Firefox vs Explorer vs Chrome - The real stuff

Doesn't every browser have add-os for that? Internet Explorer 6 also has addons for spellcheck.

 

just to note.. those "useless addons" are actually the "real experience" on why i use firefox.

i can adjust it's design for best functionality, and i can have addons that enhance "the real experience" massively. simple things, like being able to doubleclick a simple www.google.com text-link, and it opens, till adblock, which not only blocks ads, but removes the actual divs with the ads in (=> no blank white squares instead, or such)..

these addons are mainly "the real experience" that makes it so superior to other browsers. they change per user, as each user has other needs. and the ones used most often have a chance for integration into the core in a next version. nowadays, i don't use much exts anymore, as firefox added a lot of those features.

other than that, well, real experience: i got every browser to crash within minutes after installation.. ie8beta once so hard, that it completely killed my win7 beta, made it non-bootable and non-repairable all work well enough for the occasional webbrowsing, but firefox delivers best for a more tight integration of my needs towards webbrowsing.

and yes, i know a lot of exts exist in one form or another in other browsers. but the integrated app store, sorry, addon browser and manager makes it just so easy to find and use them.

 

Ok, everybody is right and everybody is wrong. There's no BEST browser, cause all people have different tastes and different needs. And to satisfy All of those people, there are so many browsers existing.

The end.

 

This always occur to me! Sometimes I can get really frustrated if I write something for an hour. This is the only negative thing I can find about FireFox. I might try this Chrome browser but I'm almost positive it wont be better than FireFox but who knows. I wont judge Chrome to fast.

 

As a developer, yes its the worst. I stopped developing for IE6 and I just use this now. Made my life easier.

http://www.ie6nomore.com/code-samples.html

 

OK...given the above, I re-downloaded Chrome (2.0172.43) and took it for a spin. I noticed two things. First, oddly, the horrible blue colour that was originally on Chrome when I tried it is gone. Now, in some strange way, it matches the Vista (Home Premium) environment that I have. This is strange because, earlier I also had the Vista environment and the 'blue' sported by Chrome was horrible. Obviously something's changed. Maybe you folks can fill me in. Second, Chrome is faster than what I remembered it was OR it has undergone some changes that make it faster - again, perhaps some of you can fill me in on this.

I am keeping it for the moment and will see how things go. Ultimately, I think it will come down to whether I can use Chrome seamlessly with Microsoft's online Office and Skydrive offering and whether I can used everything else with Google Apps (they pretty much work ok with gmail - well except Opera under some circumstances.)

Safari is out as I personally don't like it.

Cheers!

 

interesting, as chrome never was "blue mode" on vista for me since the first public release..

anyways, you know what's better than firefox or chrome or ie, or opera or what ever?

all of them

 

Strange about that 'blue mode'!!! Very true what you said about the browsers - though the fact that some work better than others on the sites and services I mentioned creates a preference for me. Optimally, I'd like to stick to one browser as a main browser and keep one as a backup. But then again, sometimes, they change their operational features and characteristics so suddenly that my own usage-driven priorities also change and then it becomes a headache to track and keep up with all the changes...but then again, who said life was easy!

Edit: CPU usage with Chrome seems to be quite high. With 4 active tabs on - none with any Flash content - the CPU usage is spiking to around 66%!!!!!

 

yeah, my way to go is firefox + ie8 as a backup. works very well.

 

I do it the other way round.

IE8, FF as backup

(I'm no friend of customization, so)

 

It seems most in here are very advanced when it comes to the different browsers. Here is my simple take between the two with respect to my use vs my wife:

I love Chrome and she hates it. I do also use IE8 which she prefers.

My Browsing style: Heavy Googling, Multiple Tabs
Her Browsing style: Heavy History & Favourites

I like the minimal look of Chrome. I use paste and go frequently. I do find the history "page" ackward and the way it handles favourites also ackward but I am not a heavy bookmark/history person. I do not know if it can be changed but I am judging it by what comes out of the box.

Anyone else find Chrome's history handling odd?

 

You're not the only one. I just started using Chrome on my desktop and it's way different than Firefox, which I'm very used to by now. It will take some time for me to get accustomed with Chrome.