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Grumpy Old Geeks

27: By-products of a Lifestyle Obsession

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2013

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Meandering through the twists and turns of this weeks news and events the guys hit on many absurdities and curiosities until ending up somewhere completely unexpected. Please visit http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/27 for the show notes for this episode. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

All right!

0:08.0

Coffee old peaks, two old thoughts, like a microphone, as the internet, want to go wrong?

0:18.7

Man, Google Chrome, what the hell happened to that thing?

0:22.2

I did an update this week, and it just completely screwed the pooch now.

0:27.0

I cannot believe it.

0:28.3

Oh, that's actually really bad news, because as I've been talking about, I wanted to finally

0:33.0

make my switch over from Firefox, because it's pissing me off so much, and now you're

0:36.8

telling me, I can't even go to Chrome.

0:38.9

You can, but what it used to have for me is when I'd open the browser, there were the

0:44.6

eight panels of my most recently visited sites, or my most frequently visited sites.

0:49.8

Now what they've done is they've made those icons much smaller and put in a giant Google

0:55.6

search above it.

0:57.6

And they used to be able to tile back and forth and go to your app space if you ever

1:01.8

use that Google or the Chrome app store, which nobody does.

1:06.5

Now they put it in your link bar, which takes up space, and you can't get rid of it.

1:11.5

I hate it.

1:12.5

It's just they're moving, they're pushing, you're pushing, you're using more of their

1:15.6

crap, and I don't want that.

1:16.6

I just want the browser.

1:18.3

And you can't go back to Firefox, because Firefox is terrible, and so far it's got a bunch

1:24.1

of problems.

1:25.1

What the hell is it?

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