Has anyone problems with Chrome lately?

[bizman]

It feels like Chrome keeps freezing for me after about 30 minutes of use. I have to close the browser, and then I have to reopen all my windows again.
Anyone else experiencing this issue?

 

[Martin Everson]

I had this issue once years ago when using Chrome.

I fixed issue then by disabling the below setting:

"Use graphics acceleration when available"

You may just try uninstalling and reinstalling it. Cause of problem could be anything sadly

 

[polonieth]

Use Brave instead.

 

[Martin Everson]

I use Brave too but that's also Chromium based. So if its a problem with a new version of the Chromium Engine (that Google Chrome uses) it will may show up there also at some point also .

 

[Steve3000]

It feels like Chrome keeps freezing for me after about 30 minutes of use. I have to close the browser, and then I have to reopen all my windows again.
Anyone else experiencing this issue?

I use Firefox, Opera and Brave. For searches I use Duckduckgo. Far superior to Google. Haven't used Google search for many years. But I still use Google location/maps when travelling. You have to switch on Location for this.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

For searches I use Duckduckgo.

Sadly, “What most users don't know is that DuckDuckGo doesn't have its own index—DDG is mostly powered by Bing. DuckDuckGo sources the vast majority of its search results from Microsoft Bing.”

Far superior to Google.

Superior in what sense? (Privacy aside)

@Laid Back Llama might give their qualified opinion from SEO perspective.

 

[tacokai]

Has same issue with chrome, following @Martin Everson advise uninstalling and install worked.

 

[Steve3000]

Sadly, “What most users don't know is that DuckDuckGo doesn't have its own index—DDG is mostly powered by Bing. DuckDuckGo sources the vast majority of its search results from Microsoft Bing.”

Superior in what sense? (Privacy aside)

@Laid Back Llama might give their qualified opinion from SEO perspective.

Superior in that you get answers that you need, rather than answers that Google thinks that you need!

Try it out sometime.

 

[Freetrade]

Why use Chrome at all? it's tracking everything.
dump it for Brave, Mullvad browser , duckduckgo browser etc.

 

[marioIT]

f* google really. don't put your life in their hands.
just use it as you would use a bank these days... when you really need it, but don't give them more info than they need!
as someone said here, they track everything. they got caught even tracking and storing your incognito mode data!
happy on brave once I spent a little to set it to my preferences.
some minor issues but I'm fine with it as daily browser.
also chrome is brutally disabling older extensions...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/googl...n-you-think-is-your-old-favorite-on-the-list/

 

[Martin Everson]

I use Firefox, Opera and Brave. For searches I use Duckduckgo. Far superior to Google. Haven't used Google search for many years. But I still use Google location/maps when travelling. You have to switch on Location for this.

I do pretty much exactly the same. I use Brave as first choice. Opera with its free VPN when I cannot get onto some US sites and Firefox when sites break on Brave and I cant be bothered to turn off all the security settings.

Also not used google search since circa 2014 and have been using duckduckgo. Chrome is only kept on my PC last resort or any obscure compatibility issues on some sites.

Has same issue with chrome, following @Martin Everson advise uninstalling and install worked.

Glad it fixed it

 

[Laid Back Llama]

I use Firefox, Opera and Brave. For searches I use Duckduckgo. Far superior to Google. Haven't used Google search for many years. But I still use Google location/maps when travelling. You have to switch on Location for this.

DuckDuckGo results are much more imprecise/spammy than Google results. Many things cannot be found on DuckDuckGo and the results can be easily manipulated.

Ranking in DuckDuckGo and Bing is 10 times easier than in Google, which means it's very easy to manipulate what is at the top of the rankings and even many higher quality results could be pushed down illegitimately.

Also, Google got: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content and https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/hsw-sqrg.pdf

 

[DiForest]

Brave #1 for sure

 

[aniglo22]

Why use Brave (they still have annoying ads + telemetry) ?
Just use ungoogled chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium)

 

[ilke]

Just use ungoogled chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium)

This is a great tip – I hadn't heard of it before but seriously looks great.

Thanks!

 

[diatessaron]

Yes. Purposefully done because Google will sell it's search engine.

 

[Laid Back Llama]

Also not bad: https://mullvad.net/en/browser

 

[polonieth]

DuckDuckGo aren't my choice of search engine. This was their CEO is a now deleted tweet:

"At DuckDuckGo, we’ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation"

And they use Bing primarily.

Just another outfit that thinks it knows what information is good for you.

They were also censoring "COVID misinformation," you know, those crazy theories about it being a lab leak, about masks not working, mRNA jabs interfering with P53, etc., i.e., the truth.

Brave Search is ok, but its results can be pretty sketchy. Yandex is good, but you probably need to approach it from the perspective that it might be biased to the opposite way from Google's.

 

[cckuhqilfownnfctux]

Why use Brave (they still have annoying ads + telemetry) ?
Just use ungoogled chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium)

this. Brave is just another Chrome but selling your data to the different customers, I also advise to use an Ungoogled Chromium instead.

 

[polonieth]

this. Brave is just another Chrome but selling your data to the different customers, I also advise to use an Ungoogled Chromium instead.

The ads are optional - turn them off. You do earn BAT for viewing them, so it's not totally one-sided.

For Telemetry:

• Open Brave and click Menu (three lines) > Settings.
• Navigate to Privacy and Security.
• Find Allow privacy-preserving product analytics (P3A) and toggle it off.

What data are they selling? They don't appear to have any user-identifiable data collected...