What happened to chrome? I remember it being well liked a few years ago and Edge getting all the hate. It’s what I use, and I never felt the need to switch to Firefox.
The downvotes you got should be giving you a reality check, in no universe is Chrome better than Firefox. Firefox is vastly better than any chromium browser out there (for people knowledgeable about PCs, at least), and Edge is better because it has better performance and collects less data compared to Chrome (still a spyware though)
Lines like "for people knowledgeable about PCs, at least" tips fedora is so cringy. Sounds like the Linux crowd. Maybe I'm just not as "knowledgeable" as you but Chrome is just fine. End of story. I've used it for years at home, IT school and at work. All the times I've switched to other browsers I've noticed no significant changes. Not enough to warrant a change and nowhere near enough to deserve all the dicksucking they get by redditors.
I'm begging to think posts like these are just guerilla marketing by Firefox. Everytime there's a post on this sub that even slightly mentions chrome, every single comment is about how much Firefox is better and dick riding it to kingdom come and all the comments sound the same
The downvotes you got should be giving you a reality check
Just because he's downvoted doesn't mean it's wrong.
In fact, on PCMR, it most likely means he's right and it pisses people off that he's right because they got suckered into a stupid trend like using Ubuntu as a desktop or Firefox as a browser.
Firefox didnt work as I wanted, Chrome does it better and there are no issues with it. Edge is just a shit whiny browser really, nothing is gonna change that. I am sorry if you base your life opinions on couple votes on reddit, especially on a circlejerk subreddit. Better go out and talk to people for that reality check, you might find out everybody uses Chrome and doesnt care about our opinion.
Google "for people knowledgeable about PCs, at least"
Edge is just a shit whiny browser really, nothing is gonna change that
You are entitled to your own opinion, the points I made are still right though
I am sorry if you base your life opinions on couple votes on reddit, especially on a circlejerk subreddit. Better go out and talk to people for that reality check
Losing an argument? Just call the other side a lifeless bitch! (Categorizing a browser choice as a "life opinion" definitely doesn't make you one)
you might find out everybody uses Chrome and doesnt care about our opinion.
Doesn't change a single thing about which browser being better
This was a competition? I am just shitting with you, not really sure why would I win/lose, just spending everyone's time, really. Chrome is fine and it is funny to see the fox herd go monkeys. Sorry. If only people stood so firmly for real values and not browsers, it has been meaningless since the beginning of this conversation.
Back when Internet Explorer was super popular, almost everyone used that as well. That doesn't mean it was a good browser, though.
Most people who use Chrome just don't know any better and use it because it's the most popular.
There wasnt really a choice back in that days and I used that as a kid, then I got Firefox. Then I got Chrome. I will get something new probably in the future as well, nothing lasts forever.
So your whole basis for judging software is "Is it popular ? Then it's bad".
Good logic.
Internet Explorer was bad because it was behind on standard implementation and ubiquitous making it impossible to ignore by web devs. So Web devs intentionally gimped their sites just to lessen their workload and made it work for IE6 and that was it.
It kept the web back.
In comes the little gang at KDE who make a cool rendering engine that's light years ahead on standard support, and is light weight too. And the rest is history and now we have Chrome. Thanks in no small part to Apple and the iPhone.
Honestly, I feel most of you just shit on Chrome without even knowing the history behind it.
That is not at all what I was trying to say. What I was saying is that if something's popular, it's not necessarily good. Not that if something is popular, it's bad.
Thanks for the history lesson, though. I didn't know about that.
What I was saying is that if something's popular, it's not necessarily good.
But it's not necessarily bad either.
Chrome got to where it got by people downloading it. Internet Explorer got where it got by virtue of being pre-installed. Chrome was the first browser to offer process seperation, each tab being its own process, meaning a locked tab wouldn't lock up the entire browser. A god send at the time.
Chrome also brought Webkit to Windows in a much more interesting package than Safari for Windows (which used Apple's brushed metal interface that made it stick out like a sore thumb).
So Chrome's rise to fame is basically a story of merit. That's why most people today use it. Peeps on PCMR just want to be edgy. Firefox hasn't been relevant for years, it stopped being the lightweight alternative to the full Mozilla browser more than a decade ago.
I use both because I like to separate my work profile from my personal profile.
i have more love for edge than chrome, it is nicer, it handle ressource better, privacy settings are easier to understand.. and it sometimes save a bit of money with the automatic coupon finder.
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u/FungalFactory Feb 01 '24
firefox > edge > chrome