Google Chrome or FireFox?

Vimes · 23 Dec 2011 at 09:25

I don't see any one browser as being "better" than the other but I do have a preference for Firefox due to the excellent extensions. If they were available for Chrome I might use that more often, then again as FF does everything I need I would probably just stick with that.
Opera - I keep going back now and again to try that out, with the latest alpha 12 builds. Unfortunately I can still have some rendering problems and quirkiness. Even though they have extensions of a sort Firefox is still head and shoulders above Opera.

Using a SSD drive I do not notice and one browser being faster than another so I'm not really sure what people mean when they express that opinion. Unless you have a slow system and then I have found that a vanilla Chrome is pretty good. My brother has a really old PC and Chrome does seem to make a difference for him.

Mr Krugga · 23 Dec 2011 at 11:39

Firefox

Resized for the noobs with lower resolution screens:

Although I would use Chrome on a netbook.

Morfik · 23 Dec 2011 at 11:50

Tute said:
Chrome or IE9 if you like it fast and simple.

Firefox if you like your addons.

This sums it up.

I used to love the customisation of Firefox and the addons are still far better than Chrome extensions. But I feel that despite patch notes and version numbers claiming Firefox is getting faster it seems to chug along more than ever and freezes up more and more as the version numbers get higher...

ng93 · 23 Dec 2011 at 12:09

mrk said:
I have an SSD. Both browsers load from cold just as fast, both load websites just as fast.

Firefox has more power, more customisation and better extensions, which make or break a browser, so I use FF as the main browser.

This, although Chrome is IME faster on low end hardware. Although IMO the OP should just try them both out.

KIA · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:26

opethdisciple said:
I dont like the integrated pdf and flash, let alone the silent updating.

Unfourtunatly all these things are going to come to Firefox as well.... so Chrome must be doing something right.

Why not? 99.9% of people aren't capable of patching their own software.

Nexus18 said:
However I hate the silent updating for add ons and chrome itself, I want to be notified when there is an update and what to do with a change log provided, thankfully there is an addon for chrome called chrome update notifier that shows you when an addon or chrome has updated providing a link to the changelog.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleChromeReleases?format=xml is a nice feed.

BananaDunka · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:40

Where did the 99.9% of people come from?

People have kids in the house who know how to do ****.

Jay794 · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:43

I have Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE9 installed, and I use all of them, Firefox most of the time though. Sometimes Firefox dislikes a website, and recently Hotmail only seems to get on with IE9 lol

Morfik said:
I used to love the customisation of Firefox and the addons are still far better

Except, zero stuff works on the Firefox Betas, none of the addons work lol

NuclearWinter · 23 Dec 2011 at 13:50

Jay794 said:
Except, zero stuff works on the Firefox Betas, none of the addons work lol

They most likely all work fine if you just turn off compatibility checking.

Mr Krugga · 23 Dec 2011 at 14:59

Jay794 said:
Except, zero stuff works on the Firefox Betas, none of the addons work lol

I had problems with none. lol

BananaDunka · 23 Dec 2011 at 15:22

Indeed.

If people actually paid attention then countless times others have posted how to get extensions that did not support new FF versions working with little to no effort.

Vimes · 23 Dec 2011 at 15:33

I find the Keefox extension for Firefox (to enable the Keepass integration) is so much better than the Chrome one. There doesn't seem to be an Opera type plugin.

Nexus18 · 23 Dec 2011 at 17:27

Morfik said:
But I feel that despite patch notes and version numbers claiming Firefox is getting faster it seems to chug along more than ever and freezes up more and more as the version numbers get higher...

Complete opposite for me, every update always feel a bit more snappier I find, I absolutely hated FF before V4, but ever since that whole new version came out, with each update, I find that it is just getting better each time!

Maybe a bad add-on you have installed?

KIA said:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleChromeReleases?format=xml is a nice feed.

Thanks!

Installed speed dial 2 for chrome yesterday and I love it! Much better than firefox speed dial version! Hopefully something similar is released for FF soon....

Biz.Kid09 · 23 Dec 2011 at 17:30

I use Chrome as it is just miles quicker than when i use FireFox. I have no idea why but pages load quicker on Chrome and it is noticeable.

Might just be me

Tute · 24 Dec 2011 at 13:54

Morfik said:
This sums it up.

I used to love the customisation of Firefox and the addons are still far better than Chrome extensions. But I feel that despite patch notes and version numbers claiming Firefox is getting faster it seems to chug along more than ever and freezes up more and more as the version numbers get higher...

Well I remember having this argument with (I believe it was) mrk a few months back. Generally I believe we accepted that FF is the way to go if you want extensive and comprehensive customisation through addons.
If you don't care about that, then it comes down to Chrome or IE9.

Personally I quite like IE9 but if I was forced to use Chrome it wouldn't bother me at all. If I was forced to use FF I don't think it'd bother me either, but the first thing i'd do is install addon(s) to maximise speed from it.

I have to admit though, one of the things that bothers me way more than it should is when someone has FF installed "cos IE is evil, innit". This seemed to be all the fad 5 years ago amongst my friends and I just wish people would pick a browser because they like it and not because the media tell them to.

Deception · 24 Dec 2011 at 15:34

At home I use Aurora (because I want to be different

). At work, I use most of the browsers to test websites we build.

Tripnologist · 24 Dec 2011 at 20:04

I've been using Firefox since they released v1.5, but lately I've been having problems not only with it crashing at least once a week, but also with it eating up a ton of RAM by the end of the workday.

If I'm honest, I'd probably be using Chrome myself if I didn't rely so heavily on some of the web development plugins available for FF, such as Firebug.

Hxc · 24 Dec 2011 at 20:20

Firefox purely because tabs on top is a crap setup imo

sajtion · 24 Dec 2011 at 23:05

firefox has become as bad as internet explorer. i would go with chrome. its the fastest browser at the moment

BananaDunka · 24 Dec 2011 at 23:06

sajtion said:
firefox has become as bad as internet explorer. i would go with chrome. its the fastest browser at the moment

Hmmm yes, I totally see the resemblance between the two.

Tute · 24 Dec 2011 at 23:18

For the first time pretty much ever, all the browsers are viable choices. It simply comes down to, as I said above, what you want from a browser.