Cheating on my true (internet browser) love - Page 3

Railz

United States1449 Posts

August 15 2009 17:28 GMT

#41

I'm in the same boat. I use two monitors and chrome's ability to create a new window out of one of the tabs is lovely for when I want to drag out a live stream to my non-work/game monitor. I know firefox has that ability as well but chromes is quicker. I never really used ad-block or anything big with Firefox, though I do miss snap-links..

PanN

United States2828 Posts

August 15 2009 17:34 GMT

#42

On August 16 2009 02:28 Railz wrote:
I'm in the same boat. I use two monitors and chrome's ability to create a new window out of one of the tabs is lovely for when I want to drag out a live stream to my non-work/game monitor. I know firefox has that ability as well but chromes is quicker. I never really used ad-block or anything big with Firefox, though I do miss snap-links..

Opera has had the same thing forever.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

August 15 2009 17:49 GMT

#43

On August 15 2009 23:33 Neivler wrote:
Opera is the best. I have tryed them all, and FF is just horrible compared to the others. Chrome and FF just copy Opera.

That entirely depends. As others have said, developing for/with Firefox is MUCH easier, and thus makes it easier to take advantage of that development. It's not faster or more powerful from basic functionality (I'm still annoyed that FF doesn't run separate tabs as separate processes), but makes up for it in extensibility. Basically, Opera is probably better out of the box, but Firefox is better if you take the time to get involved with it.

There's not really one you could call "the best". You might have a preference based on your needs and usage, but that's going to be specific to you.

food

United States1951 Posts

August 15 2009 17:58 GMT

#44

COME ON

Meth

Canada396 Posts

August 15 2009 17:59 GMT

#45

I use Chrome, and it's fucking awesome.

Never even heard of or seen Opera.

Ethenielle

Norway1006 Posts

August 15 2009 18:21 GMT

#46

Couldnt live without Firebug/Greasemonkey/NoScript :\

gchan

United States654 Posts

August 15 2009 19:08 GMT

#47

I have to admit Google Chrome is pretty fast compared to other browsers out there, but I'm personally an Opera user. Opera is as fast as Chrome, but a lot of websites aren't coded for Opera so there are more hanging load times than I would like. The tradeoff though is customized hotkeys; browsing with hands in starcraft positions is full of win.

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

August 15 2009 19:47 GMT

#48

If you are choosing chrome over FF (at this point in time at least), it means you aren't using all the useful plug-ins.

Revabug

United Kingdom147 Posts

August 15 2009 19:55 GMT

#49

When I tried Google Chrome I missed:

Keyword Searches (set up so I can type 'y starcraft' in the browser bar to search for starcraft on youtube)
The mechanic where you just type a word of the page's name in the browser (like part of the video title) and it shows you all pages with that word in their 'titles'
User plug-ins/themes/customizability (I really don't know if that's a word)

Are these things implemented now? If so I'll join the Google Chrome wagon straight away

foeffa

Belgium2115 Posts

August 15 2009 20:15 GMT

#50

I got all of em, FF and Chrome as wel as Opera (and IE obviously). I don't use Opera, Chrome I use for its speed and it being seemingly lightweight, FF is the one I use most thought, but just because all my extensions are in it and I need the functionality. Also made life a lot easier when I was interning as a software developer with things like live http headers and the code inspection plugins etc.