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When I encounter those things, I actively search out the companies that are advertised and don't buy anything from them. I also can't stand cpu-hogging Flash crap. However, when they start bouncing, flashing, wiggling, playing, or getting in the way of my scrolling, I block them.

I don't mind web-ads as I understand that is the way things stay free. If you are a web developer and want to know what we like or dislike, here you go: While it is no longer supported, it works great. You mentioned some utility in blocking flash with Chrome, but I have that and more in ClickToPlugin. Much of the hype was about how fast it was, but I didn't see any difference.įrom the reports (Activity monitor, EtreCheck) I've seen here, it seems to be quite a hog. Browser choice can often be more of a personal preference, or a result of the advice of someone else, than any technical reasons that people can actually cite.ĭo you have specific things that you do not like about Chrome?

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Until about 2 years ago I used Safari as my primary browser on my Macs, but honestly, I now use Chrome on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux because it's lean, clean, offers consistent rendering, and works great.ĭo you have specific things that you do not like about Chrome? As a web developer I am always interested in folk's preferences for a paricular browser. In 2014 there are finally many great choices of modern browsers (Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Opera, IE 10, Safari).

I have used every popular browser available, on many OSs, since the Web was in it's infancy (i.e. The same thing could happen to a Safari or Firefox extention as well. Realistically, the same abuse of auto-update is possible on EVERY 'app store' or auto-update mechanism in use today regardless of browser or platform.

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If you don't like Chrome just because of the extention issue that was reported several months ago (where a developer leveraged auto-updates to install malware), then you should reconsider. It has a modern rendering engine (excellent HTML5 support), very secure (Google pays for bugs and patches them rapidly), it has great sandboxing to rein-in plugins, has auto-updates including Flash, has 'click-to-play' plugin security, and works with any OS (Mac, Win, Linux). Yes, Macs are certainly an extremely safe platform, but layered security is important for everyone nowadays.Ĭhrome is an excellent browser. One last recommendation to keep Mac fans safe would also be to use a browser like Chrome and turn on 'Click to Play' for all plugins. I work daily with many Macs and PCs and havn't missed Perian (or Flip4Mac for that matter) at all since I uninstalled it over a year ago and replaced it with VLC Player. Therefore, I would highly recommend that anyone still using Perian on their Mac remove it, and then just install the highly trusted and well supported VLC Player instead ( ). Java, Flash, etc.) have zero-day exploits nearly weekly now, there is simply no way to trust that an unsupported plugin will stay secure for long. When even actively developed plugins with very large budgets and support (i.e. The problem is not that anything is know to be wrong with it, but that EVERY browser plugin is a potential security threat - including Perian. But, once it was discontinued I immediately removed it from them all. I loved Perian and installed it on many Macs over the years.

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However, any software that is no longer supported, in particular one that integrates with browsers, should be avoided.

Perian was certainly great while it lasted.

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