Ten Years of Google Chrome (And Why I Cannot Quit) - Comments Page 2

Have Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, and Edge installed on most of our laptops. Use Chrome as the workhorse, but also really happy with the VPN in Opera for those days on the road when I'm using an open wi-fi service (hotel, cafe, library, etc.). The Opera VPN is easy to turn on and off instantly, and I can select the server (US, Canada, Europe, etc) as needed.

I'm an Opera fan from way back. Started using it in the late Nineties when it was the only browser with tab browsing. Have never had any problems with it and so have never had a reason to go looking for greener grass.
I have noticed that many programs, during installation, try to force Chrome onto you if you don't watch out for the pre-ticked box. I DON'T like that practise. It could explain in part why Chrome is so "popular".
Many thanks for the information over the years.

Maybe Chrome is a nano second faster than FF (honestly, would it really matter?) or maybe I'm just slowing down in my years and don't give a hoot.

Whichever it may be I will never, under any circumstance, trust Google.

If you like Chrome, you may love a Chromebook. (I do.) But I actually like the new Firefox very much. I do have so many add-ons installed for security, that I need to use Chrome on occasion to get certain websites to work properly.(or temporarily use safe mode in Firefox)

Bob
I'm a retired teacher with an INSATIABLE interest in things.Your clarity and natural ability to communicate is commendable...and so I do.
Thanks.
David komarnicki

On Firefox, I have zoom in/out buttons in the menu. When I close all tabs, Firefox does not exit. Firefox's window has a green frame; I can see where its edges are. Maybe I can get those things on Chrome, but why bother?

I stopped using Google anything on the day they became evil.

I must be older than the rest of you. My first browser was Netscape. And as I recall (yes, I was building web pages back then also), the only text color available was black. And I don't recall that I had the option to change fonts, although the option to specify bold type came in fairly early. Images? Don't be silly. What did you need images for?

My default browser is Chrome, which I use about 90% of the time. But once in awhile Chrome doesn't seem to work properly with a particular web site. I don't know exactly why, and it isn't worth my time to figure out what's wrong, so I just switch to a different browser (either Opera or Pale Moon or Internet Explorer or Vivaldi or Avast, in that approximate order, but never Firefox). At least one of the others will not have the problem, so I'm satisfied.

I also depend upon my Google email account, and my Google Voice account, and Google Calendar, and Google Maps, etc. I just wish Google hadn't lost its way and become evil.

I used FF happily for years. A couple of years back, my computer became slower than I. (70 years will do it.) I canned FF and Avast Premium and now things are better. (If my computer wasn't a tenth of my age, I might still be using FF and Avast. I began using Opera when I ditched FF. I has done and is doing fine for me.

I switched from Firefox to Chrome several years ago (can't remember precisely why), but switched back to Firefox last year. Chrome had become such a memory and CPU hog that it slowed my several-year-old desktop to a crawl. The new Firefox Quantum is super fast and easy on resources. I detested some things about Chrome anyway, especially the way it handled bookmarks. Like it not showing creation and last-used dates, and making me right-click to make any edits.

I DESPISE EVERYTHING ALPHABET.

Years ago I used IE but once I started with Chrome which was a long time ago. I never went back to IE. Chrome is faster and I have had no crashes.
I stick with a Chromebook except for a old laptop running Windows7 that I used for a few things that won't load onto a chromebook.

I used FF since started or soon after and tried Chrome but went back to FF Hate Quantum - and its got too left of center wont allow my choice of programs etc. So in spite of google spies using Chrome as nagged by FF old version and its unsafe they say. See others close to my age here - I'm 80 next week and find many contemporaries dont do computers but I had MOSDOS days via phone lines 1970's first Desk top was Radio Shack.
Bob you will notice my emails ends in .com although live in Australia. Cause no end of problems invalid etc as that is usually USA - use Gmail instead or Live - and like you -= not had any lousy "things" due to Chrome and Google.
And yes we do have to look close when downloading for hat tick or else we get a PUP. Not the wet nose sort which I would welcome as just got a new G.Shepherd close to 2 and had a bit of a rough time - but coming good now and meat on his bones. Rescue dogs need homes and do repay you with love.
Like Bob on computers ha ha....

It all depends on how you use your computer. If you are in IT, quite likely you are writing applications which use memory. If you should start Chrome you might, and I say might, find other applications lagging. If you are an internet surfer, Chrome is great because of the speed but id you are a person doing multiple stuff on the computer you will see some difference in the other applications. Bob... what about multi core like the Quad core. Does each application up to four use a different core? if yes then Chrome would use on core and the other applications use the others. That is until you start another application.

In Mac OS X Safari is much more pleasant to my eyes (text and images). I don't see much difference in speed with Chrome.

However, I do use chrome extensively for the searches, because it seems to do it better.

So for me Safari is for the reading and known pages. Chrome is for search and, yes it is slightly more elaborated and convenient compared to Safari.

In Mac OS X Safari is much more pleasant to my eyes (text and images). I don't see much difference in speed with Chrome.

However, I do use chrome extensively for the searches, because it seems to do it better.

So for me Safari is for the reading and known pages. Chrome is for search and, yes it is slightly more elaborated and convenient compared to Safari.

edge works fine for my requirements.

I prefer Firefox over Chrome for its bookmark setup, its storage of passwords, and its lack of popup ads.

I have, and occasionally use, FireFox, Edge, and I.E. on this Windoze 10 machine. But Chrome is my favorite. I started using Gmail while it was still in beta, using POP access to retrieve my Yahoo mail. I switched from FireFox to Chrome as soon as it became available. Yes, it sometimes stresses memory, and I intend to add more RAM to this "cheap" computer that I got at Frys a few months ago, but Chrome gives me almost everything I want. I use Brave to view YouTube videos in order to bypass ads, everything else is Chrome.