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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync by lostmyoldone on Monday September 24, 2018 @09:10AM (#18057336)
Read in another HN comment just the other day that the slowness was because they used some obsolete only-in-chrome shadow DOM API which "polyfilled" on all other browser, which if true sounds exactly like pulling a Microsoft.

I haven't verified it myself and I couldn't find a reference with a quick search, so while it sounds plausible, it would be great to havd a credible source to refer to.

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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync by the_duke on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:40AM (#18058068)
This is not necessarily malicious though.

Probably some in-house framework they use that happens to use this old browser API. And they haven't gotten around to fixing it.

Of course it's also reasonable that nobody is pushing a fix up because it works fine on Chrome and that's what Google wants us to use.

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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync by tumetab1 on Monday September 24, 2018 @09:19AM (#18057384)
Some kind of reference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18053935
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