Who uses Chrome?

[Hawkmoon]

If you do, you might want to rethink that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/08/28/stop-using-google-chrome-on-windows-10-android-and-apple-iphones-ipads-and-macs/

Bottom line -- Chrome isn't secure, and it lags behind ... well,, everybody else in protections against tracking.

[zxcvbob]

I use it on my work PC, and on my chromebook obviously.  On my home PC I use Edge now and sometimes Brave, and don't even have Chrome installed.

[WLJ]

I use it on my work PC, and on my chromebook obviously.  On my home PC I use Edge now and sometimes Brave, and don't even have Chrome installed.

Both Edge and Brave are chromium based.

Chromium is a free and open-source codebase for a web browser, principally developed and maintained by Google. Google uses the code to make its Chrome web browser, which has additional features. The Chromium codebase is widely used. Microsoft Edge, Opera, and many other browsers are based on the code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)

[Hawkmoon]

Both Edge and Brave are chromium based.

So is the new Firefox, but Mozilla offers far better tracking protections than Google's Chrome browser.

The issue isn't the underlying Chromium browser engine, the issue is Google's implementation of it.

[Brad Johnson]

I rotate through Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, mostly because campus standards are on a flavor-of-the-month basis and there's no telling what will or won't work with a particular campus site.

Brad

[Hawkmoon]

I rotate through Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, mostly because campus standards are on a flavor-of-the-month basis and there's no telling what will or won't work with a particular campus site.

So much for there being "standards" that all web sites and browsers should adhere to.

[Blakenzy]

As far as google is concerned, tracking is a feature.

[lee n. field]

If you do, you might want to rethink that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/08/28/stop-using-google-chrome-on-windows-10-android-and-apple-iphones-ipads-and-macs/

Bottom line -- Chrome isn't secure, and it lags behind ... well,, everybody else in protections against tracking.

Not unless I can't avoid it.  Firefox or Brave.

[Hawkmoon]

As far as google is concerned, tracking is a feature.

Therein lies the problem.

[230RN]

Installed it (recommended by my health insurance plan, along with Edge and Firefox) and it just seemed like everything I did had some connection / enhancement related to Chrome, with some popups impossible to get rid of without being forced to enjoy that enhancement.

I'm sure there were elegant solutions to these problems, but I finally said pisonit and uninstalled it. I don't have time or inclination to coitus around with crap.

I started using nice simple Brave, and it works even with my health insurance plan's arrogant insistence on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.  I usually start browsing with IE11 because I still like its skin and when I get a "not supported" message, I xfer the URL to Brave.

I swan, this all looks so similar to the old "Price Fixing" of yarn ago, except it's "Browser Fixing." Or like three of the North Side gangs getting together to squeeze out all the South Side gangs. Then two of the North Side gangs get together to squeeze out the third.  Then... MS buys the winner of that struggle. :roffle:

Business is business, after all.

Terry, 230RN

[K Frame]

So much for there being "standards" that all web sites and browsers should adhere to.

There are. But any more that's absolutely baseline basic crap. I use a series of customer-based tools here at the office that work best with Firefox or Chrome; IE and Edge are not supported. But I still use Explorer the one tool because it still works and I find it to be a lot easier to deal with than our version of Firefox, which is on a sequestered network and, because of that, is constantly popping up messages such as

"I CAN'T CONNECT TO UPDATE! UPDATE ME! I'M OUT OF DATE! YOU'LL DIE IF YOU DON'T UPDATE ME RIGHT NOW!!!"

interspersed with

"I'M NOT YOUR DEFAULT BROWSER! DON'T YOU LOVE ME? WHY WON'T YOU MAKE ME YOUR DEFAULT? JUST CLICK HERE TO SHOW ME HOW MUCH YOU LOVE ME! CLICK, YOU *expletive deleted*ing PRICK!"

Maybe not that bad, but holy hell it's annoying.

[230RN]

K Frame said, "But I still use Explorer the one tool because it still works and I find it to be a lot easier to deal with than our version of Firefox"

Holy cow.  I'm not the only one!  Let's form a support group!

Terry

[HeroHog]

I've pretty much "given up" in the great Browser Wars of the 2020s.
My laptop has on it, in order of usage: Brave, Chrome, FireFox, and (SPIT!) MS Edge. I use Thunderbird for ALL my emailing needs. Text is a mix of FacistBook Messenger and MS "Your Phone".
My Android phone (Moto z4) uses Brave and Chrome browsers and Google Gmail for what little email I ever do on it. FacistBook Messenger handles my FB and SMS messaging duties.

Brave and Firefox are my favorite browsers. I liked Firefox the best but had performance issues with it.