Browser comparison: How the five leaders stack up in speed, ease of use and more

[Chiefcrowe]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2605...s-stack-up-in-speed-ease-of-use-and-more.html

 

[nemesismk2]

thanks chief for the browser comparison review link, interesting read. i will never stop using firefox with windows 7, windows xp and ubuntu.

 

[ninaholic37]

If sites like that one weren't filled with 90% ads, where you have to click on a 2nd page and see even more ads, browsers would run a lot better. This is why I only visit forums.

 

[John Connor]

No love for Pale Moon. I call shens.

 

[inf1nity]

They didn't mention lynx? Bullshit!

 

[zokudu]

I don't understand his obsession with memory usage. Modern Webkit scales very well up and down on memory usage, generally settling at ~10% of total system memory. His machine likely had 8GB of RAM hence the ~800MB of usage from Chrome and Opera. Did he even try testing on a machine with less RAM?

 

[maxi007]

I love firefox , but am not liking the new UI . performance is best than chrome and opera .

 

[inachu]

Chrome browser cheats in a way you could really get off on calling it a fake browser.

Sure you can browse the internet like you can in mozilla and IE but before it sends the data to your browser it uses a render farm located on a server to shrink the pages down so it loads faster on your pc.

There are options in Chrome to disable that function so that Chrome acts more like a real browser by disabling the feature but many opt not to do that.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

You can always use the Classic Theme restorer addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/?src=api

I love firefox , but am not liking the new UI . performance is best than chrome and opera .

 

[nemesismk2]

You can always use the Classic Theme restorer addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/?src=api

Classic Theme restorer sounds really interesting, if i don't like it how easy is it to remove?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

It is as simple as disabling the addon in the addons menu and restarting the browser, just like most other addons.

It seems to work quite well when I have used it.

Classic Theme restorer sounds really interesting, if i don't like it how easy is it to remove?

 

[John Connor]

Just use Pale Moon and be done with it. Why would you want to use a series of addons just to make Firefox look like Pale Moon? I switched and won't go back.

 

[WT]

Boss is pushing Chrome as our default browser, and pushing it HEAVILY. I have already run across several pages that don't like Chrome, and even today had a very basic desktop user ask me how to print within Chrome. I assumed it had the ability to add a print icon onto the toolbar menu, but nooooooo, this is Chrome !! We won't allow that.

I opened Firefox and showed her how I can add the print icon, move it here, there .. anywhere ! So I googled how to do this in Chrome - and the only workaround is to hit Ctrl-P. I knew that shortcut, but that's my job. The average Joe Blow has no freakin' idea what Ctrl-P does !

Note that I no longer use Firefox after v25. I've moved on to Pale Moon, but since we purchased 800 Chromebooks to go with the 400 from the year before, Chrome it is whether I like it or not.

 

[John Connor]

Chromebook is a abomination!

 

[ControlD]

I switched over to Chrome the day I bought an Android phone. The seamless syncing of bookmarks, tabs and searches between my phone and desktop is just too nice to get rid of. I have actually come to like the browser as well. Firefox certainly gives more options but Chrome works quite well out of the box.

 

[nemesismk2]

It is as simple as disabling the addon in the addons menu and restarting the browser, just like most other addons.

It seems to work quite well when I have used it.

i will try it out soon

i tried it out but prefer the regular firefox.