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I've used Firefox for years and years now, and I love it so much. I've gotten so accustomed to everything it has, all the plugins, all the hotkeys, everything. Even at school on macs, with safari there, I just automatically open firefox anyway.
But recently after being frustrated with its huge resource uses on my old laptop that could barely handle it, I decided to try out Google Chrome.
And I fell in love with it.
And now I am so conflicted! Chrome is so amazing and I love it so much, but I feel so terrible to abandon firefox like that. Right now I'm at a happy medium of using chrome on my laptop and firefox on my desktop, but I keep feeling the urge to install chrome on both. But I don't know what I would do without firefox either~
I feel like I'm in a terrible love affair. u______u
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damn that firefox chick is hawt.
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I've yet to try Chrome - I've been sucked in far enough by Google already, Gmail, Gtalk, the calendar, now I have a Google Voice beta invite and a #.... I fear what would happen if I went to Chrome.
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Have they fixed the bugs with flash on chrome yet? It seemed like pages with flash took up a ton of resources with chrome last time I tried it and I believe most users had the same problem.
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On August 15 2009 22:27 Shauni wrote:
Have they fixed the bugs with flash on chrome yet? It seemed like pages with flash took up a ton of resources with chrome last time I tried it and I believe most users had the same problem.
I'm honestly not sure because I can never tell still if it's just my crappy laptop, or the browser. ;p I'll have to try it on a different computer sometime to see.
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I switched to Chrome ages ago, it's a lot faster and I love having my most visited websites tiled out on one page. Although admittedly Firefox has only started acting sluggish since I installed Chrome.. interesting.
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On August 15 2009 22:31 Energies wrote:
I switched to Chrome ages ago, it's a lot faster and I love having my most visited websites tiled out on one page. Although admittedly Firefox has only started acting sluggish since I installed Chrome.. interesting.
chrome is sabotaging you firefox
i use firefox ( havent tried chrome) but both are better than ie ><
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On August 15 2009 22:34 JohnColtrane wrote:
i use firefox ( havent tried chrome) but both are better than ie ><
So are my droppings, you know.
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That firefox chick has way to much hair for my taste, u damn furry lover :p
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Google is gonna conquer the world someday. I bet my left testicle.
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On August 15 2009 22:47 ChaseR wrote:
That firefox chick has way to much hair for my taste, u damn furry lover :p
Yeah, she´s got some serious pussyhair problems...
Wait a minute! Are those coming from her ass...
I´m glad I use Opera.
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On August 15 2009 22:47 ChaseR wrote:
That firefox chick has way to much hair for my taste, u damn furry lover :p
hey I just found it for all the guys here, haha D: if it were up to me it'd be some hot guy instead lolol
yiff yiff
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This happened to me a week ago. I LOVE CHROME.
And I have no regrets. 
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I use both Firefox and Opera. Opera is fast and efficient, it never gets to the point where it's using all of my system resources, but there are some Firefox addons that I can't live without (eg Greasemonkey that I use for certain sites). So I chose both
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Ever since I looked at the speed statistics, I never enjoyed FireFox again. No guilt leaving the relationship.
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On August 15 2009 23:15 clazziquai wrote:This happened to me a week ago. I LOVE CHROME. And I have no regrets.
I'd be so sad with no firefox in my life T_T haha
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I'm completely in love with chrome. It's really awesome, didn't have the slightest regret while making the switch.
I still have FF installed though, it's always good to have a spare browser imo...
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Unless you're using plugins, you should probably be using Chrome beta: http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/
If you've got a bunch of FF plugins you love, stick with that. Otherwise, for me, Chrome is cleaner and a good bit faster. Also, http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ is kind of interesting. It shows you how well Chrome handles the new HTML5 stuff, as well as some other more common plugins.
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Opera is the best. I have tryed them all, and FF is just horrible compared to the others. Chrome and FF just copy Opera.
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I always though that the chrome symbol looked like a pokeball... Anyways, I use chrome and I like it better than FF 
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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.
This many times over.
Fuck FF.
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As a developer, Firefox just makes your life so easy. This is the only reason I don't use Chrome. Otherwise, I would.
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I'm not really sure about google. They seem a little too commercial in a wewanttoconquertheworld kind of way. They've got really good stuff, though.
I had firefox for a while, but like others the amount of resources it takes up was too much for me. Now it's opera all the way and I haven't looked back yet
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Firefox is not my preferred browser, but I can't live without adblock, so I am stuck with it
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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.
this.
opera > chrome > FF
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So can those who freshly fell in love with chrome explain what they like better about it than firefox?
I just started it, it looks a bit stylisher but... don't get whats so great about it yet.
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i never switched to chrome and i was happy at that
how can you have something for years then easily ditch it for some blown out of proportion commercialized browser that had no history?
without the addons chrome is absolutely useless anyways, and when firefox 3.5 came out it sealed the deal for me
tracemonkey is a new java engine that made firefox 3-4 times faster then before
and all the people talking about memory usage LOL
heres some tests
memory usage
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On August 16 2009 00:41 7mk wrote:
So can those who freshly fell in love with chrome explain what they like better about it than firefox?
I just started it, it looks a bit stylisher but... don't get whats so great about it yet.
people tend to hop on a bandwagon so easily, even when it fails at sooo many aspects
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@food: to me, I've been using Firefox all my life, but it really started getting buggier, which annoyed me. Everytime I watch a YouTube video, it stutters like every 10-20 seconds which irritates me. Also, websites load not as fast as Chrome :p My personal preference though.
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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.
Opera is a beast of a browser, and it's the only one I can tolerate anymore.
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My story is the same.
A few years ago, I was actually converting people to Firefox, spreading the word etc.
But since I tried Chrome, there's no need to run any other browser for regular day-to-day browsing.
You see all your important pages whenever you open the browser.
Searching, and finding sites from the history is much easier.
The browser itself occupies less space on the screen, so you watch more of the website, less of the browser.
It's just better than any other browser.
There are still a few things they might improve, so it can only get better.
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On August 16 2009 00:51 clazziquai wrote:
@food: to me, I've been using Firefox all my life, but it really started getting buggier, which annoyed me. Everytime I watch a YouTube video, it stutters like every 10-20 seconds which irritates me. Also, websites load not as fast as Chrome :p My personal preference though.
you can customize firefox so easily though
have you tried latest version? the only browser that could be faster is chrome and even then it depends what pages you are loading. Its literally faster by milliseconds lol
after tweaking firefox you can improve its performance by A LOT. check out this link, small example( you can do so much more too)
tuning FF
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Chrome runs better for me as well. Part of that is probably all my live bookmarks and addons on Firefox. But ultimately I made Chrome my default because it runs faster and smoother for me.
There's two issues with Chrome that bug me:
1. There's no popup or warning when you close multiple tabs. It's REALLY annoying accidentally closing 10 tabs from a misclick. There's some other methods to help prevent this like loading previously closed tabs and stuff, but I'd rather have the popup prevent it. My internet isn't terribly fast so it's especially annoying if you were buffering a long youtube or gomtv vid.
2. Flash video screws up on it sometimes. If you use a lot of Youtube on Chrome, you know what I'm talking about. The video loads up completely black. You don't get a Pause/Play option or the progress bar. The whole bottom area is black. This never happens on Firefox or even IE so I'm not sure what's causing it. Refreshing several times will usually fix it, but a few times I got annoyed and just opened it up in another browser.
I might give the new Firefox a try sometime and just delete all my Live bookmarks to see if that fixes the lag issues.
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On August 16 2009 00:04 Pokebunny wrote:I always though that the chrome symbol looked like a pokeball... Anyways, I use chrome and I like it better than FF
oi. same. i used chrome and i like it better than FF and opera. I never liked opera. it was really slow and such. :|
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yea just to be fair try install FF anew, no bookmarks/history/apps. Follow some guides on improving its speed, will definitely not fail you
edit: yea some people love opera some just dont get it, im the one that doesnt ~_~
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I like Chrome. A lot. But until it can do everything I can do with Firefox I won't switch to it. I just spent 2 weeks exclusively on it and couldn't switch over, Firefox is just better for the time being.
As for Opera, psh forget that it has as far to go as Chrome does.
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I thought chrome keeps a log of the websites and stuff that you go to. Google has enough of my search information, thanks =/
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dude, im a chrome user too, cheers!
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On August 16 2009 01:11 ghostWriter wrote:
I thought chrome keeps a log of the websites and stuff that you go to. Google has enough of my search information, thanks =/
LOL indeed
Don't recognize the names? Time to reread 1984! Google says its credo is "do no evil" - burrow down 5-6 levels of its privacy statements AND those of ad company DoubleClick, a wholly-owned subsidiary, and you'll see a company dedicated to tracking your every move and selling that info to advertisers,etc. GB makes it even easier for Google to collect "impersonnal" info, which apparently means everything but your *name* and DClick doesn't even protect that! Read the news at eff.org,protect yrself best you can w/Firefox, ask for new laws but do not use this product.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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I use Chrome, and it's fucking awesome.
Never even heard of or seen Opera.
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Couldnt live without Firebug/Greasemonkey/NoScript :\
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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needs pics of the Chrome, IE and Opera girls to decide
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On August 16 2009 05:37 starfries wrote:
needs pics of the Chrome, IE and Opera girls to decide
so far i only found these
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EPT![[image loading]](http://www.fedoraforum.org/gallery/file_4gallery/5/7/5/9/1765ffox-wp-1024a.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://www.kongtechnology.com/images/google-chrome.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7049/kyybi.jpg)
![[image loading]](http://www.globalnanpa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/gangsta-google.jpg)
