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Chrome 42 Launches With Push Notifications
An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched Chrome 42 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with new developer tools. Chrome 42 offers two new APIs (Push API and Notifications API) that together allow sites to send notifications to their users even after the given page is closed. While this can be quite an intrusive feature for a browser, Google promises the users have to first grant explicit permission before they receive such a message.
So after all the problems with malware-ridden popups and other unwanted crap Google gives us this?
Sure, there's no way it's going to get abused. Or cracked.
I can't think of a single reason why I would use a browser with google's snooping technology baked right into it.
Can we go back to the web being "Hey can I get your page at site.tld/page.ext ?" and "Sure, here is what you asked for, and not an entire cart of horseshit jammed in with it, alongside it, or after it! Thank you for visiting our website, valuable reader / customer!"?
Push technology was one of the hottest buzzwords going c. 1997-1998.
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What "crap" are we talking about here?
Chrome didn't make Mozilla botch the switch to more frequent releases of Firefox. Mozilla did that on its own.
Chrome didn't make Mozilla ruin Firefox's UI. Mozilla did that on its own.
Chrome didn't prevent Mozilla from finally fixing Firefox's long-standing memory leaks and poor performance. Mozilla has avoided those fixes on their own.
Chrome didn't even cause Firefox's market share to drop from around 35% to 10%. Mozilla caused that by itself, by shitting upon Firefox users over and over again.
Chrome didn't cause Mozilla to spin its wheels with useless, unwanted shit like Firefox OS, Persona, asm.js, and all of their other failed projects. Mozilla did that on its own.
Mozilla has royally fucked up time and time again. Chrome didn't cause them to fuck up like that. Mozilla did it on their own.
Oh great, so if I stumble on a page so full of crap that I decide to backtrack the hell away, the site can still shove notifications in my face, even though I clearly don't want that content? Yeah, I have to explicitly allow it, that's awfully nice of them. But how long will opting out last when the advertisers realize they can force a few more eyeballs? Is there another browser out there that hasn't been bloated to death with "features"? I jumped from Firefox to Chrome when they started churning versions, but Chrome just jumped the shark by doing the same thing.
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And that's why I use neither firefox nor chrome (and definitely not IE). It's really annoying that selecting a browser is no longer getting one which is the best, but rather picking the one which is the least worst of the lot. For a long time I was a firefox user, but after Australis, that just did it for me, but what I replaced it with, has big problems too, but at least the UI is easy enough to use.
Youtube is the only google product I use.
Java is Broken in Chrome 42. Totally. There is no way to run Java in the browser, at all. In any way.
Trying to run any Java app results in this: http://i.imgur.com/Imuxmay.png
There's a ticket open here:
https://code.google.com/p/chro...
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Way back in the day when Microsoft was unleashing IE onto the world, everybody howled that they were introducing new IE specific things for websites to be able to provide, eg ActiveX. Now it seems that google is doing the same thing with Chrome. In both cases the idea is to take ownership of the web...
The web was perfectly fine until the mid-2000s, when the San Francisco crowd got their hands all over it. It has been all down hill since then.
I'd like to quote from a famous song, "We Built This City", by artists Jefferson Starship. This song captures the essence of what is wrong with the web today.
That sums up exactly what's wrong with Chrome, Firefox, and the web of today. When I look at Firefox or Chrome, I don't recognize their UIs any longer. They are difficult to use for anyone who isn't a rotten hipster. When I use Firefox and Chrome, I don't "recognize their face".
Like this submission shows perfectly, both Chrome and Firefox are "knee deep in the hoopla". They're all about buzzwords like "push notifications" these days.
Firefox is very clearly "sinking in its fight", with the "too many runaways" referring to the victims who have had to flee it and the awful changes that Mozilla has victimized the Firefox user community with.
It's getting to the point where I don't even want to use the web any more. I just want to do dances like the mambo, or even listen to the radio.
That perfectly describes the games we see with Google, Mozilla, Opera and even Microsoft. The web today is all about corporate shenanigans. Just look at all of the talk recently about Microsoft and IE and Spartan and of that jazz. They're all playing "corporation games", indeed!
While some of us just want to dance with the web like we used to, before it all went to hell, we have these browser vendors telling us that we need these push notifications and advertisements. They have written us off of the (web) page!
As normal people wanting to browse the web, we have lost the beat, thanks to the choke hold put on us by the browser vendors these days. It's all about the money, and anything having to do with the web that isn't about the money swiftly gets the wrecking ball.
The web was once the greatest creation that humankind had ever managed to build. But as quickly as it arose, it was torn down by greed, avarice, and shitty browser user interfaces.
And as those great musicians sang:
That's what we need to remember. We can't ever forget it.
Does your iPhone violate Canadian law as well? It too has push notifications.
Make no mistake, I will disable or somehow block this "feature". But seriously - You can't really whine too loudly over your favorite free and not-default-on-any-platform program suddenly including a feature you don't like.
But they will. Look at all the impotent whining above over an insignificant change made to Firefox more than a year ago.
People will cry, and cry loudly, over any stupid little thing.
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Lately the middle button in Chrome has been deprecated, and it doesn't do what it says on the tin. Sometimes I middle-click on something and the page just begins scrolling, for example Youtube videos (even when not yet loaded!) especially in G+, which is a place you especially don't want to scroll accidentally. Also, image galleries which are probably hosted by google are just coming up as a slideshow in the current tab instead of opening a new tab. Google reserves the right to change the behavior of Chrome only for their sites, and up yours.
I wouldn't use Chrome at all, but some Google sites sometimes only work properly in it. Youtube is the primary example. Sometimes a given resolution will choke in Firefox, sometimes in Chrome, and there's no apparent rhyme or reason to it.
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I use SeaMonkey which is the descendent of the old Mozilla suite.
Its got all the same web engine stuff as Firefox does but it doesn't have the crappy UI or some of the other "unwanted" crap from Firefox.
Yes, push is great for mobile devices. Because you can close the application and put the device to sleep, and you can still get notifications. That said, even on my phone, the browser does not have this. Why would it? Push is for things like messaging programs, so you can get messages without keeping the device awake and using battery. For computers? Not a chance. There is ZERO reason to have this on desktop PC's even for things like IM programs.
You are complaining that you have to turn something off which is disabled by default. You just told everyone you prefer being upset to being well-informed, and that is not very becoming.