Opinions : FireFox Vs Google Chrome

For the most part I react to people still using FF the same way I'd react to someone using Mosaic.

 

does anyone know if there is an equivalent to flashgot on chrome?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashGot

 

People literally still use a laptop with a Pentium M as their main computer, in 2011?

Wow.

 

i gave my old pentium M vaio to my girlfriend's mum. she loves it

 

Hmm... I don't know about you but I don't even show any emotion when I see people using IE7. This is the same reaction I have when I see people using old Pentium's. Respect for old school, I guess.

To the original poster
Firefox is snappy. Chrome is snappier. At least for me..
I would suggest you use both.
I find it convenient to stay logged in to 2 accounts anyway.
Cheers.

 

I'm using both FF and Chrome.
I love how in ff we can modify the settings in about:config
some settings can make it become faster and faster

 

I like Chrome over Firefox but I'm stuck with FF for now since it integrates properly with Internet Download Manager (IDM) with the extension.

If anyone knows a good download manager for Chrome that also lets you download Youtube/Flash videos then please let me know!

 

My main computer is a desktop (and the Acer I suppose). I very rarely fire up the Latitude these days.

If superior, newer, laptops were available for free I'd surely get one, though - much like how superior software to Firefox is available for free. Firefox is more of a quaint curiosity these days and in my experience is usually the result of an inexperienced user having it recommended when the alternative was IE6.

 

I still FF better despite its relative sluggishness compared with Chrome simply because it memorizes the webpage name when I type a keyword in the URL field.

 

I dislike Chrome for various reasons. I like FF much better.

 

I don't know if it matters but this forum doesn't play quite right in Chrome. Unless the header is supposed to be all crowded to the right...

 

Browser Addon - ClipConverter.cc
blah.. its for chrome ff and safari

 

my headers fine.

 

3 machines, 2 win7 and 1 XP all do the same thing here.

 

I cannot see the purpose of this comment?

I have decided people commenting on different browsers I have given Chrome a go.

I have to say I do like it. I have been using it for an hour and it is using more memory but it hasn't been a "major" issue. I like it.
I decided to try it has people gave good comments about it. Constructive comments are useful.

I think like everything, Its about personal preference.

 

you're clearly not bright enough to have found the addons site.

try reloading the page from the server

 

Yeah, personal preference - except at this point preferring Firefox after using it alongside other browsers seems more about some imagined grudge than actually finding Firefox more useable. With every update FF tries harder to emulate Chrome, while being slightly worse in nearly every regard.

 

I just dont see that myself?

So where does IE9 come into the equation?

 

IE9 tries to emulate Chrome but actually does a great job of it -- it's why IE9 is such a great browser now.

EDIT: And just to clarify, you will get more memory usage tab for tab with Chrome. Or at least, you "should" but Firefox often still trumps Chrome for some reason. The reason Chrome uses more tab for tab is because they're all sandboxed and separated processes. This also means that when you close a tab you regain almost all of that memory back instead of having garbage RAM in use.

 

i get that with chrome as well, ie and ff are fine

 

I'm curious - has anyone compared battery life on FF4 vs Chrome?

Figure out your idle discharge rate, then open up FF4 with 5 tabs and see what the discharge rate is, then do the same for Chrome.

I guess you could also do the above with/without hardware acceleration on the browsers - would be interesting to see the results.

On another note, FF5 is scheduled for release on 21 June and from what I've heard it should feel slightly faster.

 

Glacius, I believe Microsoft did a comparison a while ago with Chrome 9. IE9 had the best, firefox after, chrome after, opera after.

This is because, at the time, IE9/ Firefox had the best GPU acceleration. Chrome 12 and Opera 11.5 should have some HW acceleration now as well.

 

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I love the smooth operation of Chrome but that's really about it. I like to devote as little real estate to the UI as I possibly can, and FF allows me to have everything in a single bar, nice and clean. The full page functionality in FF is also better. Plus Chrome's bookmarking system is a pain compared to FF.

 

firefox 5 out
Firefox 5 slips out ahead of schedule, gets official June 21st -- Engadget

 

I was a long time Firefox user up until i tried Chrome, never looked back since.

Love it.

 

ditto.

Firefox's latest UI seems to be a bad implementation of 'imitation is the highest form of flattery'.

The only thing Firefox still has on chrome (ever since I switched at least) is bookmark management. Other than that, there's nothing that I can't do on chrome that FF can do. And chrome does it faster

 

I'm loving chrome more and more, same reasons MAA83 listed.

On FF5... wow, that was a really quick update. Sad to see no GUI improvements this release... but I'll update and cross my fingers that they fix the sync problems that have been occurring, because that feature is amazing!

 

I've been using ChromePlus recently and just installed FF5 to see what it was like.

As things stand, they're about even in my eyes, both have advantages, both have disadvantages.
I'm really torn, neither one does everything I need.

When I use FF, I miss the Google Instant implementation of Chrome and the extensions that link in to Android apps.
When I use Chrome, I miss downthemall, TabMixPlus and FF's immensely superior version of AdBlock+.

If anyone can make suggestions to help me solve the shortcomings of each browser and thus make a decision overall, I'd very much appreciate it.

 

Like you said, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. The Adblocker for Google Chrome is indeed inferior to FF. I knew because when watching a youtube video on someone's channel, I would consistently get advertisements. The Google Instant Implementation is unique to Chrome, therefore not available for FF.

Here is how I look at it:

Do you want a growing, helpful, intelligent, community that continually develops amazing addons?

Or do you want the speed, stability, and fast release cycles that Google Chrome has to offer?

 

Can't I have both?

 

You can have both browsers installed, yes. Its not like an anti-virus where if you have two it will cause your system to become slow.

That's why I have both installed.

However, I primary use FF due to the superior ad-blocking abilities (waiting for FF 8 for it to fix the memory leak issues and make it 20% faster than the current version, practically matching the speed of chrome).

None is better or worse than the other so you can't go wrong with either.

 

I meant both in one program.

On balance, I would happily sacrifice the Android integration ( I only use one Chrome-specific extension that ties into Android and I could easily live without it) and the perceived faster speed of Chrome is I could only have the Google Instant.
Equally, I could live with the poorer ad-blocking and tab management if Chrome only had a download manager/accelerator to match downthemall.

As I said before, if anyone can offer up any suggestions to either of those conundrums...

 

You can use a host file for adblocking.

 

People who use adblock always have some strange reason for insisting it's a superior solution to an ad blocking hosts file.

 

In terms of simply blocking ads, it probably isn't.
But I'm not familiar with using a hosts file and it's easier.

But once you combine AdBlock+ with the Element Hiding Helper in FF, you can start to re-model webpages to hide the crap - great for sites like Engadget.

 

Firefox, and will always use firefox.

 

I just like how simple and clean Chrome looks/works and little things that make it so cute and convenient.

An address bar that acts as search bar and accurately suggests sites I might be looking for as soon as I enter the first letter, plus a bookmarks that can be pinned the the bookmark bar and/or the traditional drop down menu.

And sync settings/saved user names/passwords as simple as entering your gmail account.

Only problem I have with it is some websites does not support it, but that doesn't happen much and I can always use IE when it occurs.

 

I like what FF did with the pinned tabs.

Lets say you visit Facebook, Youtube, NBR, and Gmail every single day. Well now, you can pin these websites as tabs to the left side of your browser and they are automatically loaded for you as soon as you start FF. Quite convenient I must say and it does not take up a lot of space.

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i used firefox for the past 4 years, but after firefox 5 came i coudlnt find an addon that makes links clickable so i switched to chrome.

i like chrome alot better than firefox, the page loading speeds is faster, opening and closing the browser is faster, and being able to type what i want to search for into the address bar is a very nice feature.

 

Ya. I can search using the address bar too.

(FF5)

 

Well, both Opera and Chrome do that exact thing as well

 

Please share how you can pin tabs to the left of your browser and they are automatically there, preloaded for you for the next time you start the browser.

 

I have Chrome just re-open whatever was open when I closed it. Pretty much the same thing as pinned tabs.

 

Got it, was messing around with Chrome and found out they had it before FF.
I was surprised that nobody talked about this feature, its very convenient and better than bookmarks since they automatically load.

 

Notice the pinned Facebook, NBR Forums, and Gmail tabs, which will automatically be brought up if you set startup behavior to restore the previously-opened tabs (alternatively, Opera allows you to save the tabs open in this session at any point in the future, all at once, so you could restore a bunch of pinned tabs if you choose to do so).

Also notice tab stacking--the UCLA Gateway tab is on top of half a dozen other UCLA tabs, which can be expanded by double-clicking on that tab (or by using the arrow to the right).

For that purpose, I use Speed Dial.

 

How do you activate tab stacking and where is the option to open previousily opened tabs? I cannot seem to find them.

 

In Chrome it's on the 'Options - Basic' page....