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I really, really don’t understand why people use Chrome, or have been using it in the past
I used it for years and just recently switched to Firefox. I was just comfortable using it, and knew how to use the dev tools. I had my extensions set up how I liked. I’m still missing a few things on Firefox but fuck chrome.
It was faster than Firefox and more accurate than Internet Explorer.
That was a decade ago. Since id say Firefox and Chrome are the same speed and Edge is just branded Chrome.
Chrome used to be new and exciting when Google was still a “do no evil” hip tech company doing neat shit like Google Earth and stuff.
Because Firefox crashes my OS, for some odd reason.
Unless it’s a RAM filling issue, because you would have too little RAM, and even then, the entire OS crashing and not just Firefox would be very unlikely, I don’t see any reason for it to crash your entire OS. Regardless, there are Firefox forks that use much much less RAM. You’re using Windows, Mac or Linux first? Try to uninstall, clean everything and reinstall with a new profile, it may work, who knows. If not, then it has to be your OS.
I don’t think it’s a RAM issue, unless Firefox eats 16GB of RAM. I mainly use Pop!_OS, a *nix distro, so maybe I messed up some package install that conflicts with Firefox in some way, but I haven’t figured out which one.
Pop!OS is a pretty stable distro, so there shouldn’t be any dependencies problem: you usually have that on arch or arch based distros, even if it’s quite rare. Have you ever uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled it but without some of its dependencies? Or ignored a package it asked you to install with it afterwards? If not, maybe it’s just an update that went wrong, like the PC shut down during an update or something. So update your system, uninstall firefox and reinstall. Your data stored in your home directory (in .mozilla, a hidden folder) like your history, extensions, opened tabs, should be conserved, even if you use apt purge.
It’s really easy to forget that back in the day (by which I mean what, 2010? Idk) chrome was super speedy and very cool with cool fast looking angular tabs and Google was a nice new cool internet company who’s moto was don’t be evil and the alternative was fucking internet explorer which was a cinder block in a blue shirt or Firefox which had a cool logo but was rather slow and the joke was that internet explorer’s whole purpose was to download chrome and I guess what I’m saying is that Google has lived long enough to see itself become the villain, or at least Comcast which is pretty much the same thing and tbh the only other time I can think of that something like this has actually happened is in 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table
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Because it’s the most popular browser
So it’s the most popular browser because it’s the most popular browser. Got it.
I’ll torrent YT videos before I watch ads.
Those greedy bastards push people to watch ads like they expect their companies’ income will grow infinitely
Both YouTube and Chrome are bloatwares in my Samsung smartphone. I happily use NewPipe!
Seriously just use Firefox for your browser and Revanced on mobile for youtube
I WON’T use FF and I DON’T use youtube. Like, at all.
Legit curious why you won’t use Firefox. As a longtime FF user I’m well aware that Mozilla has made plenty of stupid decisions, but how does that make Google a better choice?
To me, Mozilla and Google are the same shit. I hate them both. Mozilla is just smaller, but much more hypocritical. They haven’t shipped anything of value since years. So, I’ll put my small grain of sand to make them disappear not only refusing to use FF (after having been using a d advocating for it from 2002 to 2021) but also actively discouraging people from using it. Every FF user lost is a nail in the coffin of Mozilla and its stupid community and that’s a good thing.
I’m not interested in engaging in a discussion on my personal choices, so I won’t reply further. Bye.
I hate google but can you stop posting the same shitty memes in different formats
Nice try google employee!
my man literally the first four posts I see are just complaining about google adblock, and I keep seeing it over time yes we get it you don’t like ads and google is adding adblock. move to firefox/ublock (or no ublock if you want to support the content creators) and let it go imo, there aren’t even that many ads on youtube, I barely notice them normally cuz theres only one every 3 videos or so and it’s like 5 seconds long for a 20 min video (if there are more ads inside a video I’m pretty sure that usually means the creator put them there, not youtube)
Mainstream media promotes Chrome everywhere possible. The last bastion of promoting Firefox is FOSS community platforms. The fuck do you expect, us to stay quiet and “let it go”?
Not what I’m saying I hate chrome too, I just get tired of seeing essentially the same post over and over
I’d rather drink a verification can and do a little dance.
My future browser will be a terminal prompt
You can use Lynx. Here is the google homepage:
Browsh is pretty cool for a text-based browser.
Nice. but Unfortunately WEI will detect the header of the request and block site access even with a terminal browser. The end is near.
Spoof the header?
WEI will request a authentication token that will be provided by a third part software like Play Store in Android to certificate that your request is made by you a human and not by a bot so technically spoof the header agent will not be effective. Dark times awaits us my friend. Other problem is how deep embedded in the system this trust agent that provides these tokens will be. It may be embedded in kernel like Easy Anti Cheat for example and this will make the things even worse because they can classify many devices like " not approved " just by not meet software or hardware requirements
Compile a kernel?
It’s no so simple, man. The vast majority of users don’t have the skills to do this and I think even if you compile the kernel of your personalized system it will not circumvent WEI and it will brake some functionality somehow
Develop an API which spoofs authorization authentication tokens? Like man in the middle?
