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Article: Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome
The following was copied/pasted from: http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2015/05/14/why-im-breaking-up-with-google-chrome/
Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome
Most Chrome users can relate to this: you have a bunch of important tabs open, your laptop’s fans start to sound like a rocket taking off, your computer slows to a crawl, and finally it crashes, losing everything.
When Chrome debuted for the first time in 2008 it was the fastest browser on the block. It was light, nimble, extensible and easy to use compared to Firefox, which had become slow and cumbersome...
If you pop open your task manager right now, you’ll undoubtedly see a huge list of Chrome-related processes working away. Google Chrome Helper, one that supports browser plugins like Google Hangouts or Adobe Flash, is notorious for runaway resource usage.
The problems manifest in a lot of different ways – crashing tabs, high CPU usage, memory leaks, general instability, and system lockups.
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May 15th, 2015 10:00
And yet the market share for Chrome continues to inch upward, though IE still commands the lion's share:
venturebeat.com/.../chrome-passes-25-market-share-ie-and-firefox-slip
I've never allowed Google software on my systems, so I can't comment on that article.
Speaking of IE, a while back it had an unpatched vulnerability. Did the latest round of Windows updates correct this?
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May 15th, 2015 13:00
Joe,
Looking through MY posts here, I believe the last UNpatched IE vulnerability I documented was this thread: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/virus-spyware/f/3522/t/19616988
This was unpatched after the FEB updates.
Looking at the corresponding Secunia advisory http://secunia.com/advisories/62658 , it seems this was patched during the MARCH update cycle, as part of MS15-018.
Or was/is there another IE vulnerability to which you were referring?
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Having said this, I should add there's an OLD (from 2013) unpatched vulnerability still around http://secunia.com/advisories/53193/
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May 15th, 2015 16:00
Thanks ky - that Feb vulnerability was the one I was thinking of.
I'm limiting the sites I log into these days (including Secunia). They have no need for my email address, and one less password to remember. Hence my question.
As for that 2013 (still unpatched) IE vulnerability, IIRC it was not that critical. At any rate, I've continued to use IE11 more or less continuously since then, and it hasn't killed my IE yet. And you know what they say about "That which does not kill me ...".
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May 17th, 2015 04:00
Doing things the "right" way...
I located this summary link for IE 11 at Secunia, which indeed shows that the "ancient" 2013 vulnerability is the only UNpatched IE 11 vulnerability (at least, in terms of those reported to/by Secunia: 1 unpatched, out of a total of 19 documented).
https://secunia.com/advisories/product/48391/?task=advisories
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May 17th, 2015 17:00
You could always create a free, throw-away email address on the fly with maildrop.cc If some site requires you, for example, to get a validation code by email to create an account, enter a throw-away maildrop address on the site and then just go to maildrop and log into that throw-away account, collect the validation code etc, and never use that address again.
Nice thing is you don't even have to create the throw-away first. Just make it up on the fly and then go to maildrop to collect whatever gets sent to that address.
BTW: Using different maildrop addresses with different sites will let you see who is selling your email info to whom and how fast. :emotion-5: :emotion-4:
EDIT: Just remember, there are no passwords or any other security at maildrop. So don't use a maildrop address for anything you want to keep private!
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May 20th, 2015 04:00
In the spirit of fairness, here's a article with a ray of hope:
It’s about time: Google vows to fix the worst thing about its Chrome browser
Chrome... has severe memory leak issues that can chew up resources on both your PC and your smartphone... Google’s engineers are very much aware of Chrome’s memory leak problems and are vowing to fix it.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/time-google-vows-fix-worst-thing-chrome-browser-002059004.html