Google's Chrome Browser Used More Than Firefox

[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.

 

[shrekfan246]

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.

OT: Firefox is my main, with Chrome as a back up. The moment I discovered there was an alternative to IE, I ditched it forever. IE is leading but mostly due to people not knowing the alternatives and the great number of company/school computers that prohibit the use of other browsers. At least that's my theory.

[sub][sub]And then there are those who oddly prefer IE despite knowing the alternatives... [/sub][/sub]

Pretty much me right there. I have Chrome, but I use Firefox. I think Internet Explorer might still be infecting this computer somewhere, but I haven't let it out of its cage in years.

Also, I think this is obligatory:

Spoiler: Spoil'd for size.

 

[gphjr14]

I use FF primarily to view sites like these where I don't want a bunch of invasive ads and crap and just want the main page to appear. Chrome is for sites I trust not to have a shit load of ads. Both are good; however Chrome tends to slow down my little laptop because it takes a lot of memory to work as fast as it does.

 

[Filiecs]

I love Chrome, it's extremely fast and allows me to have about 60 or more tabs open at a time, sometimes I even use up to 100. I love how I can just open 10 things in a new tab and come back to them later.

 

[zehydra]

I take it you haven't used Opera, because Chrome's still copying it's innovations from 5 years ago.

agreed. In terms of what it can do, Chrome still isn't that powerful as browser.

However, it's a ton times faster to boot up on my machine than Firefox or Opera, and doesn't crash as often as firefox did for me.

It got to the point for me, that I was so sick of waiting a while to boot up my firefox that I just gave up and gave Chrome a whirl. Haven't looked back, since I don't really need that much customization for my browser.

 

[5t3v0]

I only still use FF because chrome wasn't working for a bit, and I dislike a few of its restrictions, and its ram usage. Still is an awesome browser though and I use it for my dads netbook and other Computer, but my ol' gaming riggy uses FF.

 

[Pat8u]

ITS A BROWSER it shows you web pages who cares which one is better it doesen't even matter I use the one that I click on first

 

[Yosarian2]

They want people to move on from Windows XP. It's dated, and Windows 7 was/is a good enough OS to replace it.

That's not an automatic update; you'd have to actually buy windows 7, (well, or steal it) and no one is going to waste money on an old computer.

 

[Mr. Google]

Clegane]

Clegane]Why is this news?

I mean it's hardly surprising.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-stupidest-internet-reactions-to-shocking-news-stories/

This is why its news jackass.

You've got a lot of nerve fuckwit.

Everyone knows Chrome is better than firefox, thus more people use chrome its not fucking surprising and its hardly news.

You come here and pretty much call everyone here idiots and I have a lot of nerve? No one said that this is the single most shocking peace to ever come about but it is regardless, NEWS!

 

[Panorama]

Im still with opera, but my question is does any android phone use chrome, or some kind of variation of it, and if so does that come into the count?

 

[trlkly]

The problem with Chrome is not quite the problem with Apple, but it's close. They intentionally refuse to put in things that would make it more customizable, and refuse to work on things people ask for.

And people claiming that Chrome was designed from the ground up to be a better browser are being ridiculous. For one thing, you can say the exact same thing about Firefox (no, it never had any Netscape code). Two, Chrome uses webkit--Apple's rendering engine. You can't really call that designed from the ground up.

Though I will point out one thing: you can get that addon you guys apparently can't mention in Chrome. The only problem with it is that there's no helper extension, and using it with videos requires getting the dev version. But it's there.

Still, they keep you from being able to resize except in fixed intervals, and you can't resize text. Both of those are dealbreakers. Even if Firefox is talking about removing Live Bookmarks, which pisses me off pretty badly.