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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history (www.theregister.com)
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Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history...

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[–] 33 points 3 years ago* (11 children)

I may be cursed but I have never experienced any slowdown with Firefox. I never noticed the appeal of Chrome, but have I only used it twice in my life…

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    I use a macbook for work. Chrome is ridiculously buggy and sucking every bit of memory. Firefox is almost as bad. Chrome is really bad when using more than 1 tab. Firefox has rendering issues with jira and git. Chrome compelling locks up when using meet, Firefox is slightly better.

    In my opinion all browsers have sucked since 2015. Slow, unresponsive, rendering issues, resource hogs. Overall the browser experience has led me to use the internet less and less. It is not the privacy, it is the basic functionality is not working consistently.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (7 children)

    Damn, how old is that MacBook? I think you should ask for a hardware upgrade, because both Chromium based browsers and Firefox don’t use too much resources and run smoothly on the newer models. I can’t say that Chrome isn’t buggy, as I barely use it, but I have never encountered a Firefox bug on any of my devices.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

    Doesn't every browser on Apple hardware use Safari for rendering?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (4 children)

    macOS is a desktop OS. It has a terminal, it lets you download that sketchy .app file from a random website, and it allows browsers to use their own engines. So, not too different from Windows or Linux.

    You are correct for iOS and iPadOS though. They must use the WebKit rendering engine. All browsers on those are just Safari reskins.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    So it's just an iOS thing, got it.

    Still weird, I truly yearn for the Linux Phone

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    It works really well on mobile, that's just about all the appeal I can find. Some sites are a bit glitchy on Firefox, but it's really rare. I keep it around for those occasions. On PC it's just Firefox and Edge (cuz work).

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