Google's Chrome Browser Used More Than Firefox

[AstylahAthrys]

As someone who has used Firefox, Opera and Chrome...

WOOT! *pops champagne* Good job, Chrome. I love that little browser. Minimal and fast. Makes me happy.

 

[Aprilgold]

Which is understandable, the general opinion through most of the Internet is that Chrome is faster and more stable than Firefox.

Fire Fox still has the glitch to where if you shut it off, it confuses for it being crashed, and then you have to restart your computer to use it again. Which is terrible.

I love Chrome more then Fire Fox, the Fox for me is only around because K12 doesn't want to allow Chrome to be used, and only for porn.

Is there any reason to go to Chrome if you're perfectly content with Firefox?

Using Firefox I'm perfectly happy with how things run. I don't experience anything that I would consider to be slowness or crashes. I'm able to bring up my favorites in tab form with ease.

I'm of the mind that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Its much smoother and much cleaner looking. It has everything the Fox has and just improves it. Main reason to get it is for that fact alone, also is much more crash repellent, just because you haven't, you haven't seen anything yet.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Maybe if firefox would get its god damned shit together i would use it again. Seriously i don't want to wait 5 minutes for my browser to load.

Never had that issue. Huh.

I had it a while ago but Mozilla patched it within a week. It was frustrating when it happened though.

Since then Firefox hasn't let me down so I continue to use it today.

 

[Grant Hobba]

We sure did.

 

[chadachada123]

The thing is that Firefox for most people works great...until they let it get filled with useless stuff and don't purge it occassionally.

One of the easiest things to do, really, is mark the essential add-ons that you love, uninstall Firefox, and then install it again. Get those add-ons back. Viola, instantly using half the memory that it used to.

Chrome doesn't have those problems, but it also isn't the same type of customizable that Firefox is. I can see why one would be preferred over the other (for either case) but I wouldn't claim either to be objectively better (or at least permanently so).

We can all agree that Safari and Internet Explorer blow ass chunks though.

 

[bluegate]

As long as people stop supporting IE, whether it is 6, 7, 8 or 9, I am happy.

As a little hobby, I like to tinker around with CSS/HTML a bit and god damn is IE a *****. It is just ridiculous to see browsers such as Safari, Chrome and Firefox rendering a page one way and IE saying: You know what, fuck the CSS standards, I make up my own shit!

Seriously, I wonder if the people at Microsoft make it a point to be as different as they can be... I am sick of having to do dirty CSS "hacks" and jumping through hoops to have a page render properly on their crappy browser.

If you ask me, all the websites out there should prompt people using IE with a message:
The browser you are using is deprecated, for your convenience and internet experience, please upgrade to a one of the following browsers.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

I do have to say, I'm getting fed up with Firefox lately. Telling it to restore a previous session, which I swear used to be pretty quick, now takes forever for just a few tabs and freezes up the browser the whole time rather than just letting me access whichever tab loads fastest. Freezes up whenever I download a file, too, since the Downloads window takes forever to load the list of previous downloads. The whole app is really not optimized at all in any way. Plus now YouTube's video player doesn't buffer anymore, making it impossible to watch anything that loads even slightly slower than it plays (which at my connection speed is everything).

But Chrome is just... ugh. Doesn't have an address bar that searches my history for matches, doesn't have hardly any add-ons, doesn't have a separate search bar that I can add custom sites to. Plus I suspect that business with YouTube is something they did on purpose to coax me into switching. Meteors to that, I say! I use Internet Explorer (9) to watch YouTube now, and it seems to do the job fine. I have noticed a tendency to crash when it encounters other Flash bugs, though, which is pretty hilarious. Oh, Explorer. Never change. (I don't mean that literally, of course. Please do stop sucking ASAP.)

As long as people stop supporting IE, whether it is 6, 7, 8 or 9, I am happy.

As a little hobby, I like to tinker around with CSS/HTML a bit and god damn is IE a *****. It is just ridiculous to see browsers such as Safari, Chrome and Firefox rendering a page one way and IE saying: You know what, fuck the CSS standards, I make up my own shit!

Seriously, I wonder if the people at Microsoft make it a point to be as different as they can be... I am sick of having to do dirty CSS "hacks" and jumping through hoops to have a page render properly on their crappy browser.

If you ask me, all the websites out there should prompt people using IE with a message:
The browser you are using is deprecated, for your convenience and internet experience, please upgrade to a one of the following browsers.

Hate to stomp all over your rant, but speaking as a professional Web developer, I have never noticed IE 8 or 9 not supporting standard markup or style code. If anything, the problems I encounter ? once I look them up ? are due to the other browsers supporting nonstandard code I used by mistake. IE is actually pretty strict about that. Are you sure that's not your problem?

 

[RicoADF]

And rightly so. Firefox has been a clunky mess since its second year, and continues to run purely on adopter fervor.

Just look at the trends in the graph. While most of chrome share is coming from ie, there is an obvious downward trend in FF as well-- with no sign of abatement.

Once you go chrome, you never go back.

My browsing habits typically involve 30 browser instances with 5-10 tabs each. Firefox and IE both fail miserably under this type of load, and the restore functions of chrome put both to shame in the event of a crash.

And Opera beats all 3 on both accounts. I have 20 tabs open no issue and fast. The rare time it does crash it recovers instantly back to where I was.

 

[Arafiro]

I find chrome far too slow and poorly designed to use.

I run Firefox 3.6 and it's considerably faster, even for loading google.com.

 

[bluegate]

Hate to stomp all over your rant, but speaking as a professional Web developer, I have never noticed IE 8 or 9 not supporting standard markup or style code. If anything, the problems I encounter ? once I look them up ? are due to the other browsers supporting nonstandard code I used by mistake. IE is actually pretty strict about that. Are you sure that's not your problem?

As I said, I tinker around with stuff as a hobby so I wouldn't have the experience that somebody has that does this kind of thing for a living. And thus, it could very well be my problem.

I haven't done anything in a long time but this is something that I remember from the last time I did something:
Why is it that IE takes the liberty to render the content of the ALT property in an IMG tag as a TITLE if you hover over the image? Neither Chrome, Firefox nor Safari do this.

 

[Skizle]

<-Only person on the planet who doesn't like Chrome.

You are not alone. I can't stand how bland it is, and no bookmarks button? Personally Opera is my choice. looks like chrome but is actually good at being an internet browser.

 

[Panayjon]

I like Chrome a lot... BUT I keep on having an issue with it. The Chrome browser just does not like large files. Half the time I'm downloading a zip or a rar, the download will just crap out on me. Until they fix that, I'm staying with Firefox (although I haven't checked back in a while, maybe its time for another test drive).

 

[ph0b0s123]

The main reason that chrome will never get my custom even if a bit faster, is that with Noscripts I feel confident my Firefox won't be subject to drive by scripts. These scripts are the only thing that has ever given me an infection and chrome and I.E have no defense for day zero types of these scripts. Until Chrome lets me choose per site like noscripts does in an easy way whether I want to run scripts or not there is no way I am changing. Currently there is a plugin, but it still cannot stop Google scripts running else Google would get no ad revenues. You did not think that browser was 100% free did you?.

Also in the speed side. As soon once you have noscript and adblock plus installed, it is amazing how quick websites load....

 

[Awexsome]

Never tried Chrome or Opera. Switched from IE actually pretty recently to Firefox since, contrary to the internet, popular things can actually be more than shit. Worked fine for me up until my college classes pretty much forced me to switch to Firefox and are there any major criticisms for IE compared to the other browsers that doesn't stem from old outdated hate? Because I haven't heard any.

 

[gyroscopeboy]

I use Firefox solely for its web development plugins...FireBug is awesome

 

[CrystalShadow]

I'm confused, if Opera is so much better, why does it seem to fall behind Chrome in simple tests

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-big-browser-benchmark-chrome-15-vs-opera-11-vs-ie9-vs-firefox-8-vs-safari-5/16041?pg=6&tag=content;siu-container

Can someone explain?

and apparently the one that truly sucks is safari.

Last time I tried using Mouse Gestures in Chrome in required a plug-in, and the responsiveness was too low. Do you use mouse gestures for back, forward, new tab, close tab, etc?

Opera invented mouse gestures and still does them best last I checked, but maybe Chrome has made a better copy by now. Opera has a lot of default features, so I'm not used to digging through plug-ins.

I don't personally use mouse gestures, but I can. I didn't realize I downloaded a plug-in if I did. But that seems unbelievably minor, I mean, no one I know use mouse gestures that much, and as personal opinion, I'd rather be able to down load the things I see as necessary than have a huge download thats full of shit I'll never use.

Eh, these things are very variable.

Opera was fastest a while back. Now it's not. Chrome was initially known for it's speed, lost that for a while, now it's back to it.

Firefox was once incredibly slow, they fixed a few things, now they've lost some of it again, but it's all fairly minimal stuff.

For a while Opera was the only browser properly supporting the official HTML standards. Which wasn't worth anything, because nobody used it, and sites were designed around IE's weird quirks. (Which, unfortunately, opera wasn't very good at replicating.)

All in all these kind of tests give results which change just about every time someone releases a new browser version.

As for this particular set of results, it shows something quite amusing in that Safari is so bad, while Chrome is good...
This has been the case before, but the reason this is so odd is that Safari and Chrome are internally derived from shared source code.

I can only assume what's built on top of that code is radically different, but it's still odd just how much of a gap there is between the two when you take this into account...

 

[dystopiaINC]

i prefer fire fox personally. alot of times i might accidentally close one of my numerous tabs out when i meant to close another. fire foxe has a recently closed tabs list.

fire fox has custom banners i have my nice N& commander Shepard banner on haha.
and i have an easier time with the tools personally.

however sadly i have to use crom on my laptop. firefox refuses to work properly and has a problem with typing in search bars with various websites. but i don;t have that problem on my desktop which is the only reason i ever use my desktop anymore.

 

[Drunkbot]

There is a certain add-on that Firefox has that I won't part with. It is frowned upon to talk about that add-on here though. I will stick with Firefox until I can get that add-on in another browser and it works as flawlessly as it does in Firefox.

I believe I too use that add-on. I tried Chrome for the length of time it took me to realize a similar add-on was not also available there, but then I realized why and thought "Oh my goodness they are the next evil empire."

 

[Formica Archonis]

Ah, browsers. I remember reading the Doctor Who FAQs on http://nitro9.earth.uni.edu/ using Mosaic. (I'd played around with the Gopher protocol but it was clearly on the way out even then.)

From there, I went to Netscape Navigator, then to Communicator, which I held stubbornly on to until Seamonkey came out. (IE? Eugh.) Now I'm stubbornly holding on to Seamonkey 1.x because 2.x has some of the problems Firefox has developed. (Perhaps stupid for security reasons.)

These days it's so different than the early days! I usually have multiple browsers running because there's always ONE site that will hate whatever browser I'm using at the time. Also, with multiple browsers I can grind all of my Echo Bazaar accounts at once. (Why log in and out when you can just open a different browser?)

 

[ManaAdvent]

Eh, I use Firefox more since my brother recommended it to me and I'm very fine with it since Internet is still pretty fast and I do like some of the features. Google Chrome is basically my backup if anything ever happens to Firefox.