Browser - Avira

[Phil]

I have only used FF over the years and avoided IE, Chrome etc.

My AVP is Avira (free version) after Avast totally peed me off.

Avira have now launched their own browser based on a Chrome platform, stating better security.

http://www.avira.com/en/avira-scout-cam ... ervices=17

I am reluctant to move, just overly cautious maybe.

Anyone here maybe had a look at it or used it?
Anyone use Chrome? What is that like in terms of security and functionality?

Thanks. :?

 

[justaskin]

Hi Phil

Cant comment on the PC, the Mac version has never let me down. YET??

 

[Mike G]

I used to use Opera, but that started to misbehave. Firefox got out of synch with Yahoo, my email provider at the time, so I had to abandon that too. Nobody, surely, uses IE. So, I ended up with Chrome, although I hate the Google company with a passion (I use DuckDuckGo as a search engine.......try it). Chrome works fine, but next time I have to do anything major with the computer I'll swap back to Opera or give Avira a try.

 

[Rod]

I use Firefox and MS's own Windows Defender

Rod

 

[chataigner]

Firefox and AVG on win 7 - no problems except FF occasionally hangs due to scripts in ads. Not often enough to be a real problem.

 

[Phil]

Thanks guys for the comments.

At this stage will stick with FF.

Firefox and AVG on win 7 - no problems except FF occasionally hangs due to scripts in ads. Not often enough to be a real problem.

It is just annoying when it hangs, I have on occasion had to "kill" it and re-boot.

 

[Woodbloke]

Chrome on the iMac, much faster than Safari - Rob

 

[RogerS]

But a real memory hog.

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[TrimTheKing]

Chrome kills my Mac inside a day if left running. It has monumental memory leak issues which a close and restart every half day resolves but it's very poor coding by Google to allow it to continue.

In terms of performance as a browser, when freshly opened it like it.

Cheers
Mark

EDIT : just to give numbers, I have 32GB RAM in my iMac and Chrome will consume 28 of that over the course of 24 hours if left open.

 

[Woodbloke]

Chrome kills my Mac inside a day if left running. It has monumental memory leak issues which a close and restart every half day resolves but it's very poor coding by Google to allow it to continue.

In terms of performance as a browser, when freshly opened it like it.

Cheers
Mark

EDIT : just to give numbers, I have 32GB RAM in my iMac and Chrome will consume 28 of that over the course of 24 hours if left open.

So I've quit Chrome and gone back to Safari, but not being a 'pooter nerd, what difference am I going to see?- Rob

 

[TrimTheKing]

There's nothing wrong with Chrome Rob, other than on my machine it shows to be badly written and leak memory. I leave my machine running 100% of the time, if you shut down in between uses then you're unlikely to see this behaviour.

Which OS are you using now on your iMac? I am still on Lion which while old and needing an upgrade, gives me a lot of tools for monitoring memory use etc. I was talking to one of the Genii in the apple store a few weeks ago and he said the newer OS's (El Capitan and Sierra) are taking this away as they don't want users poking around in there. El Cap still has some memory/resource visibility tools but Sierra removes these completely, which I feel is a particularly poor way to go…

To answer your question, I wouldn't expect you to see any change in terms of Chrome/Safari in day to day use, but by the same token I'm not advocating you need to stop using Chrome, it's fine.

Mark

 

[Woodster]

I've been using Safari ever since it came out and have never had any issues with it. I do have a copy of Firefox somewhere but only tried it a little and couldn't see any advantage. Sadly there are some "tools" missing in later versions of OSX like being able to securely erase free space etc. I think it can still be done but only on command line level which I don't normally mess with.

Our iMac is nearly 7 years old now and is slow at times so we're looking to get a new one when the new models come out later this year hopefully.

 

[Woodbloke]

There's nothing wrong with Chrome Rob, other than on my machine it shows to be badly written and leak memory. I leave my machine running 100% of the time, if you shut down in between uses then you're unlikely to see this behaviour.

Which OS are you using now on your iMac? I am still on Lion which while old and needing an upgrade, gives me a lot of tools for monitoring memory use etc. I was talking to one of the Genii in the apple store a few weeks ago and he said the newer OS's (El Capitan and Sierra) are taking this away as they don't want users poking around in there. El Cap still has some memory/resource visibility tools but Sierra removes these completely, which I feel is a particularly poor way to go…

To answer your question, I wouldn't expect you to see any change in terms of Chrome/Safari in day to day use, but by the same token I'm not advocating you need to stop using Chrome, it's fine.

Mark

Thanks for that Mark. I'm using OS X Yosemite which seems to work fine with Chrome but I don't leave my iMac on all the time. It's on all during the day (natch) but it gets switched off at night so I guess it's running for half the time that yours is.
I've found that my Ax account is geared up for Chrome with a two tier security regime. I have to plug a little widget into a usb port to enable my Ax Google account, which works with Chrome but not on Safari and for that I've got a series of pass codes to enter. Every time I clean up the iMac (delete cookies, trash, downloads etc) I have to reuse the widget - Rob