Which Web Browser?

Firefox for these reasons:

- Firefox is faster for me (especially when loading image/GIF/Flash intensive pages, chrome really sucks in that area), pages are loaded first and then rendered instantly where as with chrome it loads the pages whilst rendering at the same time so it doesn't have that same instant feel as firefox, just appears that it loads faster. However, overall chrome is faster and smoother throughout the UI.

- having the gmail tab pinned and if you receive an email it doesn't change colour, you need to install an addon and have an icon in the nav bar, so more clutter

- pages aren't remembered where you left off after you close chrome, just reloads them and brings you back to the top of the page again, so means you have to scroll all the way through again looking for the last post you read

- userstyles look no where as good on chrome

- no where as smooth when scrolling as firefox even with smooth scroll installed especially for image/flash/GIF intensive pages

- font looks much better, more smooth for firefox. Ever 2 updates ago for chrome, the font has gotten even worse

- Better ad-blocking scope

- firefox is allows you to tweak the UI to whatever you want

Although using waterfox instead now, even quicker than regular firefox. Plus RAM usage is actually better for me on firefox than it is on chrome especially when you have more than 5 tabs opened! Don't really care about this area though as I have 8GB RAM :p
 
whats happened to firefox 17? updated yesterday, the fonts look terrible, like clear type is on, why have they changed it? anyway to get it to look like it used to?
 
They use the same profile so yes, uninstall FF, don't tick the box at the end, install WaterFox, continue as you were.
 
For those that use Waterfox...

Is there any performance difference between that and Firefox?

Is it as secure as Firefox? Obviously I trust Mozilla with their product but what about the trustworthiness of Waterfox? Especially if it's used for shopping and online banking.

Finally, is it compatible with a password manager such as Lastpass?


Cheers!
 
Is there any performance difference between that and Firefox?
Waterfox is 64bit and has further improvements, they list changes on the site too, recently 16.0.1 adds javascript enhancements **** other things. It also is more speedy loading mansized media threads on forums like the youtube thread with 80 posts per page.

Is it as secure as Firefox? Obviously I trust Mozilla with their product but what about the trustworthiness of Waterfox? Especially if it's used for shopping and online banking.
Yup - It's also endorsed by Mozilla on their powered by page @ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/powered-by.html

Finally, is it compatible with a password manager such as Lastpass?
I don't use that but have over 20 extensions which all work!
 
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Waterfox is basically just Firefox recompiled as a 64bit app and with support for things like SSE3. It's the exact same code.

The only reason for the new name and icon is that Mozilla don't let 3rd party builds be called Firefox.

Obviously it's possible that the guy who maintains it may have inserted something nasty in there, just as a Mozilla dev could choose to do so, but his source code is on sourceforge for anyone to look at and no-one has found anything yet.
 
mrk said:
Is there any performance difference between that and Firefox?
Waterfox is 64bit and has further improvements, they list changes on the site too, recently 16.0.1 adds javascript enhancements **** other things. It also is more speedy loading mansized media threads on forums like the youtube thread with 80 posts per page.

Is it as secure as Firefox? Obviously I trust Mozilla with their product but what about the trustworthiness of Waterfox? Especially if it's used for shopping and online banking.
Yup - It's also endorsed by Mozilla on their powered by page @ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/powered-by.html

Finally, is it compatible with a password manager such as Lastpass?
I don't use that but have over 20 extensions which all work!
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Waterfox is basically just Firefox recompiled as a 64bit app and with support for things like SSE3. It's the exact same code.

The only reason for the new name and icon is that Mozilla don't let 3rd party builds be called Firefox.

Obviously it's possible that the guy who maintains it may have inserted something nasty in there, just as a Mozilla dev could choose to do so, but his source code is on sourceforge for anyone to look at and no-one has found anything yet.
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Thank you both for your detailed replies, that sounds good enough for me!

I'm downloading it now! :D


Ooh...I just thought...how do I put all my Firefox settings into it, is there an easy way to import them?
 
Import? :p

It share the same profile so just install > Run and everything will be there :)
 
It does? Great Scott!

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