I guess it's the pretty colors?
I guess it's the pretty colors?
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Firefox logo looks better anyway.
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And the browser is better than this Chromium bullshit
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Used to, anyway.
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Still does, though I agree I liked the old one better.
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RIP little paw
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Firefox gang
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Lynx gang!
(Edit: love it that somebody gave me a downvote for mentioning the Lynx browser)
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Gang gang
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Ungoogled-chromium gang
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I'd rather use spyware than that piece of garbage. So many things are missing or broken. Ik it's smaller and open source but that doesn't mean it's the best solution. I'm waiting for arc to come out on Windows.
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Couldn't agree more
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Actually, what is the reason that Firefox seems to be preferred over Chromium? Is it the license? The control Alphabet has over it?
One has to agree that there is a lot more money poured into chromium, the code is more modern and easier embeddable, it is more feature-complete.
Though, it's good to have two independent browser engines and a non-profit (+for-profit subsidiary) dedicated to a free, open, user-focussed browser.
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Which still is based on Firefox, like down if other great derivatives. All of those are great, and mostly up to personal preference.
The important step is to get people out of the chromium universe in the first place. Sadly, Google puts their poison in at the well (=chromium), so a lot of formerly fantastic chromium-based secure and private browsers are now failing.
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What are these other two browsers? Please elaborate!
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I don't blame the users here, remember from 2008 to 2012 where chrome ads where plastered on every website. Google knew what it was doing spreading its Trojan horse. I wouldn't have known about the existence of chromium if I wasn't lurking of privacy forums, blame google this time.
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Back then chrome was useful tho. Faster than any competition.
Now, while it's still fast, it's so. Fekkin. Hungry.
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I want my browser to be hungry. I'd rather have it using the memory for sites than have the sites reload when I switch tabs. I want it to be fast on all things.
This is not exclusive to Chrome. No matter what I use, I want it to be running from RAM and not have to swap or reload anything. Even things on my phone. I absolutely hate when I'm in the middle of multitasking on my phone and I go back to some information and the app has been unloaded and needs to load from scratch again (sometimes requiring a login to view the information I had previously retrieved).
That being said, I load everything I own up with about as much RAM as I can, and I buy devices with more RAM than I think I'll need. Generally when considering an upgrade to my current cellphone, I'm looking at the RAM of the new phone and considering if the increased amount justifies the work and cost involved with changing phones (if there's an increase at all). Since RAM will be the most significant factor in whether or not something can keep up with me.
My main PC has 64G, my laptop has 32G, and I believe right now, my current phone has 8G. It may be time to upgrade my phone....
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It wasn’t, people were using out dated explorer versions and up to date Chrome was faster
Luckily Microsoft learned from Google that you can’t leave updates up to the user
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Love the legend at the bottom!
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the hecking pepper brush from GIMP at the end got me laughing!
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It's like a little trophy that we get the privilege of using as a reward for mastering GIMP's admittedly beginner-hostile interface
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when i was in high school chrome had lots of school restrictions but chromium didnt. life saver for me, guy who did nothing in high school
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Schools IT departments all over the world are doing society a massive favor by indirectly teaching children how to bypass censorship. 80% of what I know about IP and NAT came from finding different ways to bypass my school's firewall haha
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one of my ways of bypassing the schools block on reddit was so stupidly easy
ssl error comes up trying to go to reddit. delete ssl from the link bar (cant remember its name) and boom reddit works
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Nice job on the half chrome logo on the second panel
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Thank you! You noticed! I like to put that extra little bit of effort into my memes to make them stand out
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Green Is My Pepper 👌
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Or use Firefox, a browser not made by the same guys who want to create a monopoly on web browsers.
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Don't they receive millions from Google specifically?
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Yeah, but they do a lot of good stuff for the open internet, and they respect user freedom and privacy. Unlike Google, they allow you to use proper adblockers and don't want to screw you over with this MV3 bullshit.
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I agree with the sentiment, but acktshually... https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/limiting-private-api-availability-in.html
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That's the not-spyware part of it.
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Well they marketed it heavily and this is the result.
Also no one is a loser for using a piece of software.
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Unless it's Chrome or Windows. According to some folks, you might as well end it all now.
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I love how the Chrome logo is literally a camera shutter looking at you, with Chromium the same but in camo. Really gets the message across.
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Good luck finding a Chromium build for non Linux based systems. Not that I would be affected by that.
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I tried to download Chromium but it's a mess. No way a regular user will be able to download and install it. The will to do it will fade pretty quickly
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Firefox is better anyways
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Firefox doesn't fucking work with my daughter's online school. This is a national school that multiple states are adopting as a state online school (meaning it is a public school and we don't have to pay tuition) and we have to use Chrome because I can't get it to work in Firefox and I hate Edge. Even worse, a bunch of materials from the school either don't mention which browser to use or specifically say you can use either Firefox or Chrome. I spent like half an hour trying to figure out why it wasn't working. I did updates, resets, anything I could think of, until my wife texted me and said maybe it has to be in Chrome. And yep, that worked.
Of course, the school is run by Pearson, and they're evil, so they probably have a deal with Google anyway.
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I’m happy with Safari but yeah Firefox is my other choice
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Flatpak (and flathub.org) has been a lifesaver for this, I use Ungoogled Chromium. Of course only for the few broken shitty websites that I'm forced to use
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So... Chrome is for exhibitionists?
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use cromite or firefox
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Pretty sure cromite has windows builds now. Personally think firefox is better than any chromium alternative on desktop
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Replace the icon?
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Except that the spyware is so intertwined into Google's products that many websites straight-up break without them. Google Drive won't even let you download stuff with third-party cookies disabled.
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Just install a de-googled Chromium fork (ungoogled-chromium or Brave), and create a separate browser profile for Google Drive? Then it doesn't matter if you have third party cookies enabled or not, your browsing data is completely isolated for your main profile. That's what I do for almost every proprietary web-app I use (Discord, youtube, shopping services, whatsapp web, f*cebook, etc.). The only issue is that the profile picker gets rather crowded, but to overcome that I wrote a rofi script that lets me launch chromium profiles directly
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Downvote for "literally". Better adverbs please?
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Is "literally" an adverb? I always though that adverbs were like adjectives but used for verbs (actions). Like "quickly" or "slowly". Where is the action in a sentence like "It's literally the same browser"? Is it an adverb for the "is" (to be) auxiliary verb? srry english not my first language
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Wtf is wrong with you
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It is pretty ingenious (and evil) the way they made the Chromium logo look like the shitty off-brand diet version of Chrome.
Completely ignoring Chrome's success is off the back of it being advertised on the world's most popular website since it's release, then yeah.
And it being installed with unrelated software as crapware, and Google adopting Microsoft's "Youtube isn't done until Firefox doesn't run"...
and they advertised it on tv pretty heavily, too.
I wonder if chromium having the blue colors is what set the precedent for almost every other privacy-conscious browser to have a blue logo (Waterfox, GNU Icecat, palemoon, librewolf...)
EDIT on second though probably not, blue just seems like a good color for internet-related applications. Safari, edge, and internet explorer are also blue!
For years I've seen blue as a social media color and stayed away. A beautiful peaceful color ruined by Facebook and its ilk
As others already said, Chromium definitely isn't the first or only one to use a blue logo. There is a theory that colours influence the way we perceive a brand, for example this article explains that idea.
Blue is supposed to convey trustworthiness and maturity. A lot of companies like that, so you tend to see a lot of blue.
You may also be experiencing the frequency illusion. If you specifically noticed the blue in Chromium's logo, it would make sense that you suddenly started noticing the blue in other logos as well!
I feel like just more app icons in general are blue than any other color. Off the top of my head in addition to what you mentioned I have shazam, venmo, signal, steam, blink, reolink, dropbox, steam, paypal, discord, max, disney plus. And that's not even counting one's that are majority white but with blue as the only color. I think it's just the most popular design choice or maybe there's some sinister market research somewhere that shows people use/spend more on apps that have blue icons.
And no API keys included on the Windows version of Chromium...