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IE was a majority browser while being bad. Chrome is the best browser available (for average joe at least). No plea to use another browser will be heard, until

by roesel 9y ago

IE was a majority browser while being bad. Chrome is the best browser available (for average joe at least). No plea to use another browser will be heard, until there is an as-good or better alternative.

Vinnl 9y ago
What makes it better than the other browsers for the average Joe other than being preinstalled on Android?
- roesel 9y ago
  I was talking about the desktop version. If you want the features chrome provides, the experience is by far the smoothest, fastest and most integrated compared to other browsers. Don't get me wrong, I hate the RAM usage and the anti-privacy defaults, but if I put idealism aside, Chrome works best :-/. (And I don't really understand the downvotes. Perhaps I explained my point better here?)
ocdtrekkie 9y ago
The average joe's Chrome install is loaded up with malicious browser extensions that are installed via the Chrome Web Store (which is unpoliced) at the behest of malicious websites from Google Ads which pretend to be search results. These extensions have full access to the content of people's web browsing to inject content or collect data, compromising everything they do online. Chrome is the worst browser available for the average joe, and your grandma is better off on Edge, where every extension is manually approved by an actual human.
- roesel 9y ago
  Your first point applies to any browser which has a large enough user base and allows for extensions. AFAIK, Firefox has the same issue you described and Edge has zero to no addons, functionality and options compared to either of the two. The second depends on the grandma I guess. The ones I know use AdBlock of some sort and like their pages to work :).
  - eridius 9y ago
    > Your first point applies to any browser which has a large enough user base and allows for extensions. It doesn't apply to Safari. Apple actually polices the Safari Extensions Gallery.

by roesel 9y ago

Vinnl 9y ago

What makes it better than the other browsers for the average Joe other than being preinstalled on Android?

roesel 9y ago
I was talking about the desktop version. If you want the features chrome provides, the experience is by far the smoothest, fastest and most integrated compared to other browsers. Don't get me wrong, I hate the RAM usage and the anti-privacy defaults, but if I put idealism aside, Chrome works best :-/. (And I don't really understand the downvotes. Perhaps I explained my point better here?)

ocdtrekkie 9y ago

The average joe's Chrome install is loaded up with malicious browser extensions that are installed via the Chrome Web Store (which is unpoliced) at the behest of malicious websites from Google Ads which pretend to be search results. These extensions have full access to the content of people's web browsing to inject content or collect data, compromising everything they do online. Chrome is the worst browser available for the average joe, and your grandma is better off on Edge, where every extension is manually approved by an actual human.

roesel 9y ago
Your first point applies to any browser which has a large enough user base and allows for extensions. AFAIK, Firefox has the same issue you described and Edge has zero to no addons, functionality and options compared to either of the two. The second depends on the grandma I guess. The ones I know use AdBlock of some sort and like their pages to work :).
- eridius 9y ago
  > Your first point applies to any browser which has a large enough user base and allows for extensions. It doesn't apply to Safari. Apple actually polices the Safari Extensions Gallery.