Current Events > What the fuck, Chrome?

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Their latest and greatest update swaps out the side panel icon for a new icon inviting you to get all of your music and videos in one spot. That is to say that they rotate out every 30 seconds or so.

So, while you're clicking away on a message board or watching a video, you have a rotating icon actively calling your attention to the toolbar. It's like watching TV and having an update every 30 seconds that tells you what you could be watching on other channels.

It's pretty inconvenient too since you can't trigger the icon to pop up. It only shows up when it wants to. (Just in case you wanted your music when they wanted you to have it, you can click the icon when it pops up.) And you can't customize the toolbar either. I guess this means I'll be using Firefox as my primary browser instead -- unless somebody has a better suggestion.

<_<

Man Chrome's staff has gotten way to cocky if they thought they could get away with some of the stuff they have been trying.

Gotta get back on that Firefox

Necronmon posted...

Man Chrome's staff has gotten way to cocky if they thought they could get away with some of the stuff they have been trying.

They can though, because the vast majority won't care enough to complain or will actively use it.

Why are you still using chrome?

FortuneCookie posted...

Their latest and greatest update swaps out the side panel icon for a new icon inviting you to get all of your music and videos in one spot.

And where would that "spot" be? Considering the vast majority of the music I listen to in only on CD and isn't on anything streaming or digital.

Guide posted...

Why are you still using chrome?

What should I have switched over to? I do my streaming services on Microsoft Edge and my general browsing on Chrome. That could very well change in the immediate future though.

SkittyOnWailord posted...

And where would that "spot" be? Considering the vast majority of the music I listen to in only on CD and isn't on anything streaming or digital.

I still have CDs, but my car radio is the only device that I can currently play them on.

You need to get back to using this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c6befdc7.jpg
Why anybody is still using shit Chrome in this day and age I shall never know!

Although in saying that I haven't exactly been happy with a lot of stuff that Firefox has introduced or tried to ram down our throats over the years. Luckily there are ways you can turn those things off in Firefox.

FortuneCookie posted...

What should I have switched over to? I do my streaming services on Microsoft Edge and my general browsing on Chrome. That could very well change in the immediate future though.

I still have CDs, but my car radio is the only device that I can currently play them on.

Fuckin' Firefox, like everyone has been saying for years and years!

I just remember why I left Firefox. They changed to a BULKY task bar / search bar.

Did they ever clear that up?

They did, although it was always modifiable to not be bulky anyway. That's like half the point of firefox.

Edge | Chrome | Firefox

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3a66a467.png

It looks like Firefox is every-so-slightly less bulky than Chrome. However, that square tab is an eyesore. It calls attention to itself in both its garish design and its bright white hue matched against a more subtle gray backdrop.

I want a taskbar to do all but disappear when I'm browsing the internet. I can't believe I'm saying this but, visually, Microsoft Edge is the best one.

Wait, doesn't Edge come in black by default, now? Do you purposely switch to white?

I see now that the problem is not with any particular browser.

Can someone please explain what the utter fuck this laugh riot @FortuneCookie is on about?

This is my Firefox:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d4381d61.jpg
I do not understand what he/she is referring to as "bulky"! I think my Firefox looks very nice.

Oh and what sad utterly miserable excuses FortuneCookie have come up with to knock a browser.

I couldn't care less what Firefox looks like as long as they let me have my ad blockers, my themes, my add-ons and care about peoples security unlike the fucking shit Chrome who do not give a shit about their customers, only care about making money, do not care about peoples security and only care about ramming ads down peoples throats.

Christ, croft, what crawled up yours?

Guide posted...

Wait, doesn't Edge come in black by default, now? Do you purposely switch to white?

I see now that the problem is not with any particular browser.

It matches your system theme

Anyway

1. Firefox
2. Edge
3. poop
4. Chrome

theres no reason to use anything other than Firefox or Edge. Edge is actually decent, at least until manifest 2.0 or whatever where adblockers will break

the only thing I really miss moving from Edge to Firefox is vertical tabs and auto-browser logon/sync

Rika_Furude posted...

It matches your system theme

Anyway

1. Firefox
2. Edge
3. poop
4. Chrome

theres no reason to use anything other than Firefox or Edge. Edge is actually decent, at least until manifest 2.0 or whatever where adblockers will break

the only thing I really miss moving from Edge to Firefox is vertical tabs and auto-browser logon/sync

Whut about Oprah?

lol

FortuneCookie posted...

However, that square tab is an eyesore. It calls attention to itself in both its garish design and its bright white hue matched against a more subtle gray backdrop.

Then change it? FF is customizable.

Here FortuneCookie have a look at this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/39a73875.jpg
From here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/

Seeing that it really does boggle my mind how anyone can use that utter shit joke of a browser in Chrome.

Even the once derided and laughed at Microsoft browsers are more secure than Chrome.

As you can see by that all Google care about is money and ramming ads down peoples throats.

I get around chrome updates by having an outdated OS

CassandraCroft posted...

This is my Firefox:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d4381d61.jpg

I don't want a tribute to Lara Croft. I want a toolbar / browser bar that doesn't call attention to itself. I want rounded edges on my tabs, not these ugly square blocks.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b07b0fb4.png
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/32cbfab7.jpg

Guide posted...

Christ, croft, what crawled up yours?

That post was the epitome of this dead meme:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cf981c65.jpg

CassandraCroft posted...

Here FortuneCookie have a look at this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/39a73875.jpg

Thanks.
But by this point, the government already knows my kinks.

Of fucking COURSE Chrome is shit too.

Everything I use, watch, read, play, or interact with in any fucking way is or becomes shit.

I'm honestly fucking sick of it at this point. Can't I just have ONE thing that doesn't shit itself?

I finally gave up on Chrome last year, just using Edge now and it's fine

Using Chrome in 2024 for anything but mandatory professional reasons is a fools errand. They are the new Internet Explorer.

Quorthon109 posted...

I finally gave up on Chrome last year, just using Edge now and it's fine

I prefer to have my streaming services on their own browser so that I don't have to worry about reentering passwords when I delete my browsing history.

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Gotta get back on that Firefox

Still use it

It seems like they've stopped rotating out the music symbol on the task bar.

That thing about data harvesting though... Maybe I could use Firefox for my porn / secret plans to become world dictator by 2040. <_<

If I try to use Firefox, they'll just shit the bed too because that's the fate of EVERYTHING I use, apparently.

Mystereave posted...

Of fucking COURSE Chrome is shit too.

Everything I use, watch, read, play, or interact with in any fucking way is or becomes shit.

I'm honestly fucking sick of it at this point. Can't I just have ONE thing that doesn't shit itself?

Bro, things change.

Chrome is just another.

FortuneCookie posted...

Edge | Chrome | Firefox

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3a66a467.png

It looks like Firefox is every-so-slightly less bulky than Chrome. However, that square tab is an eyesore. It calls attention to itself in both its garish design and its bright white hue matched against a more subtle gray backdrop.

I want a taskbar to do all but disappear when I'm browsing the internet. I can't believe I'm saying this but, visually, Microsoft Edge is the best one.

F11

I use Opera.