SubJeff on 12/5/2011 at 12:03
Yeah.
I'm a Firefox user in your FACE!
But I'm also a big user of Google's stuff - email and calendar are pretty much my contact/organisation core and I've started using Talk on my phone instead of text messages. I have a Nexus One and a Xoom btw.
I don't know what it is about Chrome, and it may well have changed in recent builds, but Firefox has always been my favourite browser because of the speed (which isn't all that these days tbh), the extensions and I suppose the familiarity. It also feels kind of... light, whilst Chrome is somehow less so.
So, Chrome users, give me the hard sell. Why should I move from Firefox to Chrome? WHY?:mad:
Briareos H on 12/5/2011 at 12:29
Why should we biatches try to sell it to you while Firefox does everything you want? Just use Firefox. Chrome doesn't do anything more, except maybe the omnibox which is nothing more than a box which interprets anything different from an URL as a google search term.
Personally I still find Chrome faster, and I don't use Firefox for purely 'political' reasons. But really there is no convincing to do there.
SubJeff on 12/5/2011 at 13:23
What are the political reasons? And how do you find the extensions and the chrome app store? I don't know anything about the app store - are the apps HTML5+Javascript+CSS (The HTML5 "Suite" if you will).
I was wondering what Chrome is like for the user. I prefer personal recs to tech spec lists.
Enchantermon on 12/5/2011 at 13:50
For someone like me, who never has fewer than 20 tabs open at once, Chrome is awesome. Even after a restart, when opening all those tabs at once, it never chokes; everything loads fast and there's never any lag switching between tabs. I used Firefox myself until I tried Chrome, and I never went back.
The only downside is that there are websites that don't fully support Chrome, so occasionally I have to pull up Firefox for those (or IE, but ever since 9 came out it crashes every time I open it :P)
Gingerbread Man on 12/5/2011 at 14:45
angry birds online chrome app
SubJeff on 12/5/2011 at 16:44
Yeah, I'm bored of Angry Birds already. Played it to death on my phone.
Chrome handles multiple tabs better than Firefox? Even with other stuff on in the background? I typically have Spotify on, Eclipse or Notepad++ (or both), Gimp, often uTorrent and/or Skype. Since Chrome handles tabs as separate processes with this not cause some slowdown?
Enchantermon on 12/5/2011 at 20:23
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Chrome handles multiple tabs better than Firefox? Even with other stuff on in the background? I typically have Spotify on, Eclipse or Notepad++ (or both), Gimp, often uTorrent and/or Skype. Since Chrome handles tabs as separate processes with this not cause some slowdown?
I've never seen any significant slowdown, but then again, I don't often have a lot open at once. Usually I have Chrome, avast's resident shield and Steam open all the time, and most of the time Outlook and a couple of Explorer windows. That said, almost all day yesterday I had three Word documents and two Excel spreadsheets open as well as a few e-mails and everything else already mentioned. The only hiccup I experienced was bringing up one of the Word documents that had been idle for several hours; it just took about 5 seconds to maximize, but was smooth as butter from then on, as was everything else. This is also on Windows 7.
SubJeff on 12/5/2011 at 22:03
Ok, I'm trying it. Til the end of the month I'm using Chrome instead of Firefox. I've installed Speeddial2 and effectively cloned my FF Speeddial (though I must admit it looks slicker in Chrome).
I'D BETTER NOT BE DISAPPOINTED :mad:
