You Are Probably Using Google Chrome to Read This
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Chrome master race reporting in.
I have Firefox but tbh Chrome is faster and has never crashed for me, where FF has crashed a few times and is so sluggish in comparison. I still use it sometimes, Chrome likes to open several processes so when I tinker it annoys. IE just...no. I hear good things about 9 and I'll give it a look but really at this point I'm happy with my Chrome, I have the bells and whistles I want (erm, extensions) and the base browser is really nice and neat and orderly (whoever said there's no search bar, the web address bar IS the search bar, multi-tasking).
I do feel bad for IE, it's not as bad as it used to be and if the...'hype' over 9 is true then it's actually pretty decent but it'll be stained with its past for some time it seems.
I have Firefox but tbh Chrome is faster and has never crashed for me, where FF has crashed a few times and is so sluggish in comparison. I still use it sometimes, Chrome likes to open several processes so when I tinker it annoys. IE just...no. I hear good things about 9 and I'll give it a look but really at this point I'm happy with my Chrome, I have the bells and whistles I want (erm, extensions) and the base browser is really nice and neat and orderly (whoever said there's no search bar, the web address bar IS the search bar, multi-tasking).
I do feel bad for IE, it's not as bad as it used to be and if the...'hype' over 9 is true then it's actually pretty decent but it'll be stained with its past for some time it seems.
Nah, I'm using FireFox at the mo, don't know why but I feel safer using it though I do use Chrome if I'm looking something up quickly.
Opera gets the job done for me. Although, I do have a Chrome window open solely for Facebook (and anything that has issues with Opera for some reason)
Really? How does Safari run? 'Cause my experience with Itunes has led me to believe that Apple has programmed their software to be God awful on windows.KoudelkaMorgan said:
OT I use Firefox, add-ons and a fairly clean interface keep me quite happy. Though the reliablity does seem to be a bit suspect at times.
so, wait.. is this a fourth-wall break in a webpage?
how very meta of you
personally, i use Google, maxthon or plain old ie if nothing else works but honestly ive not seen a page fail to load in months so poor ie rarely gets a look in
i don't like how Google grows to fit the harddrive it's installed on however, i prune it with a good o'l
>cache>history>cookie>download>session>database wipe every few days or it ends up over a gig in size which is ludicrous for a simple browsing app
( and yes i care, im using a small ssd raid for my c drive )
how very meta of you
personally, i use Google, maxthon or plain old ie if nothing else works but honestly ive not seen a page fail to load in months so poor ie rarely gets a look in
i don't like how Google grows to fit the harddrive it's installed on however, i prune it with a good o'l
>cache>history>cookie>download>session>database wipe every few days or it ends up over a gig in size which is ludicrous for a simple browsing app
( and yes i care, im using a small ssd raid for my c drive )
Its good IE continues to fall as people start to learn about internet but im sad that Chrome took a bite off firefox share, especially when there were worse browsers to bite. Im using firefox, it has all the addons i want and im staying with them. over my 6 years of usage it has only really crashed once, and then a registry scan with ccleaner fixed it. Sure the flash plugin container may crash once a month, but thats really Flash problem not firefox, when it tries to load 5 advertisements in a video at once and stuff like that.
I did try chrme when it came out, noticed absolutely no "speed up" from firefox (except for starting time, but i got to do that once a day, so i can wait 5 seconds) so i just left it dormant. It did have one bonus over firefox is that it could read huge XML tables fast (try loading 65000 lines 200 colums XML table on the web, yay for statistics) and firefox woul take forever (really it woudl stop responding), but they fixed that with newer version.
I did try chrme when it came out, noticed absolutely no "speed up" from firefox (except for starting time, but i got to do that once a day, so i can wait 5 seconds) so i just left it dormant. It did have one bonus over firefox is that it could read huge XML tables fast (try loading 65000 lines 200 colums XML table on the web, yay for statistics) and firefox woul take forever (really it woudl stop responding), but they fixed that with newer version.
IE9 is horrible. Very little support for HTML5 and is still as resource whorish as ever.dyre said:While I'm happy to see Chrome rightfully take its place as the best/most-used browser, I've heard only good things about IE9, so perhaps it's unfair to call it mediocre
Poor IE seems to have been permanently tarnished by IE6
Hm, interesting. I do use Chrome on my ancient, ancient computer back in my parents' house because it seems to require less resources to run, but on my main computer I still use Firefox. I just like its addons so much. I guess I could check to see whether Chrome has equivalents for all the addons I want to and do use with Firefox, though.
I use most of it. That being said, how is that any different from other browsers?bahumat42 said:
It also took a great deal of willpower to respond to a post that substitutes letters by numbers.
Ugh.