Every family member I have uses Chrome on their mobile because “Google” and pretty much every family member has over 100 tabs open at any one time.
And that’s not because they want 99+ tabs open. It’s because they simply don’t close them / practice tab management.
Like, it’s a little frustrating that they all use Chrome, but even more frustrating that Chrome doesn’t have the option to “Close tabs after {days}” option.
I need some advice with #GoogleChrome (the browser) on #macOS. Please read the entire description before writing a reply:
I have stored user names and passwords for many websites.
If I navigate to the login page of one of those sites, my user name and password are inserted automatically (as it should be).
If I click the little 'key' symbol in Chrome's address bar, it displays the name of the site, the stored user name, and the password for that site (as it should be).
Our goal is to make SimpleLogin aliases easy to implement into your online routines. This is why we have developed browser extensions for all major browsers like #Firefox#Safari#googlechrome, #MicrosoftEdge and @brave :
I've used #MicrosoftEdge on my #Android phone for a year or more because I got creeped out by #GoogleChrome , the recent #CoPilot AI junk appering in Edge made me install #Firefox it lasted a week. I can't believe I prefer Edge! Firefox is slower, uses far more RAM, has crashed on me several times and it doesn't appear to be able to auto complete usernames unless you also save the password ;( something I refuse to do.
I feel so dirty going back!
(I'm exclusively Firefox on my desktop machine!)
If you ever thought “I wish I could control my browsers using Shortcuts”, you might be in luck! 😉 It's still a work in progress but I think it's quite solid already.
Contra Chrome: in the style of Scott McCloud's original comic https://scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/ used to announce Google Chrome to the world back in 2008 (yes it's been over 15 years), now here is a similar comic demolishing Chrome for what it has become: a surveillance machine https://contrachrome.com/comic/page01/
Remember to setup a Firefox container (right-click on the "+" to open a new tab, choose "Manage containers") for any Google service you use, and to keep all its services there, spying on themselves and not able to see anything else that you do on the web. And trivially open URLs in other containers by right-click and choosing "Open link in ..." to starve the data munching machine.
Don't forget to install the add-ons ublock-origin, Privacy Badger (from the EFF @eff) and perhaps also DuckDuckGo privacy essentials.
Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.
Given Google's overwhelming presence in the browser market, this is unconscionable.
We should all despise the ad-tech business, and have no sympathy for the companies getting whacked by Google's actions. But we should not permit one monopolist to replace them all.
uBlacklist - a browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to block websites and entire domains from search results on Google, Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, Searx, Startpage.com, and more.
"The lawsuit's plaintiffs revealed internal emails that allegedly showed conversations between Google execs proving that the company monitored Incognito browser usage to sell ads and track web traffic."
>new browser
>ask the developer "is it a new browser or google chrome"
>they don't get it
>pull out a chart explaining the difference between a new browser and google chrome
>they laugh and say "it's a good browser ma'am"
>download the browser, look inside
>it's google chrome
Priority todo for today: Get the new Browser Actions TestFlight ready and out of the door. Since it became clear that I won't be able to sell that app through the App Store, I realized I might as well rebuild it to be able to do more™ later.
My ability to accept (App Store) rejections is straight-up Shakespearean