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Chrome lost me when it started to force-login me to Chrome when signing into Gmail, thus sharing all my website visits with Google. I switched to FF two months

Chrome lost me when it started to force-login me to Chrome when signing into Gmail, thus sharing all my website visits with Google. I switched to FF two months ago and haven't looked back. FF is like Linux: less polished, but works, and you are in control. A fair tradeoff for me.

feanaro 8y ago
Less polished in what way?
- mherrmann 8y ago
  The window and rendering is a bit more jittery. The UI is less slick. I do find static sites render faster in FF. But JS-heavy pages are (somewhat) faster in Chrome.
  - feanaro 8y ago
    The UI being less slick seems like a very subjective thing, especially when phrased vaguely and without concrete detail of what's wrong. This is especially surprising to me given how similar the two browsers now look (see a comparison someone posted in a comment elsewhere: http://9ol.es/double-browser.png http://9ol.es/double-browser.png). Firefox has actually been more responsive and less jittery for me than Chrome for quite some time, but I've seen various differing experiences in large enough numbers that I suspect this is dependent on many variables. Yet any difference I observe is still minimal. Can it really be that bad?
    - mherrmann 8y ago
      No, it's not bad at all. Merely noticeable for me.
fyfy18 8y ago
I switched over summer and the only thing I really miss is the translation built into Chrome. S3.Translator seems to be the recommended alternative, but compared to Chrome it's next to useless. I find it very slow, constantly nagging and often it breaks websites. in Chrome the translation 'just works'.
- Markoff 8y ago
  it's even worse on android, only alternative to Chrome if you need translation it's Edge for android, which it's still using inferior translation, tried it for few minutes and saw completely opposite transmission than was meaning on the page
hliyan 8y ago
This is exactly where the lost me too. I'm moving towards using Facebook and Gmail in their own Firefox containers. But the problem is, I foresee a lot of sites that use "Sign in with Google" deliberately crippling their experience for people who don't expose their Google session...
- mherrmann 8y ago
  I think signing in with anything other than email is a horrible idea. By doing that, you forever tie yourself (and your data) to Google. I never use those options.
  - bluehatbrit 8y ago
    I agree, but I didn't come to this decision until a bit later in my internet life, so I'm slowly unpicking a number of services. These days if a service doesn't support email auth I just don't bother signing up for it. I control my email address and the domain used for it, I can't see a reason to use my old gmail anymore.
mk89 8y ago
Everyone complains about privacy, yet a browser forcing you to share what you visit with a website has 60+% market share, which is insane. The only answer to all this bully behavior is since years only one: Firefox. A bit slower here and there? It's ok, machines are getting more and more powerful. Your data won't come back, once it's in someone else's hands.

feanaro 8y ago

Less polished in what way?

mherrmann 8y ago
The window and rendering is a bit more jittery. The UI is less slick. I do find static sites render faster in FF. But JS-heavy pages are (somewhat) faster in Chrome.
- feanaro 8y ago
  The UI being less slick seems like a very subjective thing, especially when phrased vaguely and without concrete detail of what's wrong. This is especially surprising to me given how similar the two browsers now look (see a comparison someone posted in a comment elsewhere: http://9ol.es/double-browser.png http://9ol.es/double-browser.png). Firefox has actually been more responsive and less jittery for me than Chrome for quite some time, but I've seen various differing experiences in large enough numbers that I suspect this is dependent on many variables. Yet any difference I observe is still minimal. Can it really be that bad?
  - mherrmann 8y ago
    No, it's not bad at all. Merely noticeable for me.

fyfy18 8y ago

I switched over summer and the only thing I really miss is the translation built into Chrome. S3.Translator seems to be the recommended alternative, but compared to Chrome it's next to useless. I find it very slow, constantly nagging and often it breaks websites. in Chrome the translation 'just works'.

Markoff 8y ago
it's even worse on android, only alternative to Chrome if you need translation it's Edge for android, which it's still using inferior translation, tried it for few minutes and saw completely opposite transmission than was meaning on the page

hliyan 8y ago

This is exactly where the lost me too. I'm moving towards using Facebook and Gmail in their own Firefox containers. But the problem is, I foresee a lot of sites that use "Sign in with Google" deliberately crippling their experience for people who don't expose their Google session...

mherrmann 8y ago
I think signing in with anything other than email is a horrible idea. By doing that, you forever tie yourself (and your data) to Google. I never use those options.
- bluehatbrit 8y ago
  I agree, but I didn't come to this decision until a bit later in my internet life, so I'm slowly unpicking a number of services. These days if a service doesn't support email auth I just don't bother signing up for it. I control my email address and the domain used for it, I can't see a reason to use my old gmail anymore.

mk89 8y ago

Everyone complains about privacy, yet a browser forcing you to share what you visit with a website has 60+% market share, which is insane. The only answer to all this bully behavior is since years only one: Firefox. A bit slower here and there? It's ok, machines are getting more and more powerful. Your data won't come back, once it's in someone else's hands.