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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] !deleted183961@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not using Chrome is so easy. I mean, Firefox is right there and is a better browser to boot. I genuinely have no idea why people still use Chrome for everything.

[–] corus_kt@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I work at a small company - absolutely everything from work macros, accounts and shortcuts are all intertwined in Chrome, they've been using it like that for ten years - it'd be faster for me to find a new job then to unclog that mess from the entire office. I still installed firefox for personal use though.

[–] Jako301@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Firefox is not the better browser in anything but privacy. Maybe it could win in customisability, but that's something only a few percent of users care about.

It has longer load times and sometimes breaks sites entirely while using about the same resources. Yes, the reason for that is that website creators don't deliberately support it, but the normal user only cares about functionality.

I still use it and recommend it to anyone that asks, but saying that it's the better browser is just delusional.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Okay I'm happy to switch, I used to use Firefox years ago until Chrome came along and it's a great browser, but can I integrate my Google accounts with it?

I want it to sync all my stuff to my Google accounts, and so far I've not found another browser that can do this :-(

I'm also not sure if all the plugins I have would have Firefox implementations, maybe they do. I use Darkreader, some password vault stuff, uBlock, SponsorBlock and the other YouTube one they make (I forget the name) are an absolute must, too.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

All work on Firefox.

While you can't use Google password-manager easily on Firefox (probably there is a plugin for that) the Firefox password-manager is better in my opinion.

The Google account stuff works mostly, but I don't know what you exactly want to do. You should try it out.