This + moving SSL certificate details dialog hidden away into devtools + no way to disable NaCl + chrome 56 auto-re-enabling flash and widevine on every launch (which shows a click-to-enable-flash everywhere chrome55 would just use a html5 video player) + the upcoming background tab throttling means I'll be seriously reconsidering firefox or safari before the next Chrome release :-/

This kinda post reminds of these posts decrying how bad things are with x and a threat to do y, eg: move to Canada.

And the punchline is always a soggy: "I'm seriously reconsidering".

Post would be much more effective if you just switched already, and discussed your experience having done so.

It's hard to reconsider firefox or safari because they are also very much anti-user. Maybe a fork of firefox/chromium without all that anti-user stuff would be better, with plugins only click-to-play, with no autoplay for animations, with a quick way to toggle javascript in a tab, etc. But there is no such fork.

Could you elaborate on some anti-user stuff that Firefox and Safari do? I'd like to know. I do consider Firefox comparatively more open than Chrome though, so I may have my biases.

Not OP, but I tried both FF and Safari recently hoping they would reduce the footprint. FF ended up being way too slow. I stopped using Safari after a few minutes because they decided to not show favicons on tabs anymore and you can't enable it at all. How is anybody supposed to find the right one of the 15-20 tabs that are open. Insanity!

> I stopped using Safari after a few minutes because they decided to not show favicons on tabs anymore and you can't enable it at all.

On Sierra, you can reenable favicons with MySIMBL [1] and SafariStand [2].

[1] https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL [2] https://github.com/anakinsk/SafariStand