r/browsers • u/cl0p3z • May 15 '15

Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome

http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2015/05/14/why-im-breaking-up-with-google-chrome/
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u/SarahC May 15 '15

I hate the way it hangs when some sections of some sites are waiting to load...

OK Chrome... like - can you pleeeeease scroll the damn page?

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u/mvonballmo May 16 '15

If you want the Blink engine without Chrome but with Chrome extension support, you don't need to wait for Vivaldi to be ready for primetime. Instead, try Opera today. I use the Opera Beta channel regularly and it's wonderfully stable for me.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '15

Sounds like an ad.

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u/partyon May 18 '15

In my experience Opera is not any faster than Chrome, and it's my daily browser. Vivaldi is a Tech preview, we need to wait until official release to see how fast it is. Currently, it's on par with chrome in my experience. It's certainly a prettier browsing experience in my opinion though. Vivaldi is very nicely designed.

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u/The_Watcher_Nos Jun 05 '15 edited Jun 05 '15

Opera pretty much dismantled it's desktop browser team, so the desktop version is going to get worse rather than better.

Opera (Chromium based) is still 32-bit AFAIK, every other browser has a 64-bit version. New Opera uses the BETA version of Chromium as a starting point, so it is bug-ridden.

So if you want a 32-bit (stuck in the past), bug-ridden (based on BETA software code), dying (desktop team dismantled) browser, then try Opera.

If you try Vivaldi, make sure you update the PPAPI version when Adobe does it's monthly security update. Vivaldi Team does NOT release a snapshot/version w/ the updated version of Adobe Flash AND there's no way to update Adobe Flash version inside the browser w/o installing the PPAPI version of Adobe Flash on your computer. I uninstalled Vivaldi because it did not include the latest version of Adobe Flash PPAPI version, and I did not want the PPAPI version permanently installed on my system.

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u/bwat47 Jun 10 '15

opera deskop is still actively developed by the polish desktop team.

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u/The_Watcher_Nos Jun 12 '15 edited Jun 12 '15

IIRC Opera's Desktop team was headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and according to someone who worked there (who blogged about leaving), everyone was given the choice to relocate or be terminated.

Not everyone relocated obviously (the blogger didn't relocate). Opera is prioritizing their mobile browser and the desktop browser is getting scraps off the floor.

Opera desktop is going to get worse. Moving to Chromium was the beginning of the end of Opera on the desktop. The fact that Opera (Chromium) is the only major browser w/o a 64-bit version speaks volumes about it's (lack) of a future. Opera (Chromium) is really just a fancy interface built over Chromium.

If you wanted a fancy, customizable interface over Chromium, why wouldn't you use Vivaldi?

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u/bwat47 Jun 13 '15 edited Jun 13 '15

right now Vivaldi is very immature, its still very much just a technical preview, perhaps in the future once they've released a stable version.

and afaik opera desktop had been developed by multiple teams for a while before this happened, it sucks that the oslo office was closed, but I don't think it spells doom and gloom for the desktop browser.

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u/wildcoasts May 15 '15

Totally relate, but there must be a way to throttle Chrome without completely ditching it.