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[messiaen]

I use Firefox because it's the only browser that has yet to be compromised by the United States government. Once the lizard people compromise Firefox, I'm going to turn off the Internet.

[thatshelby]

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[Derek]

Shoulda made it a poll.

Done!

[Jared C]

I use firefax but everyone says I need to try out chrome. I don't know what the differences are exactly. They seem pretty similar to me what with the widgets and wherewithal.

[Derek]

I like Chrome's interface better than Firefox and more importantly, it keeps each tab on a separate thread, so when you, for example, drag a tab somewhere, it won't refresh the tab. Nice because I watch a lot of videos while I'm working. You can also close tabs to free up memory, which is something you can't do in Firefox AFAIK.

When I used Firefox I'd have a bunch of tabs open that I wanted to save but I'd have to close them all because FF was hogging so much memory.

[Jared C]

Oh yeah, that is super annoying when that happens! It always refreshes when I am listening to Pandora (which is not a HUGE deal since it starts off right where it left in the previous window). It's also cool how in chrome if one tab crashes the rest are unaffected. You've successfully convinced me into downloading it, haha.

[Inanimate]

FF solved its memory leak problem on one of the more recent updates, or so my bro told me at least.

[alastair]

I've been using Firefox for a while mainly because I already have all my bookmarks in it and for the addon Foxreplace (so I can replace words or acronyms I don't like), but I like Chrome since it has better performance (especially with HTML5).

[Netsu]

Firefox because it blends nicely with my GTK theme, which I can't say about Chrome.

[anonymous]

Has anyone used Elinks?  It's a text-based browser in a linux terminal controlled primarily with the keyboard.  Some pages were impossible to get through.  It would have been nice if it also incorporated user created css styles, something like the plugin Stylebot for Chrome.

[JobLeonard]

I'm running Linux on my 1005HA, so for me it's all about performance, especially responsiveness. Chrome is just hard to beat in that regard, especially now that I've enabled all the GPU stuff in about:flags. I did not expect that to make a difference, but it doesn't "freeze" when loading a new anymore. So for the people with netbooks out there: try turning on the GPU acceleration in Chrome/Chromium. It might actually help, even with normal browsing. Chrome also makes better use of my limited screen space.


Sometimes websites don't quite load, but that's when Firefox turns out to be the reliable back-up plan.


So for me it's Chrome, with Firefox (with NoScript) as a backup.

(Does anyone know what turning on NaCL + PPAPI Flash actually does? It does appear to increase Flash performance a bit, but what's actually happening?)

[Falmil]

I use Chrome due to the memory problems Firefox has (had?), but I still wish its apps or whatever were as good/supported as Firefox's addons. There are a few things I miss.

Also, no matter what I do, I still end up with at least 50 tabs open that I neither want to finish reading or close. If I bookmark them, I don't know if I will ever get back to them, so they mostly just stay open session after session, taking up 100s of MB of memory. I need a system.

[1982]

[JobLeonard]

I use Chrome due to the memory problems Firefox has (had?), but I still wish its apps or whatever were as good/supported as Firefox's addons. There are a few things I miss.

Definately. I also miss "open with" as an option - often I just want to open and extract a zip, not download it then manually delete it afterwards!

Also, no matter what I do, I still end up with at least 50 tabs open that I neither want to finish reading or close. If I bookmark them, I don't know if I will ever get back to them, so they mostly just stay open session after session, taking up 100s of MB of memory. I need a system.

The thing is: with so many pages open you won't ever get to them either. You need to filter. Bookmark the sites that might serve as a good reference for something later, in an organised matter, and get rid of the rest.

Also, limit availability of "gateway websites" you don't need. I set a filter in my router (!) blocking 4chan, (most of) reddit, tvtopes, etc.

Google Reader (before it was destroyd) was blocked except between 18:00 and 21:00, as were a few other websites (like this forum, actually) and I got rid of a lot of feeds. That really helped in my case.

[Falmil]

The thing is: with so many pages open you won't ever get to them either. You need to filter. Bookmark the sites that might serve as a good reference for something later, in an organised matter, and get rid of the rest.

Its mostly...odd things. Some are webcomic archives that I will no longer need to keep open when I complete them, but still must read hundreds of pages of comics before I am done. Other stuff is tech articles that are somewhat "dense" that I want to read but am not in the right frame of mind to fully appreciate them. There are other things I want to look at, but "last" because of their relative importance.
I used to have everything open in one window, but one of Chrome's other flaws is that tabs will bunch up until they have no title or even fav icon and just become blank. If you go further, there will simply be too many tabs open and the "new tab" button will be covered by tabs but still visible. This leads to be needing about 3 different windows, some of which I don't even look at for a while, until I finally see that there are about 10 tabs on one I can close because I was done researching a thing about 6 hours ago and forgot to close them.