Nameless Voice on 12/5/2011 at 22:32
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
It also feels kind of... light, whilst Chrome is somehow less so.
What?
I always felt Firefox felt the clunkiest of all browsers, regardless of any actual real speed, it always felt clunky to me. Possibly because my main introduction to Firefox was in the old days of Firefox 1 and for some reason I was running it on an ancient Win98 machine (not my own) with that hideous plain grey Win98 look.
Whatever you decide, Firefox makes a horrible second browser. If you don't run the thing regularly, then every time you do, you have to wait five minutes for it to install all its updates and updated extensions and argh.
Tomi on 13/5/2011 at 08:42
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I always felt Firefox felt the clunkiest of all browsers, regardless of any actual real speed, it always felt clunky to me.
I don't know if there's any big difference, but Chrome does feel a bit lighter and faster to me too. Having said that, Firefox can be hopelessly slow with some Flash stuff, I can't understand how some simple Flash application on Firefox can raise the CPU usage to 40% and slow down the whole system (damn 'plugin-container.exe'), while the same application runs perfectly smoothly on Chrome.
ffox on 13/5/2011 at 09:02
The flash plugin was always crashing in my Chrome installation. I've now changed to(
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php) SWIron which looks and performs much the same. However the flash plugin doesn't crash and, unlike Chrome, the browser doesn't invade your privacy. I like it!
Child Of Karras on 13/5/2011 at 12:48
Since Chrome doesn't give you a client ID number anymore there's no real reason to be afraid of it. If you surf via Chrome or search something via Google doesn't make a difference here. SRWare Iron is known to have some suspicious code changes. (
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam)
ffox on 13/5/2011 at 14:29
An interesting (if dubious) article - do you believe it? It could be he is dissing the opposition in order to push his own Chromium clone.
The reason I changed was the persistent flash plugin crash in Chrome (in both the basic and development versions, Win 7). SRWIron doesn't suffer from this crash.
I'll give (
http://download.cnet.com/Comodo-Dragon/3000-2356_4-75119680.html) Comodo Dragon a try.
Edit: I did, and it crashes at every opportunity! Back to SRWIron for me.
Briareos H on 13/5/2011 at 14:41
Quote Posted by ffox
his own Chromium clone..
You mean Chromium?
Anyway you don't need long explanations when you can read directly what the guy who made the fork (
http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html) said when devs proposed to push his changes to the official branch instead of forking:
Quote:
Iron: because a fork will bring a lot of publicity to my person and my homepage
Iron: that means: a lot of money too ;)
. Or is this also a plot by Linux devs of Chromium?
ffox on 13/5/2011 at 15:26
I'm not trying to start a war. Methinks some people protest too much!
The main point is (for the 3rd time):
Quote Posted by ffox
The reason I changed was the persistent flash plugin crash in Chrome (in both the basic and development versions, Win 7). SRWIron doesn't suffer from this crash.
Avalon on 15/5/2011 at 04:26
I was recently forced to move from Firefox to Chrome on my laptop, because for whatever reason, starting Firefox as of last week causes the whole machine to freeze up and die, requiring a hard reset by removing the battery (even the power button stops responding), no matter how quickly I force close the process.
Chrome's okay. I haven't found all the plugins or extensions or whatever the hell I need to make it as obsessively secure as Firefox is with Noscript and what not, but it's been adequate.
Dirty_Brute on 15/5/2011 at 05:10
Check out the latest Browser Battle article in Maximum PC. I just got through reading it. It's got Firefox as still being the fastest and Chrome being almost as fast. Check out the Power-User tips section to learn how to turn on GPU acceleration. I am trying IE 9 once and a while and it's nice and fast but it seems like a Chrome wanna-be.
(
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/browser_battle_2011_who_new_king_web) http://www.maximumpc.com/article/browser_battle_2011_who_new_king_web
Koki on 15/5/2011 at 08:03
FF4 also looks like Chrome wanna-be.
