• StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      6 天前

      Screaming that on lemmy is like running into a church and screaming about the “Wiles of satan”

      You are literally preaching to the choir

    • Art3mis@lemmy.world
      7·
      6 天前

      There is degoogled chromium for pcs. I dont mean brave. I mean literally “degoogled chromium”

      i use it for when certain web apps refuse to work on firefox or librewolf

    • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      1·
      6 天前

      I love Steam’s built in browser(its useful) and Gmod’s built in browser though :(
      actually lets narrow down the problem with Non-Chromium, Almost all of them arent designed for embedding into apps or isnt ready for production/does not have all web features.

  • Syndication@lemmy.today
    65·
    6 天前

    Lol who is even using chrome still?

    Edit: Yes guys I know, I am aware of the borderline monopoly Google has had on the browser space. My question should have been: Who is tech savvy and is using Google Chrome voluntarily?

    I bet those numbers are inflated by work and school computers forcing it down your throat.

    • Doug@piefed.socialEnglish
      29·
      7 天前

      They install it on my work laptop without my saying so. I uninstall it every time, and until they explicitly ask me to use it, I’m sticking with Firefox.

      • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip
        3·
        6 天前

        Ayy what’s up twin.

        “Oh our portals are only certified for Chrome. Firefox won’t work.”

        I beg to differ.

        Chrome’s last genuine use died Aug 2024 when Puppeteer started supporting Firefox.

    • Piranha Phish@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 天前

      Unfortunately I am. I really really don’t want to be but somehow Firefox has turned into a buggy mess. Maybe it’s just me but I have so many issues with it.

      Dragging into a browser window doesn’t work half the time. Trying to drag a tab nearly always bugs out the window resulting in no mouse clicks for tabs or address bar. Something screws up sometimes causing browser to flip to a random tab every time I switch back to a window, somehow related to pressing CTRL+ something. Sometimes the mouse cursor in a textbox/textarea screws up where it’s not positioned where I’m typing, and I’ve even seen it go backwards while I type.

      I have experienced these things often, albeit most of them only after having multiple windows open with many tabs. And they’re not isolated to just one installation on one computer.

      I’m just baffled how there can be so many consistent issues though. So much so that I can’t justify using it over Chromium any longer, even with all of the issues with Chromium.

      I’ve been using Firefox since the beginning, and I’m an adamant supporter of them. I really hope they get these things sorted out.

    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      6 天前

      People who are forced to use it because web developers have abandoned non chrome based browsers in their testing and validation.

  • Schwim Dandy@piefed.zipEnglish
    34·
    7 天前

    The people willingly using a Google browser get what they get. This is a shining example of personal accountability.

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
    24·
    6 天前

    Why the fuck is anyone still using chrome? Or windows for that matter. If it’s a work computer, whatever, I get it, but get that shit off of your personal devices.

  • VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.worksM
    17·
    6 天前

    Awe dang. I have a theory that the more we push away their data centers they will recoup it one cpu\gpu at a time at the user-end. This is testing that feasibility.

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    5·
    6 天前

    i never used Chrome(only Chromium) in years, i heard about this and its insane.

  • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 天前

    Let’s say I tried to show this to my brother in an attempt to make the boy degoogle and he went “Nah, I’m not a gigabite hoarder, they can have the 4 gigas.”

    • ttyybb@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 天前

      Reminds me of when my brother was setting up anti-virus for a friend, I don’t remember if it was the program or one of the folders to virus.bad

  • Peereboominc@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    7 天前

    If not chrome, what is a good browser to use nowadays? I like Firefox but the last year I keep bumping in to websites that don’t work so we’ll on Firefox. Mostly web apps. So then what is left?

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      11·
      7 天前

      I stay away from sites and services that don’t work well on Firefox. Firefox complies with open web standards, if a site doesn’t run well on Firefox it implies that the operator is doing something fucky that you’d probably not be OK with.

      • FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        6 天前

        This. I’ve never run into problems on Firefox with even the most sketchy seeming domains.

        Even ChatGPT and every anime piracy site I’ve visited runs fine. What’s sketchier than those? lol

    • paul@lemmy.orgEnglish
      7·
      7 天前

      Vivaldi is a productivity dream. Unfortunately it’s built on chromium so it’s not a complete break but it absolutely leaves every other browser in the dust in terms of how good it is. One of its best features is the ability to limit how much ram and CPU the browser as a whole uses or just certain sites. The amount of features it has is insane. Page tiling is my favourite one

      • codapine@lemmy.zip
        1·
        6 天前

        +1 for Vivaldi. I keep expecting to hear that I’ve became out of the loop and it’s turned into Brave without my knowing. It’s a great concern. But so far, so excellent!

      • Soapbox@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        6 天前

        I use Zen as my primary browser. Vivaldi is my chromium backup for when something isn’t playing nice with Firefox, and for installing PWAs. Vivaldi is great. I used it for years before Zen came along.

      • linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        6 天前

        Limiting resources sounds cool. I wish I could at least determine why Firefox sometimes goes out of control eating everything. Setting a resource limit per page would be good too. Sometimes my whole computer is ground to a halt, but closing a single tab fixes it. Often not a page that is obviously doing much. Certain ecommerce sites are frequent culprits. Doing something in the background.

        Firefox can tile two pages now: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/split-view/

    • jtrek@startrek.website
      5·
      6 天前

      Firefox has been fine. I’ve thought about switching to one of the cooler forks but I haven’t gotten off my ass yet.

      • Zidane@lemmy.ca
        2·
        6 天前

        This is your push, DO IT!

        Librewolf and Waterfox have been running just fine for me

        • jtrek@startrek.website
          1·
          6 天前

          Do you use either of them on android? The syncing between android and desktop is nice in vanilla Firefox

          • Zidane@lemmy.ca
            1·
            6 天前

            That’s the one thing I’m still using stock Firefox with. I have a few hundred if not a thousand tabs open on mobile so haven’t felt too strong an urge to switch just yet lol

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      7 天前

      Ever tried uploading an 8GB file to Copyparty on Firefox for Android? It just hangs (but so does the unofficial app). I needed to ask my sister to use Chrome :(

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 天前

    But don’t worry, the model isn’t used for any browser features users actually use, so it’s just Google wasting petabytes of bandwidth to service a fraction of a percent of its userbase.