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dasein wrote:

kcbagr wrote:The purpose of the poll is to not find out how many people do not use Chrome or Chromium, but to learn (of the people that use Chrome or Chromium) which is used more.

With an N of 14...

(Poll is even more flawed than previously suspected.)

If you don't like it, then don't participate in the thread. It's not for you to determine the information he's interested in gathering.

kedaha wrote:I use Firefox which I would've preferred to have gone on as Iceweasel

Have you seen https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xul ... l-branding?

The .deb installs fine in jessie

@OP: my Debian systems use Chromium but Chrome is installed for certain sites that will not work otherwise.

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Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

kedaha wrote:I use Firefox which I would've preferred to have gone on as Iceweasel

Have you seen https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xul ... l-branding?

The .deb installs fine in jessie .

Thanks for that; the package had gone beneath my radar. Installed.

Somebody please explain to me exactly what's wrong with establishing a discussion to compare/contrast/prefer chrome-chromium to the exclusion of any and all other browsers?

Plenty I suspect, for those neurotic, passive aggressives feeling compelled to announce their opinion on any and everything.

I use Firefox but I have Chrome on my system for the occasional site that doesn't play nice with Firefox. That is quite rare these days with Pepperflash available to Firefox.

Why Chrome rather than Chromium? Long time ago but I think it had something to do with Google Translate.

This is a little off-topic but I did try Chrome when in China last year. The Chinese government's hate job on Google has extended so far that Chrome simply won't work at all in China. Connecting to government and even semi-government web sites using Chrome from outside China is also a fail. Since I need to do this occasionally and my wife does it often, Chrome really isn't an option any more.

So, for now count me as one vote for Chrome, but that vote doesn't imply I'm a user. In fact, I'll probably get around to removing it one day.

I have recently (in the past year or so) been noticing a worsening situation with overall browser compatibility on the web. It's gotten to the point where I need 2 browsers to effectively see everything I want to online without jumping through hoops to get things working all on one. I use some of the free Google services, so it's Chrome for me, but I also now keep one workspace devoted to a Firefox session with a few things I simply cannot accommodate with Chrome any longer.

acewiza wrote:I have recently (in the past year or so) been noticing a worsening situation with overall browser compatibility on the web.

I thought it was just me and my ad blockers.

I use mainly Firefox, but it IS great, that Chrome is also available in Debian.

With Chrome I can watch Netflix and Viaplay movies. Really great to be able to do that in Debian.

Also Chrome is good to have, if you want to translate web-pages to your language, although I think that works in chromium too.