New number 2 in Browser battle
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I would agree with that. The only reason I use FireFox, is the dwhelper, which I use to download video's off youtube.
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I realy don't like chrome.
The only reason people use IE is because it comes with windows.
Opera is still my favourite browser, it just lacks features and all the addons that firefox has.
firefox is still the best browser feature wise and addons wise etc. I have zero issues with the latest version of firefox, now that i have fixed my theme. I even went and fixed the youtube dark style yesterday for the new youtube, sad i know.
The only reason people use IE is because it comes with windows.
Opera is still my favourite browser, it just lacks features and all the addons that firefox has.
firefox is still the best browser feature wise and addons wise etc. I have zero issues with the latest version of firefox, now that i have fixed my theme. I even went and fixed the youtube dark style yesterday for the new youtube, sad i know.
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As soon as I can use Firebug on Chrome, I'd probably switch pretty quick like. It's the only addon I cannot live without.
Chrome fanhere, firefox used to be my choice but sadly it just ended up getting laggy and felt awful to use on website in particular that I used a lot and so I started using Chrome.
I still fire up the fox now and again, for old times and to check on new releases or use a couple of add on's but for the main it stays tucked away. It's had nothing to draw me back as Chrome works perfectly for my needs. (Apart from a flash/shockwave player causing the plugin to crash every so often a month or so back, but that seems to have stopped now and may well have been my old laptop
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Sad as I want to love firefox and even told a mate who an early switcher to chrome, that he was crazy thinking something could better it.
I still fire up the fox now and again, for old times and to check on new releases or use a couple of add on's but for the main it stays tucked away. It's had nothing to draw me back as Chrome works perfectly for my needs. (Apart from a flash/shockwave player causing the plugin to crash every so often a month or so back, but that seems to have stopped now and may well have been my old laptop
).Sad as I want to love firefox and even told a mate who an early switcher to chrome, that he was crazy thinking something could better it.
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I use firefox, chrome and opera, just depends what I need to do.
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Got this off another forum, and found it quite good,
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Is Google Chrome the New IE6?
Not looking too good here for Chrome,
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397158,00.asp
Not looking too good here for Chrome,
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397158,00.asp
Not exactly news though is it?
Everyone knows that HTML5 in Chrome is rather half baked (along with every other browser except IE9 - where Microsoft put in a super human effort to "do things right").
Chrome can get away with it, for now, because HTML5 is going to take another few years to reach mass adoption, and the key features like video playback are easy to get right anyway. But it's no different to how Microsoft and Netscape got away with sub-par HTML and CSS implementations for the first half-decade. But sooner or later that caught up with them as we all know. Sooner or later the lack of a proper well-engineered and well-thought out HTML5 engine will catch up with the others too. BTW: It ain't a proper HTML5 implementation if it isn't fully hardware accelerated. It just isn't.
Microsoft is the exception rather than the norm here.
The thing with Chrome is, it might not *technically* be the best browser. Hell, they're still stumbling around trying to figure out how to best do hardware and GPU acceleration. But it has some nice power-user features that IE9 doesn't. For example, I use the "select some text, right-click Google Search" workflow feature all the freaking time and it is so much better than before. Likewise the ability to select a non-linkified hyperlink and right-click for "Goto http...".
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so just one browsers cant do all for you
i use IE because i actually like it over the others strange as that may sound on these forums lol
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It's up to the web at large rather than Google, really. Google can make Google products work best on Chrome, but it can't ensure that other websites work best on Chrome. If we end up with that situation, it's the fault of web developers.
It's just like the IE6 situation. Microsoft takes a lot of flak for IE6, but (a) IE6 was an innovative browser back in 2001 when it was released, and (b) it's not Microsoft's fault that IE6 is still used because companies have dodgy web apps that only work on IE6. Microsoft is trying to get users off IE6 as quick as possible!