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I'm probably in the minority (I know Chrome is the most popular browser; I mean a minority among HN users), but I really like Google Chrome. When you have a pow

• lucb1e 10y ago
  Phrases "I'm probably in the minority" or "unpopular opinion here" followed by a reasonable opinion just beg to be upvoted by everyone who thinks it's reasonable and suppress downvotes by making people think twice about it. In this case, loads of people here are positive about Chrome, or if they care about Google's monopoly, Chromium.
• djsumdog 10y ago
  I think the big issues with Chrome is just the Google factor. That's really the only reason it was able to grow the market it did in that time space. When Chrome was released, they took parts of WebKit, parts of Gecko and released a closed browser. -_- It has been opened up since and there are fully OSS versions like Chromium, but since Google had been a big funder of Firefox for so long, a lot of FF people saw this as sort of a betrayal. Personally, Chrome doesn't have a lot of the tools I need. When it came out, you couldn't make a plugin that created a sidebar without doing a lot of hacky stuff (is this still true?). Chrome also had limits on their API so you couldn't create as efficient adblockers (not sure if this is true anymore either). Despite issues people have had with the Firefox UI and the Mozilla foundation itself, I still think Firefox is the better choice. I've been using the new multi-process feature of FF and it's considerably faster now as well.