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Baidu
#21939844 - 07/13/15 11:08 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I switched web browsers
I know, many of you use chrome, you think it's great and fast and shit others of you use firefox, I was using firefox and it was good under XP but I've now been cursed with windows 8 on a package machine and firefox crashes more than chrome did for me on XP, I didn even bother on this machine because I hate chrome
anyway, this girl I've been talking with for the last 6 months said I need to try Baidu Browser and I blew it off for the last 4 months because I didnt think it was worth a shit since it was based on the Chrome engine
for the last 2 weeks I've been fucking around with it, I havent restarted it even once, I havent had a single crash, it's faster than both chrome and firefox even with 4 windows with more than a dozen tabs in each, it has a built in download manager, a bit torrent client and I dont know if it's because the servers I happen to be downloading from are faster or it's the browser but the fucking downloads are blindingly fast for me, a 2gig d download would normally be a couple of hours under firefox and they're 10-2 minutes with Baidu
it also has a built in snip/cap tool and a host of other features, all the extensions for chrome that I've tried also work with Baidu, I am thouroughly impressed with this shit
try this shit, you may find it to be better http://en.browser.baidu.com/
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XiaoYi
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Hi Prisoner,
I use Chrome and never really had a problem with it, but I'm definitely going to give this browser a shot. I didn't know much about Baidu until I began studying Mandarin Chinese, but ever since I've been a fan. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
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Cynosure
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Re: Baidu [Re: XiaoYi]
#21940032 - 07/13/15 11:51 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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..based on the same code source as Google Chrome (but an older build, I believe).
Less secure (from a company known for privacy issues), more spyware/adware bundled and shoddy user download techniques, uglier interface with less screen space, and built-in extensions that you may not need (but could get elsewhere if you did need them with other browsers--and, really, do you want a bittorrent client built into your open, insecure browser?).
I believe the only thing I've read that has been good regarding Baidu has been the speed on Android devices.
Your download speed should have nothing to do with the browser your using, but rather the server it's connecting to and your own connection. For an example, downloads from a web server in Chrome may be only 2MB/s but in Steam they may be as high as 5MB/s--this is because Steam has superior servers and user management due to traffic.. not because Chrome is a worse client than Steam.
I'm not even sure I've seen a browser that doesn't have a built-in download manager?
I'm pretty sure Baidu/Spark looks almost exactly like Chrome but has extra tool bars. Where does your hate for Chrome fall into play? Is it an issue with Google?
What are the specs of your machine? Going from XP to Windows 8 makes it seem like you've been out of the game for quite some time.  ..and what exactly are you saying you like about it? You like that it comes bundled with extensions? How are you measuring this "faster"-ness?
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Edited by Cynosure (07/14/15 12:04 AM)
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I had had chrome running 24/7 for at least a month. My only complaint is that it eats a lot of ram. How much do you have? I have 16GB and if I have a lot of tabs open (15+) chrome takes up like 6gb
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Gottaloveacid said: I had had chrome running 24/7 for at least a month. My only complaint is that it eats a lot of ram. How much do you have? I have 16GB and if I have a lot of tabs open (15+) chrome takes up like 6gb
Might want to look into that. Are you using a recent version? Can you give an example of what websites you might be browsing? Chrome is surely a memory hog (for good reason), but those numbers seem excessive.
I can play full-length movies in two windows, and have 15 tabs of YouTube videos open (playing), along with the multitude of Shroomery/research tabs I have open (yes, I just tested) and it still doesn't hit 6GB. Have you tried using the built-in task manager to see what tabs are causing the trouble?
If it's still an issue, you could look into memory reduction techniques/disabling some of the pre-rendering/duplicate processes that other browsers don't feature for security/stability and still come out with a top-notch browser.
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404
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I'm not buying it, it's obviously chinese malware with a name like "Baidu"
Pris i knew you were a government agent, i just never thought it was the chinese government
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Prisoner#1
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Cynosure said: Less secure (from a company known for privacy issues), more spyware/adware bundled and shoddy user download techniques, uglier interface with less screen space, and built-in extensions that you may not need (but could get elsewhere if you did need them with other browsers--and, really, do you want a bittorrent client built into your open, insecure browser?).
security is something you make, no browser is secure, I've had no experience with adware or spyware from this browser in the last foew moths of tinkering with it and a few weeks of solid use
I'ma level with you, I dont use bit torrent because I'm not a fucking retard, might as well download from mediafire or mega if I were going to torrent shit but there's a lot of people here that do use torrent clients
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Your download speed should have nothing to do with the browser your using, but rather the server it's connecting to and your own connection.
allocation of resources
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What are the specs of your machine? Going from XP to Windows 8 makes it seem like you've been out of the game for quite some time.  ..and what exactly are you saying you like about it? You like that it comes bundled with extensions? How are you measuring this "faster"-ness?
the specs arent important, I didnt build a game machine, it's retail box to run autocad for work, as for what I lie about it, I've pretty well spelled it out in the original post, stability and speed, that speed measured by my own observations downloading files from specific servers, again, it was already touched on above
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id like to see some video's of you browsing the web on each browser, and a stopwatch to time it all, preferably while naked, anything less would just be uncivilized
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Prisoner#1
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I never claimed to be civilized
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all the flash versions are "vulnerable" so all youtube video's are unwatchable on the shroomery
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Cynosure said:
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Gottaloveacid said: I had had chrome running 24/7 for at least a month. My only complaint is that it eats a lot of ram. How much do you have? I have 16GB and if I have a lot of tabs open (15+) chrome takes up like 6gb
Might want to look into that. Are you using a recent version? Can you give an example of what websites you might be browsing? Chrome is surely a memory hog (for good reason), but those numbers seem excessive.
I can play full-length movies in two windows, and have 15 tabs of YouTube videos open (playing), along with the multitude of Shroomery/research tabs I have open (yes, I just tested) and it still doesn't hit 6GB. Have you tried using the built-in task manager to see what tabs are causing the trouble?
If it's still an issue, you could look into memory reduction techniques/disabling some of the pre-rendering/duplicate processes that other browsers don't feature for security/stability and still come out with a top-notch browser.
Most of the time, I have 2-3 videos buffering along with tons of tabs full of hd pictures, pdf's, pandora streaming, and then just a bunch of other random tabs open \
When load gets heavy, it usually means I have open a lot of tabs with huge pictures on them, like 20 or so.
Each tab seems to be taking up like 50-100mb of memory each
I don't mind it taking up memory, and I have actually found that when I have other memory intensive programs open (namely games that take up 4-5gb each) that chrome eats up less and less of my memory.
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fwiw i use FF on win8 and i never crash. sure you got the latest versions of everything and updated all your windows shit?
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Re: Baidu [Re: 404]
#21940199 - 07/14/15 12:42 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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404 said: fwiw i use FF on win8 and i never crash. sure you got the latest versions of everything and updated all your windows shit?
he said he built it, maybe he left a screw out somewhere
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Pale moon is the best browser I've ever used :3
Firefox optimized for 64x and stripped down in all the right ways - sleek - fast - but beefy in ways that matter, in dev etc. It's damn good.
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Prisoner#1
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makaveli8x8 said: all the flash versions are "vulnerable" so all youtube video's are unwatchable on the shroomery 
kick youtub and adobe in the balls for their stupid shit
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makaveli8x8 said:
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404 said: fwiw i use FF on win8 and i never crash. sure you got the latest versions of everything and updated all your windows shit?
he said he built it, maybe he left a screw out somewhere
It is pretty easy to build a computer, don't think you could do anything physically to the parts of a computer to cause only google chrome to crash
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twighead said: Pale moon is the best browser I've ever used :3
Firefox optimized for 64x and stripped down in all the right ways - sleek - fast - but beefy in ways that matter, in dev etc. It's damn good.
my problem with it on this machine is that it crashed constantly
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twighead
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Well... dang!
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Srirachi
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It's irritating as shit when you're as right as you are with this post
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Prisoner#1
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the one with the junkie video.... yep.
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I don't have any Urb videos.
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