The forget? So you'd rather have a browser that overcomplicates things and requires more work to do what you want, rather than something easy and automated?
You can simply do so many more things on Firefox. Chrome restricts you in so many ways, both for users and developers. Firefox is open-source (i think), it lets you customize almost anything you can think of and a few extensions can pretty much revolutionize the entire user interface. Firefox was made for people that can translate various webpage development languages to figure out what websites are doing in a organized manner.
I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure chrome wasn't built around letting developers add anything they want to extensions. Even so, once you install an extension, you have to agree to the parts of chrome that they use, e.g manipulating settings, using microphone or changing themes. If an update has gone out that changes the permissions, you can simply deny it from running.
This is the main thing that turned me off from Chrome. I found out, that it's hard coded into chrome, that the only way to disable auto-updating of add-ons was
-Go to developer mode
-Get some ID code that looks like something you'd get out of getnonsense();
-Navigate around some folders, depending on your OS, you may need to tinker around with some permissions.
-Go to some Chrome framework folders
-Find the ID number in the folder
-Go to the file
-Find a few short lines out of what it seemed to me as a wall of text
-Modify them a bit
-Repeat for
every single add-on you want to disable auto-updating on
In chrome, it is stupidly easy for extension developers to get absolutely any information they want. They update the add-on to include malicious code, run it for a day and remove it. No one will be the wiser. This includes, but is not limited to as far as i've heard, keylogging, forcing password hashes etc.
Chrome is
the playground for a malicious developer who knows what he is doing. This is caused by the same kind of ignorance, that lead to the 2013 black hat attack on cloudflare. People have ignorantly ignored crucial, but easy steps in security, which caused their servers to be Open DNS Resolvers. You could spoof your IP to be your targets, send a ping to the server and it automatically responds to the target with large packets. This let the twats achieve a 50x incrementation.
If people would stir even a little bit over this massive security breach waiting to happen, Google would fix it up.
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