Google Chrome, Ungoogled? - Comments Page 1

Yet I find it would be most annoying not to have adBlock on my browser. I understand advertising pays for sites maintenance, but too often they are so obtrusive as to make reading the main content quite awkward.

Take a look a a Chrome clone browser called Iron Browser. It does all the stuff above plus all extensions and such from The Store are available. It does also load and browse faster than Chrome.

So, you put your faith in Google to protect you? Sort of like trusting the fox to guard the hens or believing the line, "We are from the government and are here to help". Do you really think Google would, or has not, given your info over to governmental entities? If so, I have some land in NJ that you may want to buy.

Getting big business and government out of the things that I do is always worth exploring.
Thanks.

It's probably too late. I'm sure that anyone who might care, including our illustrious gubmint, already knows my feelings about hussein and hellery (and the evil triumvirate that would be the billary-hussein admin if it's elected). There, I said it again, and it was probably recorded again for posterity sake. Oh, well. We do thank you, Bob for all the great words of wisdom and information you give all of U.S.! As long as the PTB (Powers That Be) allow it, you will be an anxiously looked forward to part of our days!!

Internet Explorer puked because of Microsoft Edge. It's very invasive thanks to Cortana. I find it difficult to get around in. I have "always" used IE since the days of Netscape, but now I use Google and go straight to Yahoo when I play on the 'puter.

"...appears to be an experimental project created by a student, for use by himself and friends." So basically it's light years from becoming a stable, safe and reliable piece of software.
Save yourself a load of hassle and use Opera.

I have used Chromium along with Firefox for many years on my desktop (after an article in PCMag and also recommended by CNET} (I hated IE) I have had no problems. Was just beginning to place on my new laptop.

I have used FF for years, but the thrill is gone. However, the antipathy towards IE remains strong. Chrome, at least on my old computer running Win10Home, is an incredible resource hog. But, Hey! It takes a LOOONG time to load.

I look forward to trying this one, or maybe the Avenger model. Or tune in to Opera.

Thanx to all!

Chromium is fast! Have only spent 30 minutes with it but it looks good and works well. I had to import my Chrome bookmarks into Safari and then into Chromium since I could not find a way to export them rom Chrome to a file to be imported into Chromium. Now that I have that done I can go to all my favourite sites and put Chromium to the test.

I have used Epic Privacy Browser, also based on chromium for some time and love it! Importing my favorites from IE was simple. Epic strips all ads and trackers from any page I visit automatically. It is supported and updated regularly and best of all it is FREE! So if you want to experiment,give it a try.

I still use Firefox

Another alternative based on Chromium is the Slimjet browser. Many additional features and options have been added in Slimjet to make it more powerful, intelligent and customizable than Chrome. In addition to that, Slimjet DOES NOT send any usage statistics back to Google's server like Google Chrome.

Hi Bob:

Have you tried Opera as an alternative to Google’s Chrome? I started using it recently and really like it. Apparently the "new Opera for computers" is partly based on code from the Chromium open-source browser project! I was not aware that Chrome had an open-source flavor until now and that Opera was involved with it. Perhaps you might devote a future article to this, since many of us are looking to avoid Google's invasive internet behavior!

Speaking of no-plug-ins, I've been using Brave as my default browser for the last couple of months. It's based on Electron - which is based on Chromium.
So far, everything I need is built in - no tracking, ad blocking, tab preview, cross platform, and it's very fast. So far, it's a keeper.

For those of us using outdated systems, and not having the funds to shell out for new systems....

Opera version 36.0.2130.80 is still supporting Vista and XP. (unlike Google!)

You can still use their older browser which is still better than any Chrome browser for downloading stuff and not losing partial downloads. (resume download is excellent in Opera Version 12.18)

I run both Opera versions side by side.

Thanks Bob. Dislike Chrome here. Only found it useful to access Play store games and apps. Just ditched it several times. Opera. Now that is a behaved browser. Use it to stream and download. Always disliked IE. And Firefox may soon head for the trashcan with me. 3 updates ago it set all options to default. Like a fool I hadn't saved my speed dial addresses. And FF's defaults set it to auto-update which trashes all my settings 3 updates later. Either I search for a solution or trash FF if it continues to do this. Emailed FF support twice, got no answer. Also had made a small donation in the past to help continuing development. Not going to happen again. FF is not playing nice.

Have used both IE and FF for many years with no issues. I also use FF and Opera on some of my olde r workhorse XP machines. No complaints (ymmv)

Surprised no mention of Vivaldi here, not even in comments. Cross between Opera and Chromium. Love it!

Testing browsers is a bit of a compulsion of mine. Iron Browser is the best of the Chrome style browsers: fast, secure, allows addons. Just add uBlock Origin and visit ad filled streaming sites with minimal popups. Add WEB RTC and use CyberGhost free VPN. Thats all you need. Fast and anonymous for free!!!