Ten Years of Google Chrome (And Why I Cannot Quit) - Comments Page 3

It's funny, I never knew about the shft+esc but when I did that while reading this in Chrome, I saw an unspecified - using about 50% of my CPU. I closed the process and all the ads went away :-)

I'm having problems with the new Chrome, specifically random freezes. Sometimes everything goes back to normal in 10-15 seconds. Sometimes the page goes blank and reloading the page doesn't work. This occurs with as few as 3 tabs open.

Until the new Chrome is fixed, I'll be alternating between Firefox and Opera. Both have their problems, though.

I HATE Chrome with a purple-dyed passion.

Unfortunately, I didn't discover how much until I broke up with it in May and installed Firefox. I had always been unhappy with Chrome's monopolizing my laptop's resources, even after I doubled the memory. I was blindly content to accept that I would have to adapt to what Chrome thought I should have, cruelly asking my opinion and then ignoring it, randomly and without warning taking things away or changing them in the middle of the night, pretending that it was for my own good. The final straw for me, though, was when they revamped the bookmarks and took away the option to keep the old interface. A small thing, perhaps, in the greater scheme of things, but it was important to me.

So I installed Firefox and found love. Oh. My. FSM! Freedom!!!!! It took me an hour or two over several days -- first tentatively and then joyously, like a kid on xmas morning -- to customize it to look and function the way I wanted and needed it to, and I'm still discovering new things to love. Reader view right there on the address bar! Take a screenshot, no add-on or 3rd party software required! Tree-style tabs, where have you been all my life?

I have no need or desire to link or sync any devices, although Firefox allows for this should I change my mind. But it doesn't constantly demand it like Chrome and Google do. Firefox doesn't stalk me and demand to know where I am and what I'm doing. It doesn't constantly try to get me to buy something I don't want or need.

Firefox makes it so much easier to do what I need to do while accepting me for who I am and letting me be me.

Chrome has been my choice for many many years!! I love it only now since the new upgrade, my computer and laptop is ruined!! Cannot use my video cards anymore and that is very upsetting and depressing!!

Got it Bob...A Chrome champion since it appeared , and have never been let do2n in any ways near what any of the others you mention have let me down, and totally agree with your words on its "memory hog" habits...

I remember well the days of only IE and Netscape, as well as not having 10 million programs to make 'professional looking websites'. I was glad to see Chrome come along and have been using it ever since for 90 percent of my browsing. Unfortunately I have to have many browsers because not all of them render the same way today and I don’t like surprises when a customer takes a first look at their new website but if I could only have one browser it would be Chrome hands down. Some of the others have a few nice features I would like to see in Chrome sometime but there are not enough of the nice features to cause me to scrap Chrome at the present.

Can one have both IE & Chrome as brousers on a computer & just select one or the other to use?

Billie, yea you can do that and more.

I daily have Firefox, Chrome and Opera all running at the same time, with edge popping up when required (not often). They all work fine and the only crashes I get can usually be attributed to Flash Player, or badly crafted ads using it.

More generally, I think Opera is my favourite, but don't ask me why! Its built-in ad blocker is a big bonus, but ironically it would get in the way of a bunch of 'free to play' games.