Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

_sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Tja@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because it’s fast and works well enough to keep the fame acquired over the last 10 years.

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Slower than Firefox

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I use both for my job and my subjective feeling is that chrome is faster. Js benchmarks seems to confirm it. Privately I use Firefox 95% of the time but I understand people who stay on chrome just out of inertia.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m a Firefox user on desktop and mobile, and I definitely feel like Chrome is faster on both platforms when I (have to) use it. But I prefer Firefox for the ideology and dev tools (on desktop), since I’m a web developer by trade, so the dev tools make a big difference for me.

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    • IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There was a short period a few years ago after the Quantum update that I would have partially agreed, because Firefox’s renderer was much smoother. But Chrome seems to have caught up, because it’s been much faster every time I test something in it in the yesrs since.

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  • _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At the cost of zero privacy, data being stolen and other fundamental issues and morals that Google lacks.

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    • IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is invisible to most users, meaning they can ignore it or handwave it with “I haven’t got anything to hide”.

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      • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or worse, “They already know everything about me, so why bother”. One of my relatives says this. Kill me now.

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