It's safe to download, however it all depends upon what you consider 'safe'

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Google isn't know for respecting a users privacy, and have been fined and busted by many governments over their tactics.

They do install a root level updater that updates all their software which many people later have problems with and is certainly questionable as being unnecessary intrusive.

I would say their software is safe, just not your privacy with using anything they have. They give away free stuff to use it to data mine it's users.

If your looking for the most user friendly/choice browser that won't spy on you, then Firefox is certainly the best.

You can customize it, add themes, personas, and tons of add-ons to do just about anything. Some add-ons are available no where else but on Firefox. 🙂

Safest Place To Download Chrome On My Macbook Air Pro

You can see I've modified my Firefox to my tastes above, when the default is the below portion.

Also Firefox can be greatly speeded up with a hack, search for 'make Firefox 10x faster' makes entire web pages load in a flash. Makes Safari look like sloppy seconds. 😉

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Nov 8, 2012 10:22 AM

I have a Macbook Pro I purchased new this summer (2014). I installed the latest version of Firefox in July 2014 and it worked fine for over 2 months. Suddenly, Firefox no longer opens. It flashes like it's opened a window but nothing shows. I created a new user profile and it worked fine on the new profile, and gradually Firefox is having the same problem on each user profile I create. Please help!

Safest Place To Download Chrome On My Macbook Air Louder

I am using OSX 10.9.2In the notifications on my mac, it says I can download an update for Firefox version 32.0.3...but when I click on that notification to do so, it slides back off the screen and doesn't install.