Chrome vs Firefox?

[downtheroad]

I have been using Firefox for years...thinking of switching to Chrome.
Just asking what you use, what you like, any general likes or dislikes?

[tatest]

I had used Firefox on Windows for many years, until a few months ago it let a ransomware pop-up stomp on it, so I deleted Firefox and all its files, and switched to Chrome on my Windows computer (which still has also Edge and Internet Explorer).

As a Chromecast user, Chrome had been my secondary browser on all systems, with Firefox as primary on Windows, Safari on Max and iOS devices. Chrome is now primary on Windows, Safari on Apple computers.

[T18skyguy]

fj12ryder, I admit I'm trying to make myself feel better about e-addiction by saying it's good. I spend far too much time on the computer, and I don't even do Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or any of the social media sites. If anyone else feels they spend too much time on the computer, I would like to know how you discipline yourself off it. As far as them tracking us and stuff, I recently saw an article on how china does it. If I can find it, I'll post it. It makes our country look like it does nothing compared to them.

[fj12ryder]

"It's a good thing."

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

[T18skyguy]

AsheGuy wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:
I'm getting fed up with Firefox too.... BUT I don't think I could switch to Chrome which is 'all things google'. I don't want google embedded in a my browser tracking,collecting and selling everything I input.

Ah, but there are so many advantages of letting Google make things easier. I am an "all things Google" user at this point and find it quite helpful. The integration of their products is slick.

And most if not all alternatives are headed the same direction, Microsoft for sure with Edge and a Microsoft account and Microsoft cloud in their effort to be integrated like Google across all platforms.

There are certainly possible downsides to this knowledge that companies have about us, but I have yet to see one that out weighs the advantages. It's not like I have anything to hide or that isn't already known by my credit card company, Amazon, etc, etc.

If this bothers you, stay away from new technology. But you will be missing some really helpful applications.

I would agree. Google is far superior in many ways. Take for instance their voice search, which I use constantly. Anyone who says Siri or Bing can compete really hasn't used them all. The difference in power is so vast, that I feel Siri is for children, but Bing is just a few notches above Siri. We all have to be owned, either partly or in whole, by these tech companies. Who owns you is the one you spend the most time on. Most of us are owned by multiple tech companies. Even this site owns a little bit of me. It's a good thing.

[ralphnjoann]

MrWizard wrote:
i thought 'duck duck go' was a search engine like google

Correct. Opera is a browser; DuckDuckGo is a search engine.

[babock]

AsheGuy wrote:
I am an "all things Google" user at this point and find it quite helpful. The integration of their products is slick.

Yep....me too. Not into the conspiracy theorists thinkings on this.

[AsheGuy]

rockhillmanor wrote:
I'm getting fed up with Firefox too.... BUT I don't think I could switch to Chrome which is 'all things google'. I don't want google embedded in a my browser tracking,collecting and selling everything I input.

Ah, but there are so many advantages of letting Google make things easier. I am an "all things Google" user at this point and find it quite helpful. The integration of their products is slick.

And most if not all alternatives are headed the same direction, Microsoft for sure with Edge and a Microsoft account and Microsoft cloud in their effort to be integrated like Google across all platforms.

There are certainly possible downsides to this knowledge that companies have about us, but I have yet to see one that out weighs the advantages. It's not like I have anything to hide or that isn't already known by my credit card company, Amazon, etc, etc.

If this bothers you, stay away from new technology. But you will be missing some really helpful applications.

[MrWizard]

i thought 'duck duck go' was a search engine like google

[Irover]

I have been using Opera for a year + best decision I made! Use Duck Duck Go as the browser! Built in VPN!

[Jim2007]

Hi.. I have windows 10. I use chrome and fire fox as a backup . . Chrome seem I little easier for me to navigate ... windows 10 kepts pushing edge at me. Jim2007.

[rockhillmanor]

downtheroad wrote:
I have been using Firefox for years...thinking of switching to Chrome.
Just asking what you use, what you like, any general likes or dislikes?

I'm getting fed up with Firefox too.... BUT I don't think I could switch to Chrome which is 'all things google'. I don't want google embedded in a my browser tracking,collecting and selling everything I input.

[babock]

1492 wrote:

This is typically caused by an FF extension or plug-in that does not release its memory when not in use. Resulting in memory usage climbing to where FF can stop responding, or slowing down the system itself.

I have the same issues with FF which is why I switched to Chrome.

[theoldwizard1]

I used Firefox for many, many years but switched to Chrome about 3 or 4 years ago. Probably the best feature of Chrome (when used with a Google login) is the synchronization of the bookmark tool bar across computers.

Chrome can be a resource hog, so I would not use it on a computer that has marginal rsources/performance issues.

[Harvey51]

Firefox mostly but Chrome "incognito" tabs open newspapers without cookies thus avoiding paywalls.

Firefox has ended support for Windows XP. Chrome works better on XP now.