Google Chrome

“Chrome doesn't generate revenue by itself, but it certainly drives advertising revenue across the rest of Google's portfolio”

“Pinning certificates in a browser was a brilliant idea for Chrome because web browsers are not made for technical users.”

“Chrome came along and accelerated web platform development since their products relied on a thriving web ecosystem.”

“The Chrome rendering stack is such an inspiration for how to do high performance GUIs on multiple operating systems.”

“am constantly reminded once every few months or weeks or so when I open up Chrome to check something and am confronted with how much snappier it is”

“Chrome from near the beginning was well-engineered and had three compelling-according-to-user-research advantages”

“Because it's 99% about distribution and Chrome was distributed by the world's most visited website and the pre installed default on over a billion devices.”

“A lot of devices are configurable through serial connections using the Web Serial APO thats only available in chromium browsers.”

“On the exact same box running Windows I was able to have VS Code, Chrome with 15+ tabs, terminals, docker, etc. all running with zero issues.”

“Chrome's stability innovation was to run different tabs in different processes, and the security innovation was then to sandbox those processes.”

“I only really use pass keys for desktop/web things because that's the only place the "store/read from $password_manager" flow _works_.”

“The reality is that the move is great, it's a very cool and nice stuff, just that it takes bandwidth and space without letting the user know.”

“They've kneecapped ad-blockers, when ad networks are perhaps one of the biggest causes of malware installs/page hijacking/other unwanted behaviour.”

“Save page, speed, battery life, bookmark sync, tab sync, and password sync are all slightly better in Chrome.”

“Restricting webRequestBlocking (but it's not going away, just needs a policy extension) and synchronous executeScript did in practice make adblockers unreliable”

“What users want is a working browser that gets out of the way and them browse the web. That's what Chrom(e,ium) is.”

“It's very convenient when I watch video while I do some work or entertaining thing on other web page or app.”

“It was the first to do a separate process per tab, which had security and stability benefits. But it also used like 2x the RAM from the start.”

“Firefox is somewhat secure and stable compared to Chrome, which is backed by Google with their infinitely deep pockets.”

“I’m actually quite interested in this on device scam detection and might be installing chrome on my aunts computer.”

“A large jump in requirements without warning is bad, if I want to avoid it I now need to take immediate less considered actions or get stuck with the consequences.”

“The more severe problem is that Google installs model weight files on a per-user basis, meaning Chrome occupies 4 more GB of space for every OS user on your device.”

“they are grouped under one single tab, so for me at least is more easy to alt-tab to other app and return to the split view”

“This is article about Chrome doing something undesirable with AI. Which can be easily disabled by going into chrome://flags.”

“at Google Meet it renders a nice separate window with mute/unmute controls as you switch to another tab and screen share”

“we are almost all using a Chrome derived browser instead of Firefox, old IE, old Opera, because of performance and quality.”

“I've got Chrome, Visual Studio Code, Steam and a full suite of command-line tools, which covers my personal essentials.”

“The split view is incredibly handy when you're looking at a web application and an observability tool for that web application at the same time.”

“Chrome and all other major browsers now ask the user for permission before letting websites send requests to localhost”

“Chrome is heavily and well designed in that regard. It's evident that everything was heavily considered and evaluated.”

“I find Chrome's current implementation (on Android) to be acceptable as long as measures are taken to prevent clickjacking”

“they paid Adobe, Oracle, and legions of freeware antivirus providers lots of $$$ to put a checked-by-default box in their installers”

“I'm recommending they use Google Chrome , specifically because it supports the APIs my company needs to use for our product (on Android at least).”

“Chrome extensions, functionning ad blocking (without having to pay for a stupid Apple blessed extension) and just generally more usefull feature set is the real reason Google is winning.”

“Insane that this is seen as "better software". I could do basically the same functionality in 2000 with 512mb. I assume this is because everything runs through chrome with dozens more layers of abstraction”

“Companies like Chrome because can use Google as their IDP, and when their employees log in with their company account the company can push certs and security politicies to their Chrome install.”

“If chrome charged a 28% commission on all purchases I made through the browser, everyone would switch to Firefox”

“Google did a great job communicating Chrome's improvements over speed (both with startup and prefetch) and reliability”

“Partly it was technical prowess. But google pushing it on their web pages and paying to put an "install chrome" checkbox into the installers of unrelated programs”

“Chrome not only immediately decided to remove them with very short notice, but literally refused to even engage with people pointing out issues”