It’s time to ditch Chrome

[hermosabeach]

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-chrome-browser-data

[bugsy714]

So you think they are just collecting your data from chrome lol I am sure all of these companies are very unethical in their mining of data


Dictated but not read, voice typing plus bad eyes equals typos

[hermosabeach]

I know Microsoft does the same. If you type it into explorer or edge- they have it

[denpython]

Brave is one decent clean browser!
Screw Firefox,chrome,microsoft etc

[HecklerNKoch]

Brave is one decent clean browser!
Screw Firefox,chrome,microsoft etc

With FireFox, if you know what you are doing, you can configure it to your most granular specifications; things you would never consider.


I can send a TCP-Reset and anaylze the TCP-Stack for everything coming my way. Things unheard of of for any other browser except the {fox} derivatives.


With Brave, you are merely leasing your time-spent to them.

[C.G.]

Way ahead of you - never used Chrome.

[HecklerNKoch]

Way ahead of you - never used Chrome.

Exactly.


There's no phone-home like Chrome.

[Robotron2k84]

Lynx (links) and curl. Why do you need a graphical clicky internet when the majority of the images served are ads?

Browsh for everything else.

[the86d]

IE is known for this:


Opera was never adopted by me, and Safari hasn't been updated for the PC in YEARS...

I stopped using Chrome when "personal NSFW links" were "auto-synced" to my work computer I used at home via Gmail account login YEARS ago, but I only used it during a short time where Firefox had a couple of bad versions, consecutively. Incognito windows even save data and (Google) logins across all Chrome instances, so it isn't incognito in anyway I can tell, as passwords in incognito are apparently still saved... and maybe other stuff too, like Gmail accounts and cookies.

I've been a Firefox user since early beta, and although they dropped a couple of bad apples when flash was on it's way out, it has been the choice for almost all in the know for many reasons, especially since Private Windows/tab don't seem to remember crap, so as far as I can tell, completely Private from everything else, even future private tabs/windows forget the last private session completely (unless you still have a private window[Windows]/tab[Android] open, but once closed all used is lost, AFAIK).

IceFox, Iceweasel, are derivatives of Firefox for Linux OSs and Brave is also a derivatives I use on my tablet, after Firefox for Android went all inefficient on their tab-usage, w/no more immediate tab-switching at the ready (not it takes WAY longer to switch tabs...

Brave's first few versions were horribly slow on all PCs I tried it on, and Android devices too, but it has gotten to about as responsive as Firefox on everything I've tried it on recently.

[ibanezfoo]

We have to use it at work as one of our cloud fabrication programs works best in Chrome. Tried Edge, Firefox, etc and while they work ok they struggle with the Autodesk Forge viewer with bigger models. Work fine for small stuff but load up a 1 gig + building model and they start crawling. Chrome has some extra stuff for GPUs I guess. Although a lot of the same settings are in Edge, they don't seem to work the same way. All our fab machines are on a locked down vlan though so Chrome can't report back anything. We see it in the logs, and man does it try....

[Cowboy T]

For those who remember when Web site creators were writing only for Internet Exploder, it seems those bad ol' days are back. I've seen where some Web site creators are writing for, and testing with, only Google Chrome. That is really bad news. On those few occasions when support folks have told me, "try it with Google Chrome", I simply don't bother to visit that Web site anymore.

I will continue to stick with Firefox + NoScript. I *might* sometimes use Chromium (not Chrome, but Chromium) + NoScript for testing, but my primary browser is Firefox and will remain so for at least the near future.

[sbo80]

my employer is recently trying to get Chrome off of company-owned computers and getting everyone to stop using it. We have some issues as some applications we have that run in browsers seem to only work in Chrome unfortunately, but our IT dept is working on it. Bottom line, is a major defense contractor IT dept says Chrome is no good.

[Robotron2k84]

my employer is recently trying to get Chrome off of company-owned computers and getting everyone to stop using it. We have some issues as some applications we have that run in browsers seem to only work in Chrome unfortunately, but our IT dept is working on it. Bottom line, is a major defense contractor IT dept says Chrome is no good.

Hopefully they will find something other than edge to replace it. That scenario is exactly how IE6 was elevated to the de facto browser. Because it was included in Windows, which was occasionally certified for Military use and given away practically (pirated) free to edu institutions, it was just accepted as “free” to the end-user and IT Dept. However, getting rid of it ended-up costing millions in lost-productivity, a hallmark of MS infection-ware.

That’s how we got a decade of browser hacks and quirks, and having to keep IE6 around for a decade after its death, due to intranet code that wouldn’t work with any other browser.

One of the Firefox derivatives is probably best. FF itself seems to be hit or miss and the Mozilla Foundation’s politics are all hardcore left-wing nonsense.

[Cowboy T]

my employer is recently trying to get Chrome off of company-owned computers and getting everyone to stop using it. We have some issues as some applications we have that run in browsers seem to only work in Chrome unfortunately, but our IT dept is working on it. Bottom line, is a major defense contractor IT dept says Chrome is no good.

Yep, that's the danger I was thinking about.

Perhaps Chromium might be a good substitute for Chrome for those specific applications. But yeah, Firefox is my choice whenever possible.

[nine mil thrill]

after reading this .....i did install Brave. i really like it