What's with battery life and Chrome? And what's that about no privacy at all?
PRIVACY:
Well, it's Google, the fact that it's an advertising company hurts it in this regard, as does its track record.
By default, Chrome sends everything you type in its address box to Google servers—even before you hit Enter, if you have search prediction on, which is the default., and it strongly urges users to sign in to an account that personally identifies them.
Then there's this:
"First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s
Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.
It was designed to support Chrome’s new 'OK, Google' hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission.
'Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room,' said Rick Falkvinge, the Pirate party founder,
in a blog post. 'Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by … an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.'"
BATTERY:
http://blog.getbatterybox.com/which...energy-efficient-chrome-vs-safari-vs-firefox/
TL;DR "If you're MacBook user, you're losing an average of 1 hour of total battery life by using Chrome. Firefox is a little better, but Safari is the clear winner. You'll want to use Safari if you want to get the most battery out of your laptop."
) so I wondered if there were other measurable benefits to sticking with it besides preference.
