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Tag: chrome

  • I Tried Chrome-based web browser Thorium for 1 week—and it sucks

    I Tried Chrome-based web browser Thorium for 1 week—and it sucks

    What’s the purpose of Safari (macOS) or Edge (Windows)? To download Google Chrome. This joke has been around for a while, but despite being a joke, it’s kind of true. My statistics collected with Simple Analytics (I recently wrote an extensive review about it) always show Google Chrome on top, usually followed by either Firefox or Safari.

    In the case of this blog, the #2 browser was Microsoft Edge, which, as you may know, is based on the same engine Google Chrome uses. Then I stumbled over a fork of Chrome, the open-source browser Thorium. A week later, I uninstalled it.

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  • Reddit Double-Refreshing in Chrome and macOS? It’s AdGuard. Here’s the Fix

    Reddit Double-Refreshing in Chrome and macOS? It’s AdGuard. Here’s the Fix

    Okay, I admit, this one is probably a case that only applies to myself, but you never know. For a few weeks now, Reddit has been annoying me by reloading every page I am on—sometimes even twice. By tediously eliminating all extensions and plugins one by one, I eventually found the culprit—a simple checkbox in AdGuard’s settings security settings.

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