Google Chrome
Google's web browser for desktop and mobile, built on the open-source Chromium project.
Liked for speed and battery life,12 reliable support for web standards,3 and features like seamless page translation.4 The most common complaint is Google's control over web standards and the browser itself, including the end of Manifest V2 ad blocking,56789 followed by reports of glitches and memory problems.101112
Why people recommend it
Speed · 2
Commenters cite speed as a reason to choose it, and one says Chromium browsers beat Safari on battery and performance.
“For Chrome the speed was probably the biggest factor”
“otherwise something like Chrome, Edge or Brave just makes more sense.”
Standards support · 2
Seen as working with web standards where Safari sites are partly broken.
“Chrome at least works for any web standard which IE did not.”
“otherwise something like Chrome, Edge or Brave just makes more sense.”
Fast cert revocation · 1
Chrome revoked compromised CA certificates in 1 hour 40 minutes, faster than Mozilla and Apple.
“Google Chrome revoked these certificates in 1 hour 40 minutes”
Page translation · 1
You can switch languages without reloading the page, unlike in Safari.
“In Chrome you can switch back and forth between languages seamlessly”
Daily driver · 2
Some use it every day for years and for routine testing.
“Android, Maps and Chrome I use it almost daily for years.”
“that those tests take longer than Firefox and Chrome, my daily drivers”
uBlock Lite works · 1
One user says official Chrome with uBlock Lite works perfectly apart from a 5-second startup delay.
“I use the official Chrome (not Chromium) with uBlock Lite and everything works perfectly”
Caveats and dissent
Web dominance · 3
Commenters say Chrome dominates the web, overrides standards efforts and drops features like DANE, JPEG XL and XSLT.
“The reason we don't have DANE support in browsers is of course because Google decided not to implement it in Chrome”
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“Chrome is putting a big red button on any site using XSLT.”
Ad blocking limits · 3
The end of Manifest V2 is seen as Google slowly removing ad-blocking freedom.
“The death of manifest v2 is the 2nd to last nail.”
“Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms”
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Stability and bugs · 3
Users report glitches, out-of-memory issues, buggy printing and audio pops.
“I am shocked how glitchy it is in comparison”
“I see significant out of memory issues with chrome on a regular basis.”
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“which is extraordinarily buggy in both Firefox and Chrome”
Privacy and trust · 3
Some distrust Google with privacy, and one notes a fingerprint that survives incognito mode.
“With what Google has been doing to Chrome”
“on chrome based browsers, the fingerprint survives even in incognito mode.”
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“I do not trust my local chrome installation to just manage my passkey.”
Enterprise management · 1
Managing it at work means juggling GPO policies and Google Workspace cloud settings.
“Currently Chrome is a bit of a mess to manage in enterprise”
Linux install · 1
One user found installing it on Linux a pain.
“last time I installed it on linux it was a pain”
Often compared with
14 moved from Firefox to Google Chrome
31 moved from Google Chrome to FirefoxOn the home page's DebatesSafari128 comments mention both
6 moved from Google Chrome to Safari
6 moved from Google Chrome to BraveMicrosoft Edge48 comments mention both
7 moved from Google Chrome to Microsoft Edge
5 moved from Google Chrome to Vivaldi
2 moved from Google Chrome to ungoogled-chromium
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“We've investigated and found the bug”
“I used to maintain Chrome's image decoders”
“We tried a few times.”
Threads where it came up
- Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent 40 mentions
- I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla 15 mentions
- Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome 14 mentions
- Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO 13 mentions
- Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? 12 mentions
- Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo 12 mentions
Also written as Google Chrome. Data: google-chrome.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 44
“Chrome just doesn't support them yet”
“Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks”
“Android, Maps and Chrome I use it almost daily for years.”
“My current chrome reports no at https://one.one.one.one/help/”
“which is extraordinarily buggy in both Firefox and Chrome”
“It seems even more embarrassing if chromium got the patch but Chrome didn't.”
“Selenium/Chrome drive the 'WOBBOT' crawler”
“When activated in chrome, nesting currently works, but somehow breaks events.”
“nothing feels the same”
“Right now, I'm using Chrome, and I see the "Relaunch to update" button waiting for me to press it.”
“chrome for google stuff”
“soon returned to Chrome”
“The reason we don't have DANE support in browsers is of course because Google decided not to implement it in Chrome”
“Google Chrome revoked these certificates in 1 hour 40 minutes”
“Of course Chrome bulldozed this effort as well”
“Google Chrome is a fine example of this happening right now.”
“Chrome is putting a big red button on any site using XSLT.”
Are you sure about that? Wouldn't that make the HDR example look bad in Chrome? The source image is 16 bit. https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/#lossy---hdr
“ordinary websites you visit in your android chrome browser”
“the work to port stuff like Chrome’s UI shell simply hasn’t been done”
“With what Google has been doing to Chrome”
“I do not trust my local chrome installation to just manage my passkey.”
“while Chrome works fine”
Well, first nothing that apple says should be taken at face value, especially when it comes to the web. But if you're not inclined to educated yourself via the tremendous resource I shared, I suppose you could look at https://wpt.fyi to see how far behind safari lags in supporting features. There's also the fact that a proof of concept port of Microsoft edge to IOS significantly outperformed safari. https://www.there
“twice as much CPU during YouTube video playback than even Chrome”
Why not uBlock Origin Lite for Safari? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698
“measure the differences between the various versions of firefox and chrome”
“why the market dominance of Chrome is such a big deal”
“Currently Chrome is a bit of a mess to manage in enterprise”
Google Chrome launch comic for nostalgia: https://scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/ Also good context for why the launch of Chrome was such a big deal.
“that those tests take longer than Firefox and Chrome, my daily drivers”
“The death of manifest v2 is the 2nd to last nail.”
“I see significant out of memory issues with chrome on a regular basis.”
“In Chrome you can switch back and forth between languages seamlessly”
“Chrome for accessing google owned properties and things I click on from Google search”
“i also have have chrome installed as some websites are so buggy otherwise”
“at work, I use Chrome like everyone else”
“I keep an instance of Chrome open for tabs that I never really close.”
“I am shocked how glitchy it is in comparison”
“it's still not quite equal to Chrome for Youtube 4k playback”
“Chrome at least works for any web standard which IE did not.”
“otherwise something like Chrome, Edge or Brave just makes more sense.”
“Google Chrome is a frog-boiling exercise where they slowly take away freedoms”
“For Chrome the speed was probably the biggest factor”