Chrome
5 recommend 14 criticize 4 moved to it 7 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“Tons of people switched from IE6 to Chrome”handoflixue, 2026-07-08original comment ↗
“dragging works in Chrome and Safari.”oneeyedpigeon, 2026-06-29original comment ↗
“I switched from Firefox to Chrome out of desperation and it worked without a hitch.”wwizo, 2026-06-19original comment ↗
“chrome dev tools worked far better”m-schuetz, 2026-06-10original comment ↗
“multi-process was transformative”Zak, 2025-12-17original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“the big G that's running the browser with most market-share (Chrome)”mentalgear, 2026-10-29original comment ↗
“I switched from Chrome to Safari about 5 years ago and can count the number of websites I’ve had issues with on one hand, I think.”lobf, 2026-10-13original comment ↗
“I was shaking my head when my fellow developers, and some hackers, moved from Firefox to mostly Chrome.”Gud, 2026-08-15original comment ↗
“Some time after IE6 and Firefox and before Chrome, the default policy switched from "prompt" to "accept".”za_creature, 2026-08-02original comment ↗
“I recently switched from Chrome to Edge after using Chrome for decades. It is so bloated and slow.”running101, 2026-07-31original comment ↗
“I've switched from using Firefox and Chrome to Firefox and Waterfox”englens, 2026-06-17original comment ↗
“I moved from Chrome back to Firefox”Jordan-117, 2026-06-09original comment ↗
“Chromium-based browsers like Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, and Chrome each have their own Sync service, their own closed and non-interoperable standard.”ponchale, 2026-05-10original comment ↗
“What OP complained about are even worse in chrome.”freehorse, 2026-05-05original comment ↗
“Just like using ungoogled-chromium instead of chrome, lineage os instead of oem android, using vscodium instead of vscode is again justified.”RandyOrion, 2026-05-03original comment ↗
“device owners aren't allowed to just import/export cookies from mobile Chrome.”EvanAnderson, 2026-03-31original comment ↗
“debugging is much more comfortable than in the browser”flohofwoe, 2026-03-09original comment ↗
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Hackers moved from Chrome to
- Chrome → Edge (2 hackers)
- Chrome → Firefox (2 hackers)
- Chrome → Safari (1 hacker)
- Chrome → Vivaldi (1 hacker)
- Chrome → Waterfox (1 hacker)
Hackers moved to Chrome from
- Firefox → Chrome (3 hackers)
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