I get that Google is dominant in web search, but that's mainly because Google's search results are actually better, privacy concerns aside
But what makes normies so eager to download this shit onto their desktops rather than use Firefox or Opera, IIRC it has 50% market share and rising
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These are the same people that use Windows, remember. They pretty much like to eat shit.
itjustwerks and has recognizable name
>normies
If you use Google services, the company hassles you every five seconds to "upgrade" to Chrome.
Chrome browser is good, outside of privacy concerrn, and tend to be far better than the browsers from microsoft
>is good, outside of privacy concerrn
Giant dildo up you arse is also useful
Ads everywhere.
Google push it on their websites just like Microsoft does with Edge on Windows 10.
Isn't Microsoft Edge the default browser on Windows now?
>outside of privacy concern
And customization
>>outside of privacy concern
>And customization
Customization is of little concern for normies anyway
Speaking from experience I started using it like a decade ago and it's got all my passwords and shit.
It's just like any other software ecosystem. You get trapped after a long time using it without thinking, and you get to be too lazy to entertain a different solution.
Are you implying privacy is?
you could install Firefox and import everything there in the first launch. Firefox also has sync.
What's the ultimate "non-normie" browser then? Hopefully you aren't about to say firefox
Lnyx
the results are shit, it’s all takedowns and ads
search is dead for google now that all knowledge has been centralised by wikis and specialised sites
And how is Firefox better than Chrome?
curl
Devtools
Chrome is the best browser
Firefox has so many problems, it's insane how bad it is compared to chrome if you just compare them properly
Edge is probably the "best" browser because it's sticking the web standards almost perfectly, but google is so fucking big they can just force standards by being so big they get what they want.
It's not that Chrome is good, it's that everything else is complete unusable trash
I wouldn't argue it's better but having Firefox in Android I can use ublock and that makes it better for me.
It's free.
>if you just compare them properly
Dafuq this means? If you compare them with parameters that put Chrome in a better light?!
I don’t fucking know, and won’t pretend to know like some Anons, how correct is the code of any of these two browsers, how well they implement standards, or anything. What I know is that Chrome was damn fast to launch when it was released and Firefox had memory leaking problems and a cluncky GUI that broke on me many times. I used Chrome for years because of that, despite my privacy concerns. Eventually, Firefox sort itself out and I started using it, but it soon enough ran out of money and introduced similar privacy-breaking bullcrap to attract corporate money.
In the end, the only browser I have fond memories is the old, old, old Opera; back in the late 1990s, when it was still a paid browser. Maybe it was because I didn’t know better. But how tabs worked, the download manager, and mouse gestures just fit right with my “work” flow.
Nowadays, if you don’t want a botnet browser, you have many options: IceCat, if you like Firefox style; ungoogled-Chrome, if you like Chrome; Otter Browser, eventually, if you like old Opera; and qutebrowser, if you like vim.
There’s no reason to shill for a company that wants to be the Good Censor of the Internet and cries when the politician favoured by their cult loses ONE election.
But you have to use Wangblows to use Edge.
>Opera
>not Vivaldi
They're all the same shit, especially if you're a normie who just needs a simple browser that lets you google search shit, so who gives a fuck? Stop being faggots.
firefox is now unusable
new version of NoScript is absolute shit tier joke
thats a downside
It was simply installed automatically some time ago when installing anything else like a fucking virus and seems that it worked.
No it isn't, freedom hater.
Why does Windows use those awful installer wizards? Is it just Microsoft trying to appease antivirus software salesmen by having users install software in the least secure way possible?
Yes? These are the people that put their entire life story publicly on facebook and other social media, they couldn't give a rat's dickhole about privacy.
>Are you implying privacy is?
It's likely far more of a concern for them
this is why firefox is trash. the top bar takes up a lot of the screen. it annoys me
You can customise it any way you want.
then i how do i get rid of that top bar that is taking up unnecessary space?
The good thing about Chrome is that it basically never crashes on you. Even in the worst case scenario you usually just have to kill a tab. With Firefox when it crashes all your tabs close
With CSS, of course.
Enable Client Side Decorations
for reference, with CSD enabled.
At least it follows standards and uses your theme. Chrome just puts its ugly buttons there.
Also
> Caring about screen space
> Using Gnome with default theme.
KEK
you should also note the colors firefox displays are incorrect
the absolute state of brainlet.
I don't even use Gnome and I know you can disable the titlebar.
What? Literally every color on the Chrome side are incorrect. It's like it's got a red shift going on or something.
>1366x768
there's your problem
put your window control buttons onto your panel anons, comfiest feel
>but that's mainly because Google's search results are actually better
Their search results are modified to push a political agenda which means inaccurate results.
yes it is
go to customize untick top bar
Exactly. They psyoped normies into installing Chrome. It didn't happen overnight. When did it firts start, around 2008? They constantly bombarded normies with messages on Google prodcust to switch to Chrome. Click here. Click here goyim. It works better! 10 years later ... voila.
>Chrome is the best browser
> not using ungoogled chromuiem
why are you here /v/eddit ????
>It's not that Chrome is good, it's that everything else is complete unusable trash
>not using ungoogled chromuiem
is this the peak performance of Jow Forums these days ?
>using GNOME
>ever
lmao get a load of this fucking retard
w3m or elinks
I use Arch, btw.
>is this the peak performance of Jow Forums these days ?
you tell me. is there anything better than chrome. only qutebrowser comes close (and is superior in some ways), but its adblocker and memory consumption suck.
speaking of sucking, you know what else sucks? surf. that pos is unusable. can't play youtube without freezing.
>UI is perfect
>Tabs are seperate process
>No bullshit animations
>personal extensions are easy to make
That's why.
Fagfox, Brave, Vivaldi are all just bloated.
of course i wouldn't say firefox
waterfox is much better
>memory consumption suck.
The fact that you don't understand why this happens only confirms the namefag's point. qute use qtwebengine, the same rendering engine behind your favorite browser, chromium.
>speaking of sucking, you know what else sucks? surf. that pos is unusable. can't play youtube without freezing.
same issue here: surf uses old webkit which is trash.
browsers like chrome that used to use it probably had to use a shit load of glue to get it to work, but standing alone it fails horribly.
Get educated.
Huge library of extensions, simple interface, it werks. It's not hard to work out user.
and you propose which alternative?
they probably don't even know that something other than chrome or firefox exists, they just hear chrome and think "it's internet explorer except not shit"
i have literally only just started using linux and i was able to remove it in seconds
qutebrowser is the only way to go.
FF/Chromium are uncustomizable pieces of garbage now after FF quantum. Use and CONTRIBUTE to qutebrowser to help the community overcome this shortage that the retards at mozilla brought on.
i was using it and in terms of usage i was most comfy with it. while i was using it did 5 minutes of research on the memory consumption and i know about the qtwebengine. i tried to switch to webkit and it didn't allow me to. is there another solution to this? is there any way to mend its adblocking deficiency?
Using webkit will only lead to more pain. I find that qute's adblocking suits my needs, albeit with a small patch I had to add to block youtube ads. Other than that, what do you find lacking?
well, i've already mentioned memory consumption. the interface is minimal, but the browser itself is a bit thirstier than chrome.
also, i use crunchyroll, but qbrowser has some issues with it and wouldn't play flash videos, and as far as i know, there's no way to integrate the html5 player extension into it.
Because it has a massive ecosystem backing it, and Opera is garbage.
You can download Google™ Chrome® Webbrowser here:
google.com
ITT: many retards giving stupid answers
There is literally NO difference whatsoever between Firefox and Chrome for 95% of people.
Both work well enough and both have adblock.
It all comes down to marketing and Google simply wins there. That's the one and only reason why normies mostly use Chrome.
manually typing HTTP requests using telnet
what is the best ungoogled chromium?
Braindead normalcunts are stupid consumer pigs. They like whatever they're told to like. That's why capeshit and Nu Wars are a thing.
Windows didn't used to be bad. Still, I cringe whenever I see someone using 10 or all too often I see them waiting for updates to stop (lel).
>Firefox
>Windows didn't used to be bad
Microsoft have openly had backdoors in Windows since XP.
SO. FUCKING. WHAT.
>MUH SECURITY MUH SECURITY MUH SECURITY
Devs are cancer.
>using crunchyroll
You're problem for using such shitty websites and services. Not qutebrowser's
>b-but I want to support anime tiddies
if you want to give back to anime creators buy Blu-rays or dvd's. Or support the mangaka directly by buying the Manga.
Your*
>chrome
i knew this was coming ...
>using a shitty service
i can use it just fine on chrome
>supporting by buying blu-rays and mangas
i buy mangas on comixology, but i don't want to buy physical copies of hundreds of shows i've watched. not many people can afford that. i'm fine with a few monthly subscriptions and that's it. and also, stop just listening to what digibro says and do your own research. crunchyroll actually does support the industry.
it's bundled with literally every adware-ridden gratis download.
most normies I know actually have: IE (preinstalled), Firefox or Opera (installed by someone they know who "is good with computers") and Chrome (default browser) because it was bundled with coolfreesoftwareinstaller.exe
chrome is the 201X equivalent of IE toolbars
>IE toolbars
Oh lawd I'd entirely forgotten all those fucking toolbars. I used to absolutely grill people about why they were letting stupid fucking toolbars take up 1/3 of their screen.
Color and the name
spread included in install packages at launch
current ceo
you
own
the
information you have
AS THE FIRST HAND
you are the one giving your shitty pc things you have or know.
shut the fuck up.
this even writing down anything + all content
so this is how social media emerged quickly so people had to give up their real info because of people the know in real life and stuff
It’s all about convenience. The normies are fucking lazy, and having a browser that stores their shit in the cloud, and allows it to be accessed pretty much anywhere instantly is what does it for them. Mob mentality and “following the flock” also has an influence in normies using Chrome. Honestly though, no matter how convenient it is, Chrome is still a proprietary botnet, and I had bad experiences with it on my previously shit internet, so I’ve been continually using Firefox since the better part of 2012.
Just torrent it fag
Funny you say that, Chrome's top bar is fucking thick and as far as I can tell there's no way to thin it out.
It just werks. That's not a meme. It's something many spergs here don't want to understand.
It's easy, fast, and works. Not everyone is a tin foil hat retard like yourself.
Yeah we fucking know, Mr. Redditor.
unless you are using macos you are a faggot.
Absolutely based.
it's a good browser