Prefered browser, Chrome or Firefox. And why?

I use to used Opera 12.16 before i got fed up with youtube lagging and my emails. The new opera I've just abandoned and hated. So switched to Firefox. The new layout of firefox does not really pain me as much when Opera decided to look like google chrome.
 
It's familiarity with a product at the end of the day. No one gets any prizes in this thread. If it works for you. . use it :D

Very true. The biggest browser speed up I've found is actually my mouse. Middle button opens a link in a new tab. One of the side buttons goes forward and another goes back. Seems to work in the browsers that I have used (Chrome or Firefox) and is the single biggest boost to browser responsiveness I've seen.

I can't for the life of me figure how I coped before I got this mouse and just used a normal 3 button one.
 
Firefox for

a) the "awesomebar" or whatever it calls itself. Gets me to what I want more efficiently than any of the other similar solutions -- absolutely killer feature.

b) tree style tab -- afaik there's no especially good solution nowadays for Chrome et al. Just can't use silly along-the-top tab arrangement.
 
I was reading last night that IE11 on desktop is the fastest browser by quite a bit. I've been using IE for about about 10 years after a good bit of time on Firefox.

Started using Waterfox last night and had forgotten how much I like customising my browser.
 
At home, I use Chrome Canary build, currently 64bit which is super fast.

In work, Firefox.

Don't really know why, but have always done that.
 
Used mostly Firefox for a long time time but the last couple of years I have been mostly using Chrome (even though the latest Firefox is lovely.)

I use those mostly for the ability to use adblock plus (and rarely other addons) that just are not available to internet explorer.

IE11 is very rarely used and only if I come across a site that doesn't work correctly in Chrome/Firefox.
 
I thought that Firefox's main drawback was its large memory footprint of ~350MB with 5 tabs open, but then IE7 (!) on our work machines also clock up 350MB with 5 tabs. Not fun when you're working with a prehistoric Pentium 4 spec, but hey, that's the NHS for you lol.
AdBlock+. Makes a fine cuisine out of memory.
 
^ True. It's hard to use a browser without an ad-removing solution like ADB+. The point is that Firefox, the actual browser, is not the memory-hungry monster that some may think it to be.
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I've also found, in the past, that Chrome is more unforgiving to the CPU than FF. I'm not sure how the two compare in this regard in present releases.

As for IE, I find that IE11 is definitely no slouch on Win8 in terms of speed.
 
Bluhell Firewall is a lighter alternative to ABP for Firefox, I'm using that for the Android version of Firefox as ABP slows down the start time of the browser too much. However, it's not as powerful and useful as ABP.
 
I don't understand why anyone uses Internet Explorer when it seems so slow and bloated compared to Firefox and Chrome. That said, I believe IE has been hugely improved recently so it may well be a serious consideratoins again. But anyway, for the purpose of this question, and I know there's others out there, out of Firefox and Chrome which do you prefer, and why?

Out of Firefox and Chrome, I prefer Firefox. I don't like the way Chrome installs itself with many other applications, sets itself as default and then some web pages fail to load...

Though I tend to use Waterfox, as it's faster than Firefox and yet still gives you the Firefox benefits.

Having said all that though, usually I just use IE, as most websites just work anyway and it seems fast enough.
 
90% Chrome (vanilla). Just works.
10% Firefox + NoScript. No ads, no javascript, a bit safer perhaps.
 
Personally I use IE, because it's basic and simple (out of the box) and I like the F12 Developer Tools!

I tried Firefox, and Chrome and Opera in the past, but they all felt a bit too bloated and polished, which is probably a good thing, if you want browsing to feel "nice", rather than just plain browsing.
 
I was a die hard fan of Chrome up until last week. I liked the idea of syncing with my google account(s). Then they decided to disable user scripts permanently.
So now I use FireFox
 
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