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>>jakobd+(OP)
> Exactly how the rest of the world feels about this is not necessarily relevant, though. Google owns the world's most popular web browser, the world's largest advertising network, the world's biggest search engine, the world's most popular operating system, and some of the world's most popular websites. So really, Google can do whatever it wants.

This is the point that company breakups start to make a lot of sense.

When Google can do something that every one of it's users hates and none of us can do anything about it, they perhaps have too much market power.

>>mabbo+Wd
> When Google can do something that every one of it's users hates

I don't think this is remotely the case. Quite a few tech-savvy people I know (some of them software developers) use Chrome and mostly don't care about whatever Google does with it. I mention "manifest v3" and get a blank stare. I talk about advertising and ad blockers, and most people don't care, with some of them not even using ad blockers.

We really live in a bubble, here on HN. Most people think of privacy as some abstract thing that they have little control over, and are mostly fine with that. And some are even also fine with government erosion of privacy, in the name of "save the children" style arguments, and of corporate erosion of privacy, in the name of getting free stuff in exchange for their personal information.

It's a sad state of affairs. If most people really did care strongly about these sorts of issues, then I think it would be baffling why we haven't seen more change here -- after all, Firefox is a perfectly viable alternative to Chrome that very few people use. But the lack of change is no surprise: most people don't care.

>>kelnos+Ji
I have to disagree with Firefox... in terms of functionality and configurability it's by far and away my preferred browser but in terms of performance it just crunches to a crawl on my Mac. Load times of pages are absolutely fine but changing tabs crunch , scroll down the webpage judder freeze whereas Edge is just silky smooth.

Maybe it's an extension or three I'm running but I just want to use the bloody thing not sit there and figure out what extension is not working nicely (and then potentially find out it's none of them) on one platform but is fine on another.

Every so often I go back and have look to see if it's improvised but it hasn't in the last few years for me.

>>darren+Vq1
Using Firefox on a couple of Macs (one of them is >8 years old), and a couple of Linux systems.

Setting aside the fact that it's as fast as or faster than Chrome, it doesn't crawl any of my machines with >500 tabs (this has 562 as of now).

If you want to dig into your performance numbers there's "about:performance" to see what is using your processor and RAM.