Firefox Vs. Google Chrome

Firefox for me, I like the scroll wheel tap to open new tab. Chrome also seems a bit juddery which is a minor but fairly common irritant.

Chrome, latest version is really nippy, I prefer their bar to the awesome bar, nice lightweight interface.

Chrome, but I still use Firefox too for the Down Them All extension.

Chrome is great. Loads helluva lot quicker on my machine. It's got less clutter on the screen and seems their bookmark bar is handier, somehow.

Yep, Chrome for me. would like to see a proper version for linux though.

Opera!

i am v much enjoying Chrome

I find that gifs slow down in Chrome. They start at a normal speed then it's just frame-pause-frame-pause-frame. Weirdly enough that happens each time it loops.

Also a lot of pictures come up as broken links first time I open threads. I always need to reload then they work fine.

^^That's my only complaint so far with Chrome. I haven't used it much, but apart from that it's been excellent. The unclutteryness seconded (or thirded or...you know whatever)

yes, Chrome - uncluttered (as mentioned above), attractive and kind of fun.

firefox - chrome is never going to get a ad blocker

I have given up on ad blocking. When I had a shitting half meg connection and slow browser rendering then it was worth it, now I can't be arsed and besides, most of the websites I read I'd like them to stay in business.

I don't go in for generalised ad-blocking but I couldn't live without the ad blocker blocking the banner ads at the side of my 'My eBay' page. The ads always involve animation of some kind and I find the movement genuinely distracting, even disquieting, when I see it from the corner of my eye as I try to read the text in the middle of the page.

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I have given up on ad blocking. When I had a shitting half meg connection and slow browser rendering then it was worth it, now I can't be arsed and besides, most of the websites I read I'd like them to stay in business.

I draw the line at flash. Flash ads are absolutely vile, not to mention potentially insecure.

Going FFX here because Mac Chrome still doesn't exist.

NB: Privoxy works with any web browser and does a good, but not 100% perfect, job at blocking ads.

would be Chrome if only i could run the same FF extensions, greasemonkey etc.

FF, Chrome doesn't have any of the extensions that I like to use.

i had no idea so many people were using chrome

Yeah, it seems so cheesy.

Chrome's about to get extensions, including Ad Blocking.

I use it on PC because of the speed, which is something else.

really? why would google allow ad blocking on their browser?

no linux port = no utility

Yeah I'm surprised by the Chrome love. Firefox is so great because of its customizability. Obviously, Chrome doesn't have all these features and that's why it's so light but Firefox is a lot quicker than it used to be anyway right...

is chrome stable yet?

read somewhere that ffx 3.1 is supposed to be essentially as fast as chrome

in a specific javascript comparison, I think it is. But Chrome smokes it at launch time (it's essentially instant on my crapo PC) and rendering big pages of straight html. Also one tab doesn't hang the others.

zappi: beats me. But they even list it as an example: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions

chrome was fast when i had it but it made flash pause for about a second whenever i pressed the ctrl key. which kind of made things slower

or the times when it quits itself. also slow things down a tad

incognito mode i liked though. good for redtube

i've really liked chrome since I've had it. I like the google search in the toolbar, I've found those 9 windows in the middle helpful and I haven't once felt tempted to weigh my browser down with some crazy add-on.

reading this comic makes me want chrome for osx:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

LOL at Googles explanation for 'Incognito Mode'

"For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises such as gifts or birthdays, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode. "

since i started using chrome it drives me mad that you can't search from the address bar in firefox

Actually, I have to say, the ability to create stand alone application shortcuts in Chrome is pretty neat. Having a Yahoo shortcut on my desktop that instantly opens my mail is v. nice

isn't there another browser where they straight up call it "porn mode"? i appreciate that kind of candor

I only used incognito mode for porn for a while, imagining no other uses, but it is actually also handy for quickly seeing what a page on a website would look like if you were logged out, or for clicking on a page without the site recognising that you did so (e.g. on ILX looking at a thread without changing the new answer thing) which is more helpful than you'd think.

> I find that gifs slow down in Chrome

the animated icons they used for the throbber in linux firefox often caused an otherwise idle machine to clock up 25% cpu usage. luckily it's only a css change to remove them (or replace them with little rotating foxes like i did)

as for supporting adblock - a lot of people specifically don't block google ads because they aren't obtrusive and are well targeted. it's the flashing, monkey-punching adverts that everyone objects to.

since i started using chrome it drives me mad that you can't search from the address bar in firefox

― Suggesteban Buttez (jabba hands), Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:20 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban

I can do this but I forget how I made it happen--Tombot explained how somewhere

meaning you can do this ON FIREFOX

the animated icons they used for the throbber in linux firefox often caused an otherwise idle machine to clock up 25% cpu usage. luckily it's only a css change to remove them (or replace them with little rotating foxes like i did)

WAAAAAHT

PLEASET EXPLAIN HOW ONE CAN DO THIS

isnt searching from the address bar standard in firefox?? maybe i'm misunderstanding

I just typed "peanut butter" in the address bar (space included) and it took me to the wikipedia site for peanut butter.

a lot of people specifically don't block google ads because they aren't obtrusive and are well targeted.

Ads of any sort are obtrusive to me.

Ads of any sort are obtrusive to me.

By definition.

w/ the searching: yeah it seems to either take you to a page, or to search google? i'm not sure how it decides which is the best option.

right-click in the search engine textbox. choose 'Add a Keyword for this Search'. type in a name (eg 'Google'), a keyword (eg 'g'), and click 'Add'. thereafter if you type 'g [search term]' in firefox's address bar it will search google for that term

if you straight up type a non-url into the address bar i believe it takes you directly to the first result google returns

you can change that in about:config -- search for keyword.url and change it to not be the I'm Feeling Lucky one.

the animated icons they used for the throbber in linux firefox often caused an otherwise idle machine to clock up 25% cpu usage. luckily it's only a css change to remove them (or replace them with little rotating foxes like i did)

WAAAAAHT

PLEASET EXPLAIN HOW ONE CAN DO THIS

assuming it's the same in linux firefox as windows, go to view > toolbars > customize and drag the throbber/'activity indicator' off the toolbar to the customize toolbar box

I actually want to know for Linux. Thanks so much.

Sometimes the Flash plugin will swamp my CPU on Firefox. I have to go by trial and error and close FF windows until the offending page dies. I've had this happen occasionally on Chrome also, but at least on Chrome it's easier to kill the individual process that's causing the problem and leave everything else running.

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Is it possible to *launch* Chrome in incognito mode? Or can it only be accessed while the main window is already open...

try adding --incognito in the command line

what is command line

Yes, what's the command line...?!

open a shell and type 'cmd'

Use a Command Line Switch to Open in Incognito Mode

open a shell and type 'cmd'
Isn't that using the command line to get a command line?

^_^

mookie - cheers.

chrome is like the only browser that didn't get some kind of major security patch this week

otoh does chrome have the same kind of lockdown functionality you can get from firefox + noscript?

so the new version of firefox is just a rip of chrome then?

not that i'm complaining

firefox was giving me huge problems (like, seizing up my mac completely, crashing finder, etc) after the last update until I uninstalled flash, uninstalled firefox, and then installed them both back fresh.

I got sick of Firefox a long time ago. My favorite browser ever was Flock (RIP). I know Chrome is corporate evil but it is very similar so I switched.

firefox 4 started off fast and awesome and then over a couple of weeks it began to exhibit intermittent stalling behavior, so we're back to chrome\
I wish we could hurry up and upgrade to 4 at work. I've already been telling tool developers they have to dump flash for html5

worst thing now is that ff4 for mac doesn't have a plugin to view pdfs, so my desktop fills up with pdfs that i looked at for 30 seconds and never need to see again. really just seems like the most basic functionality.

yes, that

cosign. supposedly there will be native PDF support in some future version, but who knows if/when that will happen

Why do people have problems with a browser that looks pretty? I like the customization options in Chrome, and it also has the instant translation. I think Firefox needs a serious makeover.

pdfs in web browsers have always been terrible. i approve of removing that feature.

I think you should get a prompt asking 'save?/open in browser?', or be able to set an automatic default. In chrome, pdf-in-browser is either switched on or off. But whether it's appropriate often depends on the particular file.

The following add-ons have a significant impact on how long it takes Firefox to start up.

(if anything, getting rid of Video DownloadHelper helped a lot overall)

does Chrome on Mac finally support the three-finger scroll for the top/bottom of a page?

New Browser launched, Vivaldi

Vivaldi - the new web browser for power users
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/06/vivaldi-the-new-web-browser-for-power-users

Vivaldi has launched a new web browser that is different enough to have a chance of success. Rather than targeting the mass market with a simplified browser, Vivaldi is trying to deliver more power to the people who live and work on the web, whether they use Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. ...

In other words, Vivaldi is a browser for “power users”, geeks and techno-freaks, though there’s nothing to stop anybody else from using it. In its standard configuration, it’s a straightforward replacement for Google’s Chrome. Although Vivaldi’s interface is new, the engine underneath is open source Chromium – the same code that powers Google’s browser.

Vivaldi
https://vivaldi.com/

So Chrome with some plugins
Can't wait

The Firefox 57 beta is fast as hell on this machine; it's outpacing Chrome easily

Hm might have to check it out

definitely a few rough edges, but overall it's pretty impressive

I was asked to run some stats on which browsers our users were using recently and was surprised to find that Firefox was less popular than IE and Safari! Chrome was by far the most popular. There was 1 Opera user lol. This might be distorted by most of our clients being office-based and maybe there's company policies in place that don't allow people to install their browser of choice.

On a related note, I thought I'd try MS Edge just to see what it's like, and wow it just doesn't work at all! I had to enter the URL 5 times before it would even load a page, just kept blanking out the URL bar a few seconds after I typed it, then when the page did load, it was Not Responding, and I couldn't type in any text inputs. What a pile of shit. Not that I'm particularly surprised.

On a related note, I thought I'd try MS Edge just to see what it's like, and wow it just doesn't work at all!

new version with the big W10 update ('Creator Update') is far far better.
have been using Nu-Edge for over a week and the RAM grab is far lower than Chrome, and site loading just as quick.

new version is incredibly fast, but there are a few legacy extensions i cannot do without

New version of what?

Firefox yesterday was maxing out one of my CPUs for no discernable reason.

The new adblock update has broken the element hiding thing.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum

you may already have had the beta tho

haha I was about to say "I have to respect mozilla's total commitment to just refactoring the whole thing whenever they deem it necessary, fuck backwards compatibility" but I didn't have all the facts, so I hesitated

Also holy shit they really did build a web browser out of Rust

I need to send some respek knuckles to a person or two

Perplexity’s Comet browser is now available to everyone for free
https://www.theverge.com/news/790419/perplexity-comet-available-everyone-free

it's Chromium based (so similar to Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi etc)

Perplexity Comet
https://www.perplexity.ai/comet