Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by pishpash on Saturday September 22, 2018 @05:27PM (#18048092)

Syncing Chrome across devices has long rendered the point moot. If you wanted syncing you were already logged in to the browser. If you didn't want syncing, there was no reason to use Chrome.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by 0x0 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @05:47PM (#18048193)

I don't want syncing but I still appreciate a good web rendering engine with frequent security updates. So you're wrong.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by Razengan on Saturday September 22, 2018 @11:35PM (#18049255)

If you’re on macOS, Safari is quite capable at each of that.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by inyourtenement on Saturday September 22, 2018 @05:44PM (#18048179)

Chrome is not the only browser to do syncing, and syncing is not the only feature of Chrome. This comment makes no sense.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by giancarlostoro on Saturday September 22, 2018 @05:45PM (#18048185)

And yet Firefox has sync too.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by vxNsr on Saturday September 22, 2018 @09:28PM (#18048922)

I'm actually kinda upset at firefox, because I wanted to switch, but when I tried the syncing (from one firefox instance to another) it didn't seem to work for like 90% of my bookmarks, history, passwords so I kinda gave up.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by pastununtrium on Sunday September 23, 2018 @03:59AM (#18049970)

Firefox and Firefox focus come with the anonymous stats tracking enabled. That kinda pissed me off, but as long as that’s the only thing they are doing to track, I’ll move back to Firefox over chrome happily.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by giancarlostoro on Sunday September 23, 2018 @05:30PM (#18053362)

You may like to know that it is encrypted on their servers, and if you lost your password, resetting your password nukes all your data. So I don't mind letting Mozilla host the contents.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by jasonjayr on Saturday September 22, 2018 @06:26PM (#18048335)

But you can sync w/ your own server, with a little extra work.

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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by giancarlostoro on Sunday September 23, 2018 @05:30PM (#18053357)

I didn't mean it as a bad thing. Firefox's sync features are encrypted.

In fact, if you reset your password you lose all your sync data as a result[0].

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ive-lost-my-firefox-syn...

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