Jeannie":o68d2flr said:
I am content with using firefox as my web browser for my mac. However...there is something I want to do that will only work if googlechrome is the browswer. I have created a website from smugmug (a site that allows photographers to upload images) and my client wants paypal added to his website. So...to do this ...I am told from an expert on smugmug that the googlechrome browswer must be used as it has the capability to attach links to smugmug website. Before I take the plunge of using googlechrome as my browswer for this particular job....are there pros and cons to this browswer? I was considering just using it for this one job of setting up paypal on the website and afterwards...returning back to using firefox as my web browser
Your thoughts?
Chrome is essentially Google spyware masquerading as a browser. Everything Google does is for but a single purpose, and that is to gather information about the user for future advertising/marketing and other purposes. The "expert" is partially wrong about their assertion: it is possible to add PayPal to nearly any site without special browsers or extensions -- the developer of the Chrome plugin did so through coding, but in order to make this process easy for people he or she opted to create a simpler Chrome plugin to handle the gruntwork of coding PayPal into a site that uses SmugMug.
It is not a problem to keep more than one web browser in one's application folder, and you don't have to change your default browser (in this case Firefox) in order to use another one for a particular job. In order to accomplish your goal, simply use Firefox to download a copy of Chrome, and use Chrome to install the needed plugin (cancel any requests by Chrome to become your default browser; it will probably ask you each and every time you launch it ...).
Then, simply remember to use Chrome to implement the PayPal coding into your website via the extension.
HOWEVER ...
If you'd like to use the Chrome-exclusive extension without all the "tracker-ware" that Google's Chrome comes with, the alternative browser Vivaldi (built by the people who originally built Opera) works with Chrome extensions, as does the current version of Opera (which is even more privacy-focused). I'd suggest you give Vivaldi a try first and see if it will do the job for you. Again, remember to decline any and all dialog boxes that offer to change your default web browser.
