Firefox: the new Internet Explorer?

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4 points·svimma23··7 comments

Chrome (Not Chromium, although it still has parts) could be classed as Spyware. It sends pretty much everything you do to Google (URL suggestions, history etc.) and is constantly phoning home. If you don't use the 'Express' settings on Windows 8 you'll notice it asks you if you wish to send your BROWSING HISTORY to Microsoft 'to improve prefetching performance'.

Firefox is one of the only browsers out that still respects your privacy. Same can not be said for many.

I've been saying this for a while & Chrome is next ... actually Chrome is about to become Windows, full of bloatware. Full of things installed that no one uses, processes doing things that have no use to any every day user.

Ha - agreed on Chrome being full of bloatware, but at least they iterate and evolve to support new standards. (Over the last 9mos or so Chrome has implemented a pretty solid version of WebRTC video for example). It almost seems like Firefox isn't even trying to keep up anymore. I didn't mention in the post itself, but the bug on Firefox that is messing us up is blocked by like four other bugs that also have made essentially no progress over many months.

How is chrome becoming bloatware? Please explain.

I thought I did. To be more clear, users of hacker news are not the ones who will be suffering the effects of a bloated Chrome. It will be "every day" users who just click click click.

Strange, cause I see the same essential Chrome I had 5-6 years ago. What has changed? (I don't even run extensions, for that matter).

Exactly! It won't become bloated unless you install a million extensions and apps that you don't like. haha

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