{"slug": "chrome", "name": "Chrome", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "Google's free, Chromium-based web browser for desktop and mobile platforms.", "recommenders": 22, "commenters": 134, "warners": 50, "score": -8.605, "rising": 9.73, "first": "2025-11-09", "latest": "2026-10-29", "why": "Liked for its speed, broad site compatibility and developer tools, plus bookmark, tab and password sync across operating systems.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 23, "neutral": 60, "compare": 5, "warn": 56}, "spark": [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 7, 0, 5, 4, 4], "listed": true, "loved": ["Speed", "Handy features"], "caveat": "Memory bloat", "short_quote": "The reason I switched to chrome a long time ago was tab isolation, how much faster it was than Firefox, and built it better developer tools.", "icon": false, "domain": "blog.google", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.google.com/chrome/", "pricing": "free", "aliases": ["Chrome", "Google Chrome"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked for its speed, broad site compatibility and developer tools,", "cites": [{"id": 792478704, "item_id": 49529919, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529919", "by": "HaloZero", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The reason I switched to chrome a long time ago was tab isolation, how much faster it was than Firefox, and built it better developer tools.", "excerpt": "What\u2019s the real selling point? Yeah non profit but is it gonna be faster and better than WebKit? The reason I switched to chrome a long time ago was tab isolation, how much faster it was than Firefox, and built it better developer tools. What\u2019s ladybug got going for it?", "context": "", "use_case": "browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}, {"id": 775576496, "item_id": 48473531, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473531", "by": "vintagedave", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Every time I started Chrome, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything was just slightly faster to react", "excerpt": "For me it's speed. I used FireFox for the same reasons, for years. Every time I started Chrome, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything was just slightly faster to react, to switch tabs, to scroll, to interact. I kept reading posts about how the FireFox team was increasing performance, yet it never seemed to really impact it. Maybe because I often have several windows with a dozen tabs each (yes, one of those people", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browsing", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}, {"id": 788686385, "item_id": 49292899, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292899", "by": "simantel", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ultimately I switched back to Chrome full-time as a result.", "excerpt": "I used Firefox for most of last year. I consistently ran into issues where a form wouldn't submit, or a website would appear subtly broken, but it would work in Chrome. Ultimately I switched back to Chrome full-time as a result.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 801224753, "item_id": 50076547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076547", "by": "zaphar", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Chrome at least works for any web standard which IE did not.", "excerpt": "I use safari regularly and it has not really kept up. All kinds of stuff that is partly broken for rendering. Especially on heavily dynamic sites. Chrome at least works for any web standard which IE did not.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 795241088, "item_id": 49702568, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702568", "by": "bel8", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's really powerful. I have been using it in Chrome for a while.", "excerpt": "It's really powerful. I have been using it in Chrome for a while. This is how to enable: chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging", "context": "", "use_case": "agent remote debugging", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}]}, {"text": " plus bookmark, tab and password sync across operating systems.", "cites": [{"id": 789219040, "item_id": 49326190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326190", "by": "socalgal2", "date": "2026-08-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I do as I use 3 OSes and want all my stuff synced across them, something I can't do with Safari.", "excerpt": "You'd be wrong. One of six iOS users install Chrome. I do as I use 3 OSes and want all my stuff synced across them, something I can't do with Safari.", "context": "uses 3 OSes", "use_case": "cross-OS synced browsing on iOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"}, {"id": 776934224, "item_id": 48558389, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558389", "by": "xnx", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Save page, speed, battery life, bookmark sync, tab sync, and password sync are all slightly better in Chrome.", "excerpt": "Save page, speed, battery life, bookmark sync, tab sync, and password sync are all slightly better in Chrome. I used Firefox on Android for probably 11 years before switching to Dolphin (RIP) and then stock Chrome when Firefox made it a huge pain to install extensions. I keep waiting for someone to fully enable extensions on Chrome for Android.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "I Fired Google"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaints are heavy memory use", "cites": [{"id": 801285504, "item_id": 50080344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080344", "by": "koinedad", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I see significant out of memory issues with chrome on a regular basis.", "excerpt": "Anecdotally I see significant out of memory issues with chrome on a regular basis. I use chrome for work but safari for personal and rarely see the same issue with safari if almost never.", "context": "", "use_case": "work browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 788968753, "item_id": 49310547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310547", "by": "alt227", "date": "2026-08-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I was horrified at Chromes memory bloat and the fact it puts tabs to sleep.", "excerpt": "I have used Firefox solely for over a decade. Recently I switched to Chrome to see what I was missing. I was horrified at Chromes memory bloat and the fact it puts tabs to sleep. Trying to click through old tabs was an absolute nightmare as it tried to quickly load back each tabs state and memory, and cpu spikes massively causing whole machine slowdowns, blank white pages, and app freezes. People say that Firefox doe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"}, {"id": 788637968, "item_id": 49289873, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289873", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "And yet Chrome\u2019s memory usage has become a meme at this point.", "excerpt": "> I think with as powerful computers as we have right now, you can run almost any browser without performance issues And yet Chrome\u2019s memory usage has become a meme at this point.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 770626704, "item_id": 48164169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164169", "by": "01jonny01", "date": "2026-05-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "youtube on Chrome desktop regularly consumes over 1 gig of ram", "excerpt": "I am glad someone is writing about this youtube on Chrome desktop regularly consumes over 1 gig of ram. Even running it on FF with uBlock doesn't seem to help much. When I use 3rd party yt sites like skipvids.com I rarely go above 300 mb of ram", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs"}]}, {"text": " and weaker ad blocking since Manifest V2 was dropped.", "cites": [{"id": 801300992, "item_id": 50081312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081312", "by": "geuis", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The death of manifest v2 is the 2nd to last nail.", "excerpt": "I'm old enough to have been in the industry when Chrome launched. It was amazing. It was such a relief to move away from IE and all the arcane levels of details I had to remember back then to artisnaly get IE to behave like a moderately modern (for then) browser. Chrome was fast, did the basic job of correctly rendering pages, and its js runtime was groundbreaking. Node.js was direct outcome of that revolution. Now t", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 788604785, "item_id": 49287799, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287799", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm currently moving away from Chrome though, as I can no longer use any MV2 extensions", "excerpt": "Depends on what device I am using. Currently Thorium/Chrome, sometimes Firefox. I'm currently moving away from Chrome though, as I can no longer use any MV2 extensions because all the workarounds stopped working.", "context": "", "use_case": "browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 786212195, "item_id": 49138262, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138262", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Ublock origin is another thing that no longer works on Google chrome", "excerpt": "> As a journalist, I have used Google News for many years to catch up on topics in which I am interested. Interesting observation. I noticed this a few years ago already, when Google started to kill off Google search. I can give many examples but just a simple one: Google used to cache phpBB webforum conversations. I could even read entries that were available only to people who would log in, which was convenient, be", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now"}, {"id": 798451185, "item_id": 49903199, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903199", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms", "excerpt": "It's about alignment of interests. They believe that there is a business that is valuable selling a user-centric browser. A user-centric browser does not exist today. Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms to run, for example, ad-blocking in the browser and they do so under the name of security. They've already tried to push the web integrity initiative. They'll try again. Mozil", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Speed", "summary": "Commenters who switched from Firefox say Chrome felt faster to react, switch tabs and scroll.", "quotes": [{"id": 775576496, "item_id": 48473531, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473531", "by": "vintagedave", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Every time I started Chrome, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything was just slightly faster to react", "excerpt": "For me it's speed. I used FireFox for the same reasons, for years. Every time I started Chrome, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything was just slightly faster to react, to switch tabs, to scroll, to interact. I kept reading posts about how the FireFox team was increasing performance, yet it never seemed to really impact it. Maybe because I often have several windows with a dozen tabs each (yes, one of those people", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browsing", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}, {"id": 792478704, "item_id": 49529919, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529919", "by": "HaloZero", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The reason I switched to chrome a long time ago was tab isolation, how much faster it was than Firefox, and built it better developer tools.", "excerpt": "What\u2019s the real selling point? Yeah non profit but is it gonna be faster and better than WebKit? The reason I switched to chrome a long time ago was tab isolation, how much faster it was than Firefox, and built it better developer tools. What\u2019s ladybug got going for it?", "context": "", "use_case": "browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}, {"id": 788957984, "item_id": 49309874, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309874", "by": "Shank", "date": "2026-08-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "People like me evangelized switching to Chrome for everyone.", "excerpt": "Back when I first moved off of Firefox the answer was performance. A lot of users mass-migrated to Chrome because it supported a very similar set of extensions and was significantly more stable and performant. People like me evangelized switching to Chrome for everyone. Many copies of Chrome were installed by me. Now the performance still hasn\u2019t caught up to Chrome but it has improved, and uBlock Origin Lite does a d", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"}]}, {"label": "Handy features", "summary": "Users point to seamless page translation, solid tab crash recovery, Google Lens and per-site JavaScript toggles.", "quotes": [{"id": 801268800, "item_id": 50079300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079300", "by": "freetime2", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In Chrome you can switch back and forth between languages seamlessly", "excerpt": "Maybe a bit of an edge use case, but I use the translate page feature a lot in browsers. In Chrome you can switch back and forth between languages seamlessly, but in Safari translating a page requires reloading the page - which can cause issues on forms that use POST. Even worse, I've found that switching back to the original language just doesn't work on pages loaded with POST - the page gets stuck on the translated", "context": "", "use_case": "page translation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 775560480, "item_id": 48472530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472530", "by": "20k", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them", "excerpt": "For me the two reasons I can't live without are 1. Firefox's ctrl-f search doesn't highlight all instances of a found item on the right hand side. It sounds petty, but its a gigantic timesaver for looking through research documents 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them If I could find a way to fix these I'd swap in a he", "context": "", "use_case": "research browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}, {"id": 787626096, "item_id": 49226631, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226631", "by": "tim333", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Chrome.", "excerpt": "I use Chrome. uBlock Origin Lite works fine, basically as well as the old uBlock as far as I can tell. As to why, I kind of like it - the built in Google Lens tool is cool and I don't think is in the other browsers?", "context": "", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}]}, {"label": "Site compatibility", "summary": "Some report that sites broken in Firefox or Safari work in Chrome.", "quotes": [{"id": 788686385, "item_id": 49292899, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292899", "by": "simantel", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ultimately I switched back to Chrome full-time as a result.", "excerpt": "I used Firefox for most of last year. I consistently ran into issues where a form wouldn't submit, or a website would appear subtly broken, but it would work in Chrome. Ultimately I switched back to Chrome full-time as a result.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 801224753, "item_id": 50076547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076547", "by": "zaphar", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Chrome at least works for any web standard which IE did not.", "excerpt": "I use safari regularly and it has not really kept up. All kinds of stuff that is partly broken for rendering. Especially on heavily dynamic sites. Chrome at least works for any web standard which IE did not.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}]}, {"label": "uBlock Origin Lite", "summary": "Several users say uBlock Origin Lite blocks ads well enough in Chrome.", "quotes": [{"id": 797753936, "item_id": 49859621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859621", "by": "mystifyingpoi", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the official Chrome (not Chromium) with uBlock Lite and everything works perfectly", "excerpt": "Your experience is strange, I use the official Chrome (not Chromium) with uBlock Lite and everything works perfectly (except the 5s delay at the start).", "context": "", "use_case": "watching YouTube", "switched_from": "", "story": "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"}, {"id": 787626096, "item_id": 49226631, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226631", "by": "tim333", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Chrome.", "excerpt": "I use Chrome. uBlock Origin Lite works fine, basically as well as the old uBlock as far as I can tell. As to why, I kind of like it - the built in Google Lens tool is cool and I don't think is in the other browsers?", "context": "", "use_case": "main browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"}, {"id": 776929697, "item_id": 48558106, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558106", "by": "dunham", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "So far I've stuck with chrome for a few reasons", "excerpt": "ublock origin lite is blocking a bunch of stuff for me, and things are unbearable when I turn it off. For many sites, especially news sites, I toggle javascript off. It's reasonably easy to do per site in chrome (click left of location bar and \"site settings\"). I don't know if there is an easy way to do this per site in firefox. So far I've stuck with chrome for a few reasons: - Mozilla doesn't implement desktop PWA ", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers"}]}, {"label": "Cross-device sync", "summary": "Bookmark, tab and password sync works across multiple operating systems.", "quotes": [{"id": 789219040, "item_id": 49326190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326190", "by": "socalgal2", "date": "2026-08-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I do as I use 3 OSes and want all my stuff synced across them, something I can't do with Safari.", "excerpt": "You'd be wrong. One of six iOS users install Chrome. I do as I use 3 OSes and want all my stuff synced across them, something I can't do with Safari.", "context": "uses 3 OSes", "use_case": "cross-OS synced browsing on iOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"}, {"id": 776934224, "item_id": 48558389, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558389", "by": "xnx", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Save page, speed, battery life, bookmark sync, tab sync, and password sync are all slightly better in Chrome.", "excerpt": "Save page, speed, battery life, bookmark sync, tab sync, and password sync are all slightly better in Chrome. I used Firefox on Android for probably 11 years before switching to Dolphin (RIP) and then stock Chrome when Firefox made it a huge pain to install extensions. I keep waiting for someone to fully enable extensions on Chrome for Android.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "I Fired Google"}]}, {"label": "Developer tools", "summary": "Its developer tools and remote debugging are cited as strong.", "quotes": [{"id": 792478704, "item_id": 49529919, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529919", "by": "HaloZero", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The reason I switched to chrome a long time ago was tab isolation, how much faster it was than Firefox, and built it better developer tools.", "excerpt": "What\u2019s the real selling point? Yeah non profit but is it gonna be faster and better than WebKit? The reason I switched to chrome a long time ago was tab isolation, how much faster it was than Firefox, and built it better developer tools. What\u2019s ladybug got going for it?", "context": "", "use_case": "browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}, {"id": 795241088, "item_id": 49702568, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702568", "by": "bel8", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's really powerful. I have been using it in Chrome for a while.", "excerpt": "It's really powerful. I have been using it in Chrome for a while. This is how to enable: chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging", "context": "", "use_case": "agent remote debugging", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Memory bloat", "summary": "Many report high memory use, out-of-memory issues and slowdowns.", "quotes": [{"id": 788968753, "item_id": 49310547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310547", "by": "alt227", "date": "2026-08-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I was horrified at Chromes memory bloat and the fact it puts tabs to sleep.", "excerpt": "I have used Firefox solely for over a decade. Recently I switched to Chrome to see what I was missing. I was horrified at Chromes memory bloat and the fact it puts tabs to sleep. Trying to click through old tabs was an absolute nightmare as it tried to quickly load back each tabs state and memory, and cpu spikes massively causing whole machine slowdowns, blank white pages, and app freezes. People say that Firefox doe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"}, {"id": 801285504, "item_id": 50080344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080344", "by": "koinedad", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I see significant out of memory issues with chrome on a regular basis.", "excerpt": "Anecdotally I see significant out of memory issues with chrome on a regular basis. I use chrome for work but safari for personal and rarely see the same issue with safari if almost never.", "context": "", "use_case": "work browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 770626704, "item_id": 48164169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164169", "by": "01jonny01", "date": "2026-05-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "youtube on Chrome desktop regularly consumes over 1 gig of ram", "excerpt": "I am glad someone is writing about this youtube on Chrome desktop regularly consumes over 1 gig of ram. Even running it on FF with uBlock doesn't seem to help much. When I use 3rd party yt sites like skipvids.com I rarely go above 300 mb of ram", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs"}]}, {"label": "Ad blocking limits", "summary": "The end of Manifest V2 broke uBlock Origin and other MV2 extensions for some users.", "quotes": [{"id": 801300992, "item_id": 50081312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081312", "by": "geuis", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The death of manifest v2 is the 2nd to last nail.", "excerpt": "I'm old enough to have been in the industry when Chrome launched. It was amazing. It was such a relief to move away from IE and all the arcane levels of details I had to remember back then to artisnaly get IE to behave like a moderately modern (for then) browser. Chrome was fast, did the basic job of correctly rendering pages, and its js runtime was groundbreaking. Node.js was direct outcome of that revolution. Now t", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 788604785, "item_id": 49287799, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287799", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm currently moving away from Chrome though, as I can no longer use any MV2 extensions", "excerpt": "Depends on what device I am using. Currently Thorium/Chrome, sometimes Firefox. I'm currently moving away from Chrome though, as I can no longer use any MV2 extensions because all the workarounds stopped working.", "context": "", "use_case": "browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 786212195, "item_id": 49138262, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138262", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Ublock origin is another thing that no longer works on Google chrome", "excerpt": "> As a journalist, I have used Google News for many years to catch up on topics in which I am interested. Interesting observation. I noticed this a few years ago already, when Google started to kill off Google search. I can give many examples but just a simple one: Google used to cache phpBB webforum conversations. I could even read entries that were available only to people who would log in, which was convenient, be", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now"}]}, {"label": "Google control", "summary": "Commenters distrust Google's market dominance, privacy and influence over the web.", "quotes": [{"id": 788684992, "item_id": 49292812, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292812", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Without Apple sticking to WebKit on the iPhone, Chrome would have a full monopoly over the browser and the direction of the web", "excerpt": "Chrome and Chromium browsers have around 80% of the browser market. Without Apple sticking to WebKit on the iPhone, Chrome would have a full monopoly over the browser and the direction of the web... even Microsoft caved to Google's monopoly in this space. You can argue that this would allow things to move faster, but faster in which direction? Would ad blocking be killed once and for all? Would tracking be embedded i", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 798451185, "item_id": 49903199, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903199", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms", "excerpt": "It's about alignment of interests. They believe that there is a business that is valuable selling a user-centric browser. A user-centric browser does not exist today. Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms to run, for example, ad-blocking in the browser and they do so under the name of security. They've already tried to push the web integrity initiative. They'll try again. Mozil", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 801441249, "item_id": 50090078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090078", "by": "SirMaster", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "With what Google has been doing to Chrome", "excerpt": "With what Google has been doing to Chrome, and given that I use iOS, I would definitely use Safari on Windows cause I trust Apple more with Privacy, plus the session/tabs/auth/bookmark/applepay etc integration between my phone and Windows laptop/desktop would be great!", "context": "iOS user with Windows laptop/desktop", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}]}, {"label": "Glitches and bugs", "summary": "Users report glitchiness, buggy printing, audio pops and an HDR color tint.", "quotes": [{"id": 801232417, "item_id": 50077026, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077026", "by": "alt227", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I am shocked how glitchy it is in comparison", "excerpt": "Ive used Firefox as my daily driver for around 12 years. I switched to Chrome a couple weeks ago to see what the fuss is about and I am shocked how glitchy it is in comparison. Firefox is a much more stable experience.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 803984177, "item_id": 50249011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249011", "by": "adrian_b", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "which is extraordinarily buggy in both Firefox and Chrome", "excerpt": "While what you say is correct, the point is that the excessive use of JS is what makes nowadays the print command the only way to save most Web pages. Years ago I was never using the \"print\" command in browsers. I used the \"save\" command. But now the \"save\" command is useless for most sites, because the saved scripts frequently do not work offline or they do not work even online, but from local files. So the only alt", "context": "", "use_case": "printing web pages", "switched_from": "", "story": "Websites Should Be Printable"}, {"id": 775291985, "item_id": 48455749, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455749", "by": "andrew2025", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Chrome shows a green tint on HDR videos due to YUV to RGB conversion error", "excerpt": "HDR Color Meter for Windows. This reads the HDR RGB values (scRGB where 1.0 = 80 nits). It also displays in Linear BT2020 (100.0 = 100 nits). I use it to debug the rendering behaviour of different apps. (E.g. Chrome shows a green tint on HDR videos due to YUV to RGB conversion error, DaVinci Resolve 20 shows HDR content 20% too dark) https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nftnff5sdnt?hl=en-GB&gl=AU Free trial is availabl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}]}, {"label": "Data loss", "summary": "Local storage can be wiped when the disk is full, and Android backups skip history and bookmarks.", "quotes": [{"id": 789553920, "item_id": 49347120, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347120", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2026-08-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This is one of the reasons I don't use Google Chrome anymore", "excerpt": "When my Intel Mac ran out of disk space once, it became impossible to clear the space without rebooting (due to APFS's annoying journaling crap or whatever -- it would literally say \"rm: can not remove [whatever]: no space left on device\" or something), which caused Google Chrome to wipe all my local storage and cookies because it loves to do that when you run out of disk space, and there's no way to get that data ba", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"}, {"id": 784961169, "item_id": 49060073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060073", "by": "gruez", "date": "2026-07-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Chrome and vanadium has a custom backup agent that only dumps out settings, so browsing history and bookmarks aren't backed up at all.", "excerpt": "That still doesn't prevent other means that developers have to thwart backups. Chrome and vanadium has a custom backup agent that only dumps out settings, so browsing history and bookmarks aren't backed up at all. I believe firefox is similar unless they changed something recently. Same goes for other apps like signal. Browsers, messengers, and camera are the top 3 categories of apps I use on my phone, and the built-", "context": "", "use_case": "browser backups", "switched_from": "", "story": "GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices"}]}, {"label": "Enterprise management", "summary": "Managing Chrome in enterprise mixes GPO policies with cloud-managed Workspace settings.", "quotes": [{"id": 801332033, "item_id": 50083252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083252", "by": "Melatonic", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Currently Chrome is a bit of a mess to manage in enterprise", "excerpt": "Your long term stable branches are a great start - that's what I use at work ! A centralised admin platform that integrates easily with others is of course also great. Currently Chrome is a bit of a mess to manage in enterprise with a mix of more oldschool GPO admx style policies (which are very detailed and robust however) and the cloud managed Google Workspace stuff.", "context": "", "use_case": "enterprise browser management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}]}], "who": [{"by": "MisterTea", "context": "IT at a workplace", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075652", "date": "2026-10-13"}, {"by": "ben_w", "context": "limits main device to trusted software", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990271", "date": "2026-10-07"}, {"by": "davsti4", "context": "Linux user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652881", "date": "2026-09-11"}, {"by": "socalgal2", "context": "uses 3 OSes", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326190", "date": "2026-08-16"}, {"by": "temporallobe", "context": "web app developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046849", "date": "2026-07-25"}, {"by": "echelon", "context": "Mac user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635476", "date": "2026-06-22"}, {"by": "mda_damico", "context": "Ubuntu laptop user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539983", "date": "2026-06-15"}, {"by": "m-schuetz", "context": "web developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472698", "date": "2026-06-10"}, {"by": "arjie", "context": "iPhone user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057856", "date": "2026-05-07"}, {"by": "shevy-java", "context": "Linux user without PulseAudio", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133713", "date": "2026-02-23"}, {"by": "leptons", "context": "company with a Bluetooth/WiFi product", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458548", "date": "2026-01-01"}], "tags": ["for web developers", "for multi-OS sync", "for Chromebook users"], "use_cases": ["web browsing", "browsing", "browser", "daily browsing", "daily browser", "web browser"], "compared": [{"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 154, "switched_from": 7, "switched_to": 22}, {"slug": "safari", "name": "Safari", "co": 46, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 4}, {"slug": "brave", "name": "Brave", "co": 31, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 5}, {"slug": "microsoft-edge", "name": "Microsoft Edge", "co": 21, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 5}, {"slug": "ublock-origin", "name": "uBlock Origin", "co": 25, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "vivaldi", "name": "Vivaldi", "co": 11, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 4}, {"slug": "arc", "name": "Arc", "co": 3, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "waterfox", "name": "Waterfox", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072286", "title": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome", "mentions": 10}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286427", "title": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?", "mentions": 9}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878759", "title": "I switched to Brave", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527748", "title": "Hang on to Your Firefox", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471970", "title": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514878", "title": "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO", "mentions": 5}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 5, "neutral": 2, "compare": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"warn": 2}, "2026-01": {"warn": 4, "recommend": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-03": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"warn": 2, "recommend": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-05": {"warn": 4, "neutral": 4}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 9, "warn": 3, "recommend": 7, "compare": 1}, "2026-07": {"warn": 5, "neutral": 4}, "2026-08": {"warn": 11, "recommend": 5, "neutral": 8}, "2026-09": {"warn": 10, "neutral": 11, "recommend": 4, "compare": 3}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 15, "warn": 9, "recommend": 4}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804675490, "item_id": 50292218, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292218", "by": "sebastiansm7", "date": "2026-10-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Android, Maps and Chrome I use it almost daily for years.", "excerpt": "Android, Maps and Chrome I use it almost daily for years. Dont know if are great at revenue, but are great products for me :)", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet\u2019s revenue"}, {"id": 804426992, "item_id": 50276687, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276687", "by": "bombcar", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "My current chrome reports no at https://one.one.one.one/help/", "excerpt": "\"In May 2020, Chrome switched to DNS over HTTPS by default.\" Welcome to hell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS (My current chrome reports no at https://one.one.one.one/help/ so maybe I changed it or maybe the default's different now)", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"}, {"id": 803984177, "item_id": 50249011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249011", "by": "adrian_b", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "which is extraordinarily buggy in both Firefox and Chrome", "excerpt": "While what you say is correct, the point is that the excessive use of JS is what makes nowadays the print command the only way to save most Web pages. Years ago I was never using the \"print\" command in browsers. I used the \"save\" command. But now the \"save\" command is useless for most sites, because the saved scripts frequently do not work offline or they do not work even online, but from local files. So the only alt", "context": "", "use_case": "printing web pages", "switched_from": "", "story": "Websites Should Be Printable"}, {"id": 803325168, "item_id": 50207823, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207823", "by": "jimmar", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Right now, I'm using Chrome, and I see the \"Relaunch to update\" button waiting for me to press it.", "excerpt": "> Most software, once mature, is mostly done. The caveat being that most software never matures. Maybe it's a cynical take, but virtually all software I use regularly is updated at least once a month. Right now, I'm using Chrome, and I see the \"Relaunch to update\" button waiting for me to press it. I see the arrow on the Ollama icon telling me I have to relaunch it to apply updates. I have Visual Studio Code running ", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is this the new cyber normal?"}, {"id": 803172434, "item_id": 50198277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198277", "by": "jaffa2", "date": "2026-10-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "chrome for google stuff", "excerpt": "i too like vivaldi for the same reasons. i use brave, chrome for google stuff, firefox if i need a third browser but i use vivaldi mostly. except on mac where i still use safari", "context": "", "use_case": "Google services", "switched_from": "", "story": "A farewell to Arc browser"}, {"id": 803170913, "item_id": 50198182, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198182", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-10-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "soon returned to Chrome", "excerpt": "Enjoyed using it to start with but soon returned to Chrome. Now I have a personal browser/terminal hybrid I use. Lots of the ideas from arc were good. Sidebar tabs, splits, page editability.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "Arc", "story": "A farewell to Arc browser"}, {"id": 801441249, "item_id": 50090078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090078", "by": "SirMaster", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "With what Google has been doing to Chrome", "excerpt": "With what Google has been doing to Chrome, and given that I use iOS, I would definitely use Safari on Windows cause I trust Apple more with Privacy, plus the session/tabs/auth/bookmark/applepay etc integration between my phone and Windows laptop/desktop would be great!", "context": "iOS user with Windows laptop/desktop", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801427248, "item_id": 50089203, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089203", "by": "origini", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I do not trust my local chrome installation to just manage my passkey.", "excerpt": "Google and other services like PayPal make Passkeys default if you generated one. Now they expect you to always use them to login on all devices. I had to remove my passkey from one device for these services because i also use a PasswordManager and I do not trust my local chrome installation to just manage my passkey. I want to have a Password Manager which I need to unlock when I use it. I also want to keep my 2fa a", "context": "uses a password manager", "use_case": "passkey storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}, {"id": 801404913, "item_id": 50087807, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50087807", "by": "5555624", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "while Chrome works fine", "excerpt": "> walmart: still get the \"technical issues\" error page. Try a different browser. I use Waterfox for most general purpose browsing and it rarely works with Walmart.com, while Chrome works fine.", "context": "", "use_case": "sites that break in Waterfox", "switched_from": "", "story": "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"}, {"id": 801332033, "item_id": 50083252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083252", "by": "Melatonic", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Currently Chrome is a bit of a mess to manage in enterprise", "excerpt": "Your long term stable branches are a great start - that's what I use at work ! A centralised admin platform that integrates easily with others is of course also great. Currently Chrome is a bit of a mess to manage in enterprise with a mix of more oldschool GPO admx style policies (which are very detailed and robust however) and the cloud managed Google Workspace stuff.", "context": "", "use_case": "enterprise browser management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 801309554, "item_id": 50081847, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081847", "by": "tisdadd", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "that those tests take longer than Firefox and Chrome, my daily drivers", "excerpt": "I do use safari in my playwright tests, and it led to me doing a note on my known limitations page - that those tests take longer than Firefox and Chrome, my daily drivers. But, that could be due to using it on Linux maybe. I do hate having to dig out ios devices for app testing.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801300992, "item_id": 50081312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081312", "by": "geuis", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The death of manifest v2 is the 2nd to last nail.", "excerpt": "I'm old enough to have been in the industry when Chrome launched. It was amazing. It was such a relief to move away from IE and all the arcane levels of details I had to remember back then to artisnaly get IE to behave like a moderately modern (for then) browser. Chrome was fast, did the basic job of correctly rendering pages, and its js runtime was groundbreaking. Node.js was direct outcome of that revolution. Now t", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801285504, "item_id": 50080344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080344", "by": "koinedad", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I see significant out of memory issues with chrome on a regular basis.", "excerpt": "Anecdotally I see significant out of memory issues with chrome on a regular basis. I use chrome for work but safari for personal and rarely see the same issue with safari if almost never.", "context": "", "use_case": "work browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801268800, "item_id": 50079300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079300", "by": "freetime2", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In Chrome you can switch back and forth between languages seamlessly", "excerpt": "Maybe a bit of an edge use case, but I use the translate page feature a lot in browsers. In Chrome you can switch back and forth between languages seamlessly, but in Safari translating a page requires reloading the page - which can cause issues on forms that use POST. Even worse, I've found that switching back to the original language just doesn't work on pages loaded with POST - the page gets stuck on the translated", "context": "", "use_case": "page translation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801259041, "item_id": 50078690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078690", "by": "jedberg", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Chrome for accessing google owned properties and things I click on from Google search", "excerpt": "I use all three browsers on a daily basis. Chrome for accessing google owned properties and things I click on from Google search, Safari for reddit and hacker news, and Firefox for everything else. Safari is always the best on my Mac, but my complaint has always been the lack of plugins. But just now I ported one of my favorite plugins from Chrome to Safari using ChatGPT. I told it I already have it installed in Chro", "context": "", "use_case": "Google properties", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801240594, "item_id": 50077537, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077537", "by": "secretsatan", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "i also have have chrome installed as some websites are so buggy otherwise", "excerpt": "I recently downgraded one of my macs so i could use some 32 bit audio peripherals. You can\u2019t update safari separately from the os i found out, and most websites now just won\u2019t render with that os and if they do, barely work. I installed firefox and that was fine. OTH, i use safari on my other mac, it\u2019s fine most of the time, but i also have have chrome installed as some websites are so buggy otherwise, linkedin is a ", "context": "", "use_case": "fallback for buggy sites", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801237041, "item_id": 50077315, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077315", "by": "roughly", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "at work, I use Chrome like everyone else", "excerpt": "Also, half the sites on the Internet don\u2019t work properly on anything but chrome. At home, I\u2019m an ardent and committed Firefox user, at work, I use Chrome like everyone else (and keep anything personal as far away from it as I can).", "context": "", "use_case": "work browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 801233921, "item_id": 50077120, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077120", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I keep an instance of Chrome open for tabs that I never really close.", "excerpt": "Here are some reasons I don't use Safari in place of Chrome for certain things: - it doesn't like to serialize the state of tabs. Chrome is pretty good at somehow snapshotting the entire state of tabs to the point where it can be reconstructed after relaunch, even offline. - webpage loading is sort of janky. Chrome will show the webpage streaming in live, but Safari will simply freeze in place until it's done. Maybe ", "context": "", "use_case": "persistent tabs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801232417, "item_id": 50077026, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077026", "by": "alt227", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I am shocked how glitchy it is in comparison", "excerpt": "Ive used Firefox as my daily driver for around 12 years. I switched to Chrome a couple weeks ago to see what the fuss is about and I am shocked how glitchy it is in comparison. Firefox is a much more stable experience.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801224753, "item_id": 50076547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076547", "by": "zaphar", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Chrome at least works for any web standard which IE did not.", "excerpt": "I use safari regularly and it has not really kept up. All kinds of stuff that is partly broken for rendering. Especially on heavily dynamic sites. Chrome at least works for any web standard which IE did not.", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"}, {"id": 801210433, "item_id": 50075652, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075652", "by": "MisterTea", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We used to install FF and Chrome on the local PCs at work", "excerpt": "We used to install FF and Chrome on the local PCs at work to ensure this would not be an issue. The office workers just used Edge.", "context": "IT at a workplace", "use_case": "workplace browser installs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 801193313, "item_id": 50074582, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074582", "by": "omoikane", "date": "2026-10-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "personally I use both Chrome and Firefox every day", "excerpt": "> people are going to try and install Chrome at all costs Mozilla might have anticipated this when they wrote \"Diversify your browser engine\" as one of the selling points. https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/firefox-enterprise/#:~:text=Diversify%20your%20browser%20engine Diversification is a good idea, personally I use both Chrome and Firefox every day (and sometimes Lynx).", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox Enterprise"}, {"id": 800882064, "item_id": 50055129, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055129", "by": "hilbert42", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "never let Chrome anywhere near my machines", "excerpt": "My default is to run without JS and selectively enable it when absolutely necessary, so when I clicked on this story the page was prefaced with the following comment: \"You're protected from the methods I use here. You disabled JavaScript, so this fingerprinting trick can't run at all. You're still vulnerable to network-based methods. Read on to see what it does to everyone else. From now on I\u2019ll call you:\u2026\" I've run ", "context": "runs without JS by default", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fingerprints are the new cookies"}, {"id": 800852610, "item_id": 50053288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053288", "by": "hamsterbase", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Chrome and 1Password all worked fine", "excerpt": "Does Huawei provide an Android virtual machine with Google frameworks built in? When I was traveling in Japan, I used Google Maps, and for daily use, Chrome and 1Password all worked fine. In my daily use, only three apps run in the virtual machine: 1Password, Steam, and Chrome. They all run normally, but they're a bit laggy.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"}, {"id": 800818736, "item_id": 50051171, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051171", "by": "chaostheory", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "on chrome based browsers, the fingerprint survives even in incognito mode.", "excerpt": "wow on chrome based browsers, the fingerprint survives even in incognito mode. On Safari, fingerprinting doesn't survive in incognito mode. Same with Firefox. Good thing I use different computers for different purposes, though it looks like using different browsers seems sufficient.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fingerprints are the new cookies"}, {"id": 799844338, "item_id": 49990271, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990271", "by": "ben_w", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "my main device is limited to (somewhat) trusted software: MacOS, Chrome", "excerpt": "For me, my main device is limited to (somewhat) trusted software: MacOS, Chrome, a few well-known brands like BBEdit. All the \"fun\" (untrusted) stuff on that machine is behind the sandboxing of a browser and the OS itself. Anything that needs local permission is on a separate laptop which is only got one account: Claude. Not even signed in to Apple (nor any browser) on that, despite it being a Mac.", "context": "limits main device to trusted software", "use_case": "sandboxed browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How do you check desktop apps for malicious code?"}, {"id": 799574354, "item_id": 49973397, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973397", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "use Chrome on my work Mac (by force)", "excerpt": "I'm curious where you saw the nags in macOS? I use Safari currently at home, but used Firefox for a couple years semi-recently, and use Chrome on my work Mac (by force), and don't recall every being nagged to use Safari.", "context": "", "use_case": "work browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple may soon track when Google promotes Chrome inside Safari"}, {"id": 799561184, "item_id": 49972574, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972574", "by": "ButlerianJihad", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I noticed that my Chrome browser was immediately redirected in the customary way.", "excerpt": "Same here! Yes, I used it as the well-known site that supported unencrypted http and no HSTS. Yes, I was one of those guys using the site \"as a service\" rather than simply documentation. Admittedly, it was perhaps interchangeable with other sites, but since it reliably worked for that purpose, I couldn't be arsed to find other ones. Isn't there a dedicated site called nohttps or something? NeverSSL? I just tried http", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"}, {"id": 798451185, "item_id": 49903199, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903199", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms", "excerpt": "It's about alignment of interests. They believe that there is a business that is valuable selling a user-centric browser. A user-centric browser does not exist today. Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms to run, for example, ad-blocking in the browser and they do so under the name of security. They've already tried to push the web integrity initiative. They'll try again. Mozil", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798326273, "item_id": 49895392, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895392", "by": "pier25", "date": "2026-09-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I use to hear those all the time when using Chrome", "excerpt": "I think those clicks and pops are a Chromium issue. The Spotify desktop app uses Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). I use to hear those all the time when using Chrome and they've mostly disappeared now that I mostly use FF.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"}, {"id": 798153153, "item_id": 49884572, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884572", "by": "ragequittah", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Chrome: inability to block ads", "excerpt": "I always try to parse this \"Mozilla is doing bad\" as I've been using Firefox for years and other than features I want (vertical tabs, firefox relay, and a few other minor things) I couldn't tell you the difference of Firefox now vs 5 years ago vs 10 years ago. And the \"shooting yourself in the foot\" things talked about are always something that pretty much all other browser companies do but 10 times worse. I think th", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798140849, "item_id": 49883803, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883803", "by": "MrJohz", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I still have Chrome around so I can still use these tools.", "excerpt": "If anyone is reading this and sees compatibility as their primary reason for staying with a Chromium browser: I have been using Firefox as my main browser for many years now, and I can count on one hand the number of times where I've been hit by compatibility issues. The big one is anything to do with video calling \u2014 things often work but not as well, or you can voice call but not use video, or something like that. M", "context": "", "use_case": "WebUSB flashing tools", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798139074, "item_id": 49883692, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883692", "by": "yipinwong", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "chrome once in awhile", "excerpt": "nowadays, it's just one thing that catches one's interest that sticks. I use edge sometimes, chrome once in awhile, FF etc. Never do I use brave ever because one incident I forgot about (not about the founder), and it was good enough reason not to go back.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798124096, "item_id": 49882756, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882756", "by": "cauch", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "They use Google Chrome DESPITE the disadvantages of Google Chrome.", "excerpt": "People don't WANT to be abused. This is soooo stupid to pretend it is the case. Simply, people are just making choices and no choice is perfect. They use Google Chrome DESPITE the disadvantages of Google Chrome. And that is exactly why the argument \"people use Google Chrome so Google Chrome cannot have negative consequence\" is simplistic. But more importantly, some of the advantages of Google Chrome only exist becaus", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 798092817, "item_id": 49880801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880801", "by": "vincent-uden", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I can be be bothered to switch from one ad-blocking chrome to another", "excerpt": "Huh, that does look nice. Its been a long time since I used Brave last. Does it do anything beyond ad-blocking over chrome? If not I don't think I can be be bothered to switch from one ad-blocking chrome to another, just to due inertia and my lazyness.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched to Brave"}, {"id": 797753936, "item_id": 49859621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859621", "by": "mystifyingpoi", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the official Chrome (not Chromium) with uBlock Lite and everything works perfectly", "excerpt": "Your experience is strange, I use the official Chrome (not Chromium) with uBlock Lite and everything works perfectly (except the 5s delay at the start).", "context": "", "use_case": "watching YouTube", "switched_from": "", "story": "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"}, {"id": 797107057, "item_id": 49819191, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819191", "by": "BizarroLand", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "last time I installed it on linux it was a pain", "excerpt": "Real question, why go through the hassle to install chrome on a linux machine? I moved away from chrome a while ago, but last time I installed it on linux it was a pain, and firefox and its derivatives are essentially at feature and speed parity or better than chrome across the board.", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system"}, {"id": 796478545, "item_id": 49779909, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779909", "by": "sergiotapia", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "If you haven't browsed the web in a browser like Chrome recently, you should try it in a VM or something. It's GRIM.", "excerpt": "Highly recommend you use Brave Browser and avoid all this nastiness. If you haven't browsed the web in a browser like Chrome recently, you should try it in a VM or something. It's GRIM. The Web is a wasteland and it's gotten worse because ai chatsites are eating their lunch to the ads are even worse than 10 years ago. https://brave.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"}, {"id": 795934208, "item_id": 49745888, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745888", "by": "bcorigliano", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I wouldn't have access to all my bookmarks and everything from chrome.", "excerpt": "I was on mobile, there might be mobile ad-blockers for google chrome I dont know about, but I do not use them. On my pc of course I use adblockers, I'd have gone crazy by now if I didn't!! I could download some browser with adblocking built-in from the appstore but then I wouldn't have access to all my bookmarks and everything from chrome.", "context": "", "use_case": "mobile browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Whoisinspace.com/"}, {"id": 795241088, "item_id": 49702568, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702568", "by": "bel8", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's really powerful. I have been using it in Chrome for a while.", "excerpt": "It's really powerful. I have been using it in Chrome for a while. This is how to enable: chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging", "context": "", "use_case": "agent remote debugging", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}, {"id": 792478704, "item_id": 49529919, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529919", "by": "HaloZero", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The reason I switched to chrome a long time ago was tab isolation, how much faster it was than Firefox, and built it better developer tools.", "excerpt": "What\u2019s the real selling point? Yeah non profit but is it gonna be faster and better than WebKit? The reason I switched to chrome a long time ago was tab isolation, how much faster it was than Firefox, and built it better developer tools. What\u2019s ladybug got going for it?", "context": "", "use_case": "browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Hang on to Your Firefox"}, {"id": 789219040, "item_id": 49326190, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326190", "by": "socalgal2", "date": "2026-08-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I do as I use 3 OSes and want all my stuff synced across them, something I can't do with Safari.", "excerpt": "You'd be wrong. One of six iOS users install Chrome. I do as I use 3 OSes and want all my stuff synced across them, something I can't do with Safari.", "context": "uses 3 OSes", "use_case": "cross-OS synced browsing on iOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"}, {"id": 788968753, "item_id": 49310547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310547", "by": "alt227", "date": "2026-08-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I was horrified at Chromes memory bloat and the fact it puts tabs to sleep.", "excerpt": "I have used Firefox solely for over a decade. Recently I switched to Chrome to see what I was missing. I was horrified at Chromes memory bloat and the fact it puts tabs to sleep. Trying to click through old tabs was an absolute nightmare as it tried to quickly load back each tabs state and memory, and cpu spikes massively causing whole machine slowdowns, blank white pages, and app freezes. People say that Firefox doe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"}, {"id": 788686385, "item_id": 49292899, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292899", "by": "simantel", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ultimately I switched back to Chrome full-time as a result.", "excerpt": "I used Firefox for most of last year. I consistently ran into issues where a form wouldn't submit, or a website would appear subtly broken, but it would work in Chrome. Ultimately I switched back to Chrome full-time as a result.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 788637968, "item_id": 49289873, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289873", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "And yet Chrome\u2019s memory usage has become a meme at this point.", "excerpt": "> I think with as powerful computers as we have right now, you can run almost any browser without performance issues And yet Chrome\u2019s memory usage has become a meme at this point.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 788604785, "item_id": 49287799, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287799", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm currently moving away from Chrome though, as I can no longer use any MV2 extensions", "excerpt": "Depends on what device I am using. Currently Thorium/Chrome, sometimes Firefox. I'm currently moving away from Chrome though, as I can no longer use any MV2 extensions because all the workarounds stopped working.", "context": "", "use_case": "browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What browser do you use?"}, {"id": 786212195, "item_id": 49138262, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138262", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Ublock origin is another thing that no longer works on Google chrome", "excerpt": "> As a journalist, I have used Google News for many years to catch up on topics in which I am interested. Interesting observation. I noticed this a few years ago already, when Google started to kill off Google search. I can give many examples but just a simple one: Google used to cache phpBB webforum conversations. I could even read entries that were available only to people who would log in, which was convenient, be", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now"}, {"id": 776934224, "item_id": 48558389, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558389", "by": "xnx", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Save page, speed, battery life, bookmark sync, tab sync, and password sync are all slightly better in Chrome.", "excerpt": "Save page, speed, battery life, bookmark sync, tab sync, and password sync are all slightly better in Chrome. I used Firefox on Android for probably 11 years before switching to Dolphin (RIP) and then stock Chrome when Firefox made it a huge pain to install extensions. I keep waiting for someone to fully enable extensions on Chrome for Android.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browser", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "I Fired Google"}, {"id": 775576496, "item_id": 48473531, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473531", "by": "vintagedave", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Every time I started Chrome, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything was just slightly faster to react", "excerpt": "For me it's speed. I used FireFox for the same reasons, for years. Every time I started Chrome, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything was just slightly faster to react, to switch tabs, to scroll, to interact. I kept reading posts about how the FireFox team was increasing performance, yet it never seemed to really impact it. Maybe because I often have several windows with a dozen tabs each (yes, one of those people", "context": "", "use_case": "daily browsing", "switched_from": "Firefox", "story": "Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow"}, {"id": 770626704, "item_id": 48164169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164169", "by": "01jonny01", "date": "2026-05-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "youtube on Chrome desktop regularly consumes over 1 gig of ram", "excerpt": "I am glad someone is writing about this youtube on Chrome desktop regularly consumes over 1 gig of ram. Even running it on FF with uBlock doesn't seem to help much. When I use 3rd party yt sites like skipvids.com I rarely go above 300 mb of ram", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs"}]}