I’m finished with Google Chrome.
- Its wiped my toolbar bookmarks AGAIN. This is the fourth time in six months.
- It still burns more battery than Safari or Firefox.
- The updater wastes bandwidth by updating every 60 minutes
- The updater keeps changing – I’ve seen wget, ksfetch, curl and custom updater. I’m wasting too much time on my outbound security setup here.
- It performs a hidden installation “Google Search” app on my Mac. What the hell ?
- Chrome keeps phoning home to tell Google what I’m doing (I monitor outbound traffic requests). Safe browsing is a feature but there are far more requests to Google domains that I cannot explain. Thats creepy and increasingly I worry about the data leakage that is occurring.
- Its big. 800MB so far and that’s after a regular monthly cleanup
I’m back to using Apple Safari. Its not perfect either, but right now it is better than using Chrome on Mac OS X.
Welcome to the club. I stopped using it a year ago after I realized Chrome had morphed from a strong browser with solid security story into a sort of Stealth operating system built atop mysterious binary ‘blobs’ and loaded with Javascript.
!00% agree, chrome is a beast. I would rather use Microsoft
Edge
my problem is that Chromium (a variant of Chrome) is the only Mac browser I can get to work with Juniper’s RNA tunnel from MacOS.