VOGONS


Reply 20 of 22, by zyzzle

User metadata
Rank Member
Rank
Member

What is the last version of Chrome the doesn't silently install this 4gb atrocity? I hate Chrome, but if I'm forced to use it, I'll have to stick with the final version before this crap. Talk about virus-infested. What they're doing is totally illegal and there should be severe sanctions.

At the very least, hackers should be able to denude this crap and offer a de-crapified version.

Reply 21 of 22, by Robbbert

User metadata
Rank Member
Rank
Member

According to Google itself, go to chrome://settings/system and turn off the AI feature. This is supposed to stop the 4GB download and the rest of the AI things.

Seems it was introduced in ver 147, I have the latest ver 148-something, and the file is not on my computer. Perhaps this 15-year-old machine isn't good enough for local AI.

Reply 22 of 22, by UCyborg

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie

Mozilla is a bunch of scumbags. If you want detailed writeup: https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml

Chromium is useless with zero usability features. Doesn't even have native feature to load tabs on demand. It's a browser for phones, not computers. Can't even get this useless piece of shit to connect to local web server through proxy, even with proxy.pac. If I have proxy.pac saying connect to localhost through proxy, that means I set it like this for a reason and the browser shouldn't be disobeying MY decisions. All extension buttons crammed into one corner, zero flexibility for UI customization, most Chromiums out there lock the profile to the machine it was created on, --disable-machine-id and --disable-encryption from Ungooogled Chromium are a rarity. Even with --disable-background-networking, it still opens persistent connection to mtalk.google.com at the very least (unless chrome.dll is edited and that string zeroed out).

And Firefox...constant changes to UI, the only project that made it bearable is dead, uses Skia and consequentially has awful font rendering like Chrome, zero respect for user's ClearType settings, which for some of us means eye fatigue and migraines. It treats user like an idiot. I don't have an option to open the EXE right away, I have to explicitly save it first. Really? Tab Mix Plus is of one of the few surviving extensions (forget the gimped Chromium WebExtensions...). DownThemAll!...dead, Norvell History...dead... And who knows for how long TMP will still survive.

I could go on, but it's not worth my time.

Arthur Schopenhauer wrote:

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.