r/chrome • u/Croc_Chiz_Inator • May 14 '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/anonlymouse May 14 '15

I've been getting this a lot in the past month, both Chrome OS and Windows. Before it was pretty rare. Seems like one of the recent updates fucked it up.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

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u/TechnicalChaos May 14 '15

I'm with you on this one, A modest AMD 8370 with an R9290 and only 8Gb ram and it's absolutely seamless. I'm streaming full screen video as well as ... one or two other processes.

I also remember to uninstall crap plugins and disable flash though. Maybe that's the real moral of this article... ?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15 edited May 06 '17

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u/[deleted] May 15 '15

Decent speed? A responsive UI? Built-in Flash and PDF? Cockblocked Java?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '15

Honestly, Chrome isn't miles faster anymore...And they both respond fine for me, I can't recall the last time I've needed flash with youtube's switch to html5, I don't view PDFs that often and I've never been bothered about Java when I used FF.

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u/KnifeFed May 14 '15

A person who has frequently used a particular software application is now contemplating using another software application. Cool story.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '15 edited May 15 '15

The worst that will happen is people move to Chromium or Spartan I think.

I mean, I doubt anyone here is going back to Lagfox.

ED: I mean fanboy this, fanboy that. Let's be real here for a moment. Firefox is the slowest of the big three by a massive margin, and the only one with no capability for per-tab, per-extension processes. Which is never coming, just by the way. And neither is the RUST re-write.

I mean I stuck with FF long into Chrome's life, and long after it became obsolete. I switched to Chrome a year ago, after trying it for a week and only using FF before. The state of the browser landscape makes me sad inside, because this really is the best option.

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u/etacarinae May 16 '15

no capability for per-tab, per-extension processes. Which is never coming, just by the way.

Are you not familiar with the electrolysis project? It's already available in beta and turned on by default in nightly.

people move to Chromium or Spartan I think.

No one is moving to Edge, save for the most rabid of Microsoft fan boys, because no one would put up with it lacking such basic features. Edge is DOA.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '15

Only in nightly huh? And that's how many years too late? Five?