Re: Goodbye Firefox, Hello Chrome? (or Opera?)
Originally Posted by
drawkcab
Firefox has been junk lately. On my windows partitions, the last FF update means that I have no navigation bar. On my Linux partitions FF crashes when I open anything requiring flash, sometimes taking the desktop with it if I don't force quit.
I generally favor FF because of the extensions that are available but I wonder if the pressure to keep pace with Chrome is counter productive in the sense that they are pushing out updates and new versions that are incredibly unstable.
So it's on to Chrome for the moment. Though not as customizable, Chrome is snappier and functions better than FF in a number of ways. Its extensions are coming along I suppose.
But really, what worries me about Chrome is privacy.
At the coffee shop this morning I installed Chrome on my new netbook and then synced it with my Google acct. Chrome's autocomplete was already somehow drawing on information collected about my searches made long ago on other boxes in a galaxy far, far away. That is terrifying.
Opera is looking more and more enticing every day.
What has autocomplete got to do with privacy ?
Did you import data from another browser, do you have autofill turned on, do you store session cookies etc etc
And privacy really relates to your identity, if you tie things to your google acct and choose to give them your real information then the onus of privacy is on you ? IMO anyways, google dont know who i am and i have 10+ google accounts, they can autocomplete all they like
Peace
Last edited by haqking; February 18th, 2012 at 10:30 AM.
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