice actually.
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In the old days, when you complained to web site that their pages didn't display properly, the answer was plain: "Why don't you use IE6? It works perfectly with IE6!" Nowadays, the answer is equally plain: "Why don't you use Chrome? It works perfectly with Chrome!" I've had this answer from two different web sites, and from numerous friends and colleagues. When I reply "Yeah - just like with IE6!", those old enough to remember the browser wars turn to mumbling and their face gets a darker color. (The younger ones don't have a clue.) I started using FF as an alternative to IE6. I keep on using FF as an alternative to Chrome.
I started designing websites around 1998. Back then, I designed for 2 browsers - Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator (and Firefox a few years later when it came out). What was frustrating back then is that I was a stickler for compliant HTML. Often things would work fine in Internet Explorer, but not in Navigator or Netscape. These situations usually involved some feature desired by the customer. The problem wasn't that IE was a better browser, it was almost always because Navigator and Netscape were code compliant whereas IE was more forgiving and would incorporate and allow features that used html code (or javascript) that W3C deemed non-compliant, often that were specific to only IE. My choice - either design a non-compliant site to include requested features, or talk a client out of something that their mind was already made about and that they were paying for. You can guess what decision was made each time.
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Well, in my experience, Chrome indeed sucks. But overall, I do have a different order of preference to web browsers, as for me, in order it would be 1. Firefox (and on Windows, I use a lot a fork called Waterfox, as that allows to run some older add-ons, which don't exist since they changed their API, or the newer versions aren't as capable or easily usable as the old ones 2. Opera, though they are working hard on messing up this once great browser 3. Yeah, that would be Chrome, as the rest is even more atrocious... 4. through 10.no particular browser 11. Edge, I give them a little bit of credit for at least trying to create a better browser 12. Safari, it just stinks 13. Internet Exploder. No further comment necessary. And it wouldn't show up for me at all if there weren't some applications that require that old beast, because some custom ActiceX components won't run on Edge (a lot of security camera UIs are using those) And there is all the rest...
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Thank you for the article. May I say I will only consider browsers which support Norton "Safe Search" unless there is another manner to provide the same security. In case you do not know Norton "Safe Search" informs re/ the safety of links provided by its search engine. I do not know how it is possible to utilize the web without such a benefit. Kind Regards Cheerios
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give me a break. chrome is the best browser. maybe second to firefox. chrome syncs better. firefox uses less memory. the author uses Edge, sooooooooooo - to me that means the author is insane.
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That's a really inconsistent shitpost. Ranting about Chrome being a memory hog is fine, but if you do that you need to acknowledge that reskinned Chromium browsers (ie Edge and Opera) also devour ram as if you have a few terabytes of the stuff. And then...
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Java is pre-installed (read: you don’t need java), flash crashes constantly.
... wait what!?!?!?!??! Is this rant recycled from 2010 or something? Java's been banned from Chrome since 2015 unless you're using a dumpsterfire like IEtab (in which case a) you installed it, and b) it's IE not chrome); and flash was a few weeks from being removed when that was written and had been effectively dead for several years before then.
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Chrome "just works" - it displays every page you throw at it, and it's "multi-device" support is excellent - you can send pages to other devices such as my phone or Surface for later. It's stable, it's not ugly, you can mute all tabs except for those on a white list, ... I've been using it for years and have no problem with it. :thumbsup:
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All of these points are features of Firefox too, sans the spying.
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