Any reason to use Chrome over FF?

[Scouzer]

I like Chrome better in every way except for two deal breaker flaws:

1) Some websites I visit often just don't work properly (Kijiji for example)
2) The ad blockers suck

I used Chrome for a few months but I came back to Firefox with 3.6

 

[crownjules]

I just prefer the minimalist approach that Chrome takes. Simple yet elegant. It has all the extensions from FF that I need and it also runs faster when you have a bunch of tabs open.

 

[ShawnD1]

Chrome is nice but not good enough. It lacks the ability to download youtube/blip videos.

 

[sourceninja]

Chrome is nice but not good enough. It lacks the ability to download youtube/blip videos.

http://www.chromeextensions.org/music-videos-photos/youtube-downloader/

Should be fairly easy to write extensions to do those things.

 

[phoenix79]

Netflix works just fine in Chrome. I agree with locking the links on the homepage though. That's been my one complaint since day one.

Um, you can... You can drag them into any order you want and pin them into place and they won't go anywhere after that.

 

[jEnus]

I've been using ChromePlus, built in functionality (like add blocker) that works very well.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Chrome is faster, more lightweight, and if a plugin (*cough flash*) crashes it wont take down the whole browser.

I actually used it for a few months, though I found it had weird bugs like checkboxes that vanish randomly, and I missed a few of my firefox addons so ended up going back to firefox.

I say, give it a try and see if you like it.

 

[Key West]

Chrome is my main browser, however I do use FF for Chrome's shortcomings:

*Chrome doesn't support drag & drop of images to Photoshop. I was surprised how primitive this is. I have to save, download, then find the image and open it in PS.

*Chrome's Adblock functions completely different than FF's despite being the exact same maker. FF blocks everything like a ghost whereas Chrome's pop up happens quite often and it still has to download THEN block.

 

[Adul]

Use both then . That is what I do. Developer tools for firefox is still way better than chrome, though chrome is snappier, I end up using both.

 

[sourceninja]

Use both then . That is what I do. Developer tools for firefox is still way better than chrome, though chrome is snappier, I end up using both.

I hear this a lot, but I have yet to come across something I need to do that I can't do with chrome's developer tools, but firebug can do.

 

[dwell]

*Chrome's Adblock functions completely different than FF's despite being the exact same maker. FF blocks everything like a ghost whereas Chrome's pop up happens quite often and it still has to download THEN block.

That's what you get when you use a web browser written by an advertising company.

 

[trmiv]

*Chrome's Adblock functions completely different than FF's despite being the exact same maker. FF blocks everything like a ghost whereas Chrome's pop up happens quite often and it still has to download THEN block.

This is why I don't use Chrome. I can't stand seeing the ads appear and then disappear. With FF I don't even they were there.

 

[intogamer]

HOSTS file + Adblock Plus FTW

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Chrome = win when browsing on netbooks/netbook-ish devices (hp dm3). The only con I can see is the excessively "freaking me out" phone home thing it does...every character you type into the "omnibar", sent to Google. Now they've got a little data miner in my pocket, all hail our new search overlords.

 

[sourceninja]

Chrome = win when browsing on netbooks/netbook-ish devices (hp dm3). The only con I can see is the excessively "freaking me out" phone home thing it does...every character you type into the "omnibar", sent to Google. Now they've got a little data miner in my pocket, all hail our new search overlords.

You know you can turn that off.

 

[OUCaptain]

One of my favorite features of Chrome is the highlight, right click, and google search feature. What annoys me is that google is so pretentious, their spell check always flags google if it doesn't have a capital g.

 

[Fox5]

Chrome is fast, but it lacks some plugins i use, and firefox has plugins to bring it on par with chrome feature. It looks like firefox 4.0 will catch up with chrome speed wise anyway.

Plus weave works with fennec and i dont like the idea of an advertising company watching everything i do and attaching it to my personal email and documents. I get the features i want in firefox without it being tied to my real world identity.

 

[speg]

Firefox jumped the shark a while ago... give it up!

 

[sourceninja]

Seems like as good of a place as any. I wrote a small extension for chrome to expand all those shortened URL's out there. http://bit.ly/b4Q5l9

 

[pcslookout]

Liking Chrome so far, got sick of FF crashing/slowing and Youtube videos lagging/not playing sound all the time.

Only complaint.. I wish Google search suggestions dropped down as you typed in text like with FF's search box. Anyone know how to get this?

Never happens here. I don't use flash though.

 

[Murloc]

Just formatted my laptop after letting my gf abuse the poor thing over the past few months and I was just installing programs and was wondering if I should try something besides FF / ABP.

try, if you don't find the new features useful then stick with what lets you make things faster.
If the computer is slow chrome may be faster, and that helps. It also has a tiny chrome so it's better if you have a low resolution.

 

[pcslookout]

try, if you don't find the new features useful then stick with what lets you make things faster.
If the computer is slow chrome may be faster, and that helps. It also has a tiny chrome so it's better if you have a low resolution.

Actually Opera is one of the quickest browsers for slow machines. Startup, tab switching, etc.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Opera's not bad, but IMX buggier than either Chrome or FF. I switched to Chrome about a month ago, FF had been giving me some RAM problems (IE 500MB used and only one browser tab open?) and the final straw was sitting down to a slow desktop, and FF had consume 1.5GB of RAM with only two tabs open. I said wtf, loaded up Chrome and keep on surfin. I still have FF installed for certain reasons, but I don't use it solely as before.

 

[pcslookout]

Opera's not bad, but IMX buggier than either Chrome or FF. I switched to Chrome about a month ago, FF had been giving me some RAM problems (IE 500MB used and only one browser tab open?) and the final straw was sitting down to a slow desktop, and FF had consume 1.5GB of RAM with only two tabs open. I said wtf, loaded up Chrome and keep on surfin. I still have FF installed for certain reasons, but I don't use it solely as before.

Chrome has crashed on me before as has Firefox. They all have. Just Opera is quicker for slower pcs.

Yeah I know what your talking about with firefox going to 500 MB used with only one tab open and leaving it open it goes all the way to 1.5 GB lol. That is when my crashes. The thing you don't understand is this problem is not caused by "Firefox". If you would of done tests trying to fix the problem everyone would see this. It can be different for everyone because Firefox is very customizable.

I can get chrome and internet explorer to have the same problem. Tried it.

 

[pcslookout]

Right now I have 10 tabs open in firefox and it is only using 113 MB of ram. I left it open overnight and ram usage did go above that.