For visiting Google and Facebook maybe, but I can’t tell you the number of times ads and pop up malware has caused my phone to hang in Safari, which doesn’t happen in Chrome. You visit lesser known media sites, stream sports not available in your country on a shady site, etc. only on chrome, never safari.
Safari is one of the primary reasons Internet Explorer died.
The iPhone became a huge hit and it ran Safari. Huge swaths of the internet had "requires Internet Explorer" plastered on every page. The iPhone immediately made that untenable, at least in mindshare even if marketshare was not quite there yet.
As someone who used Firefox at the time web page compatibility improved tremendously thanks to the iPhone and Safari.
I'll also remind people that Google decided they didn't want to play in the same sandbox as everyone else and forked WebKit to make Blink, then promptly went on a tear ripping out what they didn't like and adding their own proprietary extensions as fast as their engineers could think them up.
Google is also the one spamming everyone who goes to Google.com with prompts to switch to Chrome.
Most of those atrocities happened because IE was the popular browser at the time. Nobody would have built those things if no one was using IE, they built them because "everybody" was.
Chrome is in that same popularity catbird seat at the moment. There are entire websites that "everyone" needs to install Chrome Extensions to work with, and those are only Chrome Extensions. It is the same thing, different decade. It will be the same mess that IE left behind when Google decides working on a browser is boring and there are more promotions to be had in moving the team to building another Messenger or a another new Operating System.
create-account|1 year ago
Chrome is a telemetry device with the appearance of a web browser.
Firefox is shady abusing telemetry. It seems FOSS but Mozilla has turned into an advertising company and activated adds for every user.
If you want real FOSS, you need to use Librewolf or some other alternative for the time being
darth_avocado|1 year ago
For visiting Google and Facebook maybe, but I can’t tell you the number of times ads and pop up malware has caused my phone to hang in Safari, which doesn’t happen in Chrome. You visit lesser known media sites, stream sports not available in your country on a shady site, etc. only on chrome, never safari.
redserk|1 year ago
How is it worse?
yungporko|1 year ago
xenadu02|1 year ago
The iPhone became a huge hit and it ran Safari. Huge swaths of the internet had "requires Internet Explorer" plastered on every page. The iPhone immediately made that untenable, at least in mindshare even if marketshare was not quite there yet.
As someone who used Firefox at the time web page compatibility improved tremendously thanks to the iPhone and Safari.
I'll also remind people that Google decided they didn't want to play in the same sandbox as everyone else and forked WebKit to make Blink, then promptly went on a tear ripping out what they didn't like and adding their own proprietary extensions as fast as their engineers could think them up.
Google is also the one spamming everyone who goes to Google.com with prompts to switch to Chrome.
Bluecobra|1 year ago
WorldMaker|1 year ago
Chrome is in that same popularity catbird seat at the moment. There are entire websites that "everyone" needs to install Chrome Extensions to work with, and those are only Chrome Extensions. It is the same thing, different decade. It will be the same mess that IE left behind when Google decides working on a browser is boring and there are more promotions to be had in moving the team to building another Messenger or a another new Operating System.
dcdevito|1 year ago
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