I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux. Turns out many people actually use Linux for the user experience and flexibility, and not for privacy.
I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.
I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.
So for now I’ve swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium’s RAM usage stays sane.
So what? Most people are using Linux for the privacy benefits. Does privacy sound like a good reason to use Chrome?
I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux. Turns out many people actually use Linux for the user experience and flexibility, and not for privacy.
I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.
So for now I’ve swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium’s RAM usage stays sane.
Really? I’ll admit to being shocked as well.
citation needed
“Linux users shall not be using Chrome” Sir Isaac Newton.
“Thou shalt not use the Chrome, unless thou wantst be hung from yonder tree by thine ballsack!”
Leviticus 13:37
Ok. Wait 1 week, if I haven’t provided the citation … wait another week. 😍
I use Linux for work and our company requires chrome to view Google Docs and such
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It does but theirs a certain auth plugin/security setting they enable that only works with chrome