Google Chrome versus Firefox (and Internet Explorer)

[TJ99]

Funny you should mention this, didnt they get the idea from Chrome's sync function? Bookmarks, passwords, filled in forms, etc.

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Nope. I'm pretty sure Opera was the first one to have it. (I could be wrong of course, but I used Chrome during the time Opera Link came out, and it had no similar function) Just like with tabs, gestures, and a speed dial. And auto-filling of forms. The point is it's standard with the browser.

Most of these are now in all browsers, even IE.

 

[Knyro]

I haven't used these before, but I found 2 after a quick Google search:
http://www.chromeextensions.org/utilities/flash-video-download/
http://www.chromeextensions.org/music-videos-photos/getflash/

First one didn't work for me (I see that it doesn't work for many judging by the comments).

Second one didn't work on the random site I tried, then again it is semi-universal.

Thanks anyway though, I must've tried at least 10 flv downloaders by now but none of them are genuinely universal. I think I'll stick with FF until Chrome's extensions are up to scratch.

 

[Creag]

Still happy with FF and I have no reason to move on.

 

[Knyro]

So the working, fast (but very basic) bowser, versus the slow, hipster one that needs 17 million plugins to do anything and crashes all the time, versus the basic and slow one.

FF can hardly be called a hipster browser. Most people don't even know it exists and it has a sizeable technical userbase. As for the plugins I enjoy the fact that not too many features are built in so you can customise it to your liking and not be stuck with features you'll never use.

Why is everyone in the world not using Opera yet? The fast, working, most-functional one that never crashes and has working cloud sync?

Good question, I remember how I much I used to like using Opera.

/downloads Opera .deb package

/installs

/sees MyBB keeps loading mobile version despite me repeatedly clicking the "View Full Forums" link

/FFFFFFUUUUUUUU

/decides that he's too tired to try and fix this right now

/thows hands up in disgust, goes back to and posts this in Firefox

 

[TJ99]

FF can hardly be called a hipster browser. Most people don't even know it exists and it has a sizeable technical userbase.

That's exactly the bloody definition of hipster. LOL.

 

[Necuno]

Did you install chromium project or actual chrome ?

I just installed Chrome in Ubuntu 10.04. After four tabs I'm on 200mb memory and my cpu doing a bit more work than usual. It did load in 1 sec, but my guess is there is something running to allow it to start up faster. Websites didn't load faster, it just look like it because of how Chrome load pages.

Firefox on my system start in 10 sec and is fully top-to-bottom customizable. I was unable to load Chrome apps page in order to test drive Adblock and other add-ons (no images/buttons load). I will attempt round two tomorrow and see how customizable it is - if I get those damn ads blocked.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Who actually cares?

Just use whatever browser you prefer.

 

[cpu.]

Did you install chromium project or actual chrome ?

Chrome from Google. Is Chromium better?

 

[Knyro]

That's exactly the bloody definition of hipster. LOL.

Not in this context. Most people went to FF because it is technically superior to IE, not just for the sake of being "progressive" or being different from the mainstream. If that were the case then FF would be a hipster browser. If IE were up to scratch I would have carried on using it.

BTW if my last post were the definition of hipster then Opera would be a hipster browser too because most people don't even know it exists and it has a sizeable technical userbase.

 

[StevenC]

Wow, does anyone actually care what the "hipsters" use? Does it really effing matter? I for one won't allow a browser choice to be defined by which Skrillex listening, long haired, straight edged goofball of a teenager uses.

Anyways, on to actual things that matter: Having used all browsers pretty extensively on a pretty decent PC, I have come to the conclusion that Chrome in fact sucks. Yes it loads in 1 second. Try opening 20-30 seperate images in their own tabs in FF and Chrome and see which browser wets its pants first. Since I browse a lot of por...er pictures, having a browser hang on a simple task like opening a background tab with very little to no content in it is just frustrating. The download manager is pretty rubbish as well compared to the FF default.

Chrome has potential. The opening up each new tab as a seperate process is just sloppy coding. It may help with start up times but when you actually use your browser then it becomes slow and laggy. I do not have these issues with FF.

Opera I used to love, but lack of extensions and less support on websites is a turn off.

 

[Bern]

Opera is my favourite, works brilliantly

 

[Toitjie]

I have 6 processes running, from just 3 tabs (2 * myBB and 1 gmail) and its using 226mb. Bit heavy if you ask me...

 

[superfly]

Anyways, on to actual things that matter: Having used all browsers pretty extensively on a pretty decent PC, I have come to the conclusion that Chrome in fact sucks. Yes it loads in 1 second. Try opening 20-30 seperate images in their own tabs in FF and Chrome and see which browser wets its pants first. Since I browse a lot of por...er pictures, having a browser hang on a simple task like opening a background tab with very little to no content in it is just frustrating. The download manager is pretty rubbish as well compared to the FF default.

Chrome has potential. The opening up each new tab as a seperate process is just sloppy coding. It may help with start up times but when you actually use your browser then it becomes slow and laggy. I do not have these issues with FF.

What he said, minus the por...er pictures

7 pinned tabs, 4 tab groups, and anything from 4 to 10 tabs in each tab group. Chrome doesn't do tab groups, and starts killing my machine after about 10 tabs are open. Firefox still runs perfectly. Thus, I stick to Firefox.

 

[Blackhand]

Use whatever browser you want, just not IE.

 

[Mouse]

Do you know one that will work on any flash video site and not just Youtube? One of many reasons I still use FF.

Here: https://spoi.com/software/yto/

Chrome has potential. The opening up each new tab as a seperate process is just sloppy coding. It may help with start up times but when you actually use your browser then it becomes slow and laggy. I do not have these issues with FF

No, that's a security feature. They chose to do that for a reason.

 

[w1z4rd]

I just installed Chrome in Ubuntu 10.04. After four tabs I'm on 200mb memory and my cpu doing a bit more work than usual. It did load in 1 sec, but my guess is there is something running to allow it to start up faster. Websites didn't load faster, it just look like it because of how Chrome load pages.

Firefox on my system start in 10 sec and is fully top-to-bottom customizable. I was unable to load Chrome apps page in order to test drive Adblock and other add-ons (no images/buttons load). I will attempt round two tomorrow and see how customizable it is - if I get those damn ads blocked.

Benchmark the two browsers: http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html

 

[cpu.]

Benchmark the two browsers: http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html

Firefox
Total: 579.1ms +/- 0.3%

Chrome
Total: 530.7ms +/- 1.3%

Not any reason to change from Firefox yet. (Not on my 384 line at least)
I have Virtualbox running sometimes and with the high memory usage of Chrome (and my 2GB memory) not an option. I can imagine with 8 to 10 tabs open, that Chrome's memory usage will be sky high.