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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, people knew enough to ditch IE for Firefox, but I think Google's marketing convinced everybody that Chrome was the best. Most people tell me they use Chrome because it's the fastest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah early on when chrome was released I was a big proponent of it. But that was in Google’s earlier days before they adopted Microsoft’s EEE policy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? I always hated it. It was such a resource hog compared to Firefox, and that only got worse as Firefox improved.

My main Linux distro at the time, Fedora, wouldn't even ship Chromium because of how difficult and inefficient it was to package. It leaves a bunch of Google crap on Mac too.

Was it better on Windows or something? Because it's always been crap on Linux and Mac.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In 2008? Sure, chrome was lightning quick, especially with V8 on the JS side, granted this was on Mac. It was only a matter of time before it became google’s ad platform though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the Linux version was ahead of Mac and Windows in 2008. It was already crap then. lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m a JavaScript dev by trade. V8 was light years ahead when it came out, the specs on runtime compilation were off the charts. I’m not defending google by any means, but the work that went into V8 is how nodejs was created, and Firefox has adapted many of those learnings into its own JS engine. Google was and always has been a corporation for profit, but their engineers really pushed JS into a new stage with their engine, whether or not the browser around it was great