So I've been an avid Firefox user for several years now, but I'm seeing a lot of ads and such about Google Chrome. People seem to like it, so I'm looking to get more information out of it.
So a simple enough question: what does Google Chrome provide that Firefox with its thousands of apps does not?
This isn't meant to be a debate thread, I just want some honest feedback on whether or not it's worth moving to Chrome.
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It also has excellent extension/userstyle/scripting support, and it's based on WebKit, which is a much more reliable rendering engine than Mozilla, in my opinion.
Firefox just seems to have gotten clunkier and more bloated with every revision, while Chrome gets faster and more streamlined.
I can't hear you, Morlock.
Are there no Chrome equivalents for any of those?
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Meanwhile, for Paste and Go in Chrome, just follow these simple instructions:
So clearly Chrome is the winner here, because why bother with built-in Paste and Go when you can install a third party program and grab your own script from someone on the Internet? Heck, that's even better than Firefox, which only makes you download a single extension!
Snark aside, just try both. I didn't really understand why anyone would bother with Opera until I got curious one day, tried it, and realized that it did everything I wanted in a browser without fiddling around with extensions. In the rare case that something wasn't intuitive, I would just Google "X in Opera" where X is what I wanted to do, and the solution would usually pop up. In Firefox, the solution is generally an extension, and before long your browser is sucking up a gig of RAM and performing badly. In Chrome the solution is generally "Chrome doesn't really do that."
Chrome has add-ons too, I'm pretty sure its got webmail + no script covered. In fact most major addons for Firefox now have their own thing for Chrome as well.
If you select [X] Don't load tabs until selected (general options) in FF8 aurora it will start up very quickly if you keep a lot of tabs open to restore like I do.
What I prefer about FF is that I find it more stable, keeping stuff that I type in text fields even if the browser is closed or if I press the back button, more extensions etc.
Chrome is a bit speedier in opening tabs/opening itself and has neat things like allowing extension installation without restarting the browser.
Firefox really improved over the past half year with the new speedy releases.
I have some extensions I love (Echofone, AniWeather).
I vastly prefer Firefox's UI over Chrome's.
SO GOOD.
It's so much faster than Firefox.
Oh Google, you may be taking over the world but if the world runs as fast as your web browser than I'm A-OKAY with that.
;3
This sounds incredibly useful, since I always have a handful of tabs open that I like to resume later. How do I enable this option?
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And I hate using Opera. The interface is so awful
and it can't eve control click right, screw you opera.
Both of these statements are very true. I limit my extensions in FF/Chrome/Safari to little more than a dictionary, Stylish/Userscripts, and not much else.
Chrome is about the only thing that won't grind a netbook to a halt though. Firefox just chokes on my better half's netbook when sitting on Javascript heavy sites like Facebook and G+ all day. IE is better, but it's still a problem on those sites.
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I haven't had this problem on IE or anything else, so I'm trying to figure out how to fix it on FF's end.
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A bunch of patches hit in 7 that improved memory management a lot. I don't know if those changes included more frequent garbage collects, but that could be one possible issue.
I believe 7 also got some DirectWrite patches, so in theory the interface should run smoother on graphics cards that support it. The changes made there might not be playing well with your graphics drivers.
I don't know for certain either of those are the issue; that's just what comes to mind. Also make sure it's not an issue with one of your extensions.
- Super fast.
- address bar searching
- conjectural page loading
- incognito browsing
- no clutter
Sure, Firefox goes fast(ish) if you remove all the extensions, but then you're running a barely-functional shell of a browser. In which case, you're still better off using something else, IE9 included.
Edit: to be fair to Firefox, the jump from 3.5 to 4 made for a serious improvement. It just happened a couple of years too late.
The big 3 are going to have better compatibility on websites anyways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
That is all.
Also still wondering if there's a way to fix the sluggishness of Google Instant.
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IE is going to be an outlier on anything there simply because the windows shell is basically IE with some executable html pages (HTAs) thrown in there, so be weary of any results on IE to say the least.
Yeah...I like it. I like it quite a bit. It's faster, has several of the big apps that Firefox had (like an all-in-one mail notifier), and I was able to find an extension for automatically playing YouTube at 1080p, something I could never pull off in Firefox. Even has an Xbox Live notifier, which should really come in handy.
There are a couple of major things missing though, most notably the search bar. I loved being able to type something and pick from a list of search extensions (Amazon, Wiki, etc). Chrome has extensions that install on the side, but that's a more cluttered alternative.
Also missing is the ability to customize this forum with its classic look with a user script.
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Once you've used the address bar enough you usually only have to type a few characters for the site you're looking for to come up ("am" is enough for Amazon to come up, then I can hit tab to search or enter to go to the site).
Userstyles should let you install what is basically a small Chrome extension that will style the site, and I believe there is a Stylish extension for Chrome.
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Click on this, then click on "install as user script" link in the green box.
Literally two clicks to make the new forums look more like the old ones.
Chrome.
Thanks for that. Wasn't sure if user scripts worked with Chrome the same way. :^:
I still want the search bar from Firefox.
Also, is there a way to have re-opened websites auto-refreshed when reloading Chrome? This is something that bugged me with Firefox.
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1. Chrome doesn't seem to allow dragging pictures to a separate program (namely Photoshop); there's a Photoshop extension that seems like it would come in handy, but again, can't drag pictures to it.
2. When I download something, it displays the most recent download on the bottom screen until I close it. I'd prefer it didn't show this pop-up at all.
3. Is there a way to customize the toolbar so that the tabs and the address bar switch places (in other words, tabs are at the bottom, address bar at top)?
4. Does Chrome have a group tabs feature like Firefox?
5. In Wordpress, I can't seem to resize an image by manually dragging it like on Firefox.
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