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nulagrithom on Feb 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why do you use Firefox?

Chrome feels invasive to me.

It's always wanting me to sign in to my Google accounts and sync everything. Why would I want to sign in to a browser?

It wants to run extensions as background processes (wtf?). Why would I want my browser to run "apps"?

It's like it wants to be an OS wrapped in an OS. Why wouldn't I just use my OS?

At this point, it just feels like bloat to me. I want a browser. That's all. I guess I use Firefox for what it doesn't try to do.

sp332 on Feb 6, 2017 [–]

I use Chrome apps for long-running things that are actually like apps. Gmail and Hangouts for example. It's nice to have a separate icon for them too. But I still do all my regular browsing in Firefox.

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