Please Recommend a New Browser

[Ar-Pharazon]

7 add-ons? Christ, I'm an add-on hoarder. I don't even want to mention how many I have now.

I once likened Firefox to a tiny broken robot, it means well, but damned if you don't have to keep fixing and replacing pieces to make it work.

I'm on version 27, 25 wiped everything (bookmarks, settings, everything) on upgrade, 27 is glitching like it's having a seizure.

So yeah I'm open to suggestions too.

That makes me glad I refused to upgrade from 21, though even 21 is long past the point Firefox became as bloated as the browser is effectively replaced (Netscape).

Chrome is a good, streamlined browser, but a little too striped down for me and I've gotten so used to how Firefox operates.

I've tried Opera & Safari and didn't find them to be improvements over Firefox, but I've kept Chrome.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I take it that most of you who use Chrome are satisfied with Google's privacy policy, such as it is? Do you have to have a Google account to use Chrome?

You do not need a Google account to use Chrome, though having one does enable some handy features (like syncing of bookmarks and settings between multiple computers.)

You can disable almost every aspect of Chrome that phones home, though by default I think it's just the search query autocomplete suggestions and the update checks. Search autocompletion can be disabled easily. Not sure about the update checks, but all those do is determine if you have the latest version.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

You do not need a Google account to use Chrome, though having one does enable some handy features (like syncing of bookmarks and settings between multiple computers.)

Firefox can do that too (it's called Firefox Sync), though I haven't tested it yet.

In any case, Firefox has been working fine for me so far, so I don't see any reason to abandon it. I do see that Chrome has the same kind of selective handling of cookies (i.e. it lets you block all cookies except for a whitelist you specify) that Firefox does, so that - coupled with the fact that I wouldn't need a Google account, which I refuse to get - is good news.