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Chrome, Firefox & Opera
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Engineer
Elite Member
After trying IE8 and having issues, I went back to IE7. Today, I fired up FF again, played around with a few customizations and just added Adblock Plus and all I can say is wow. Pages load faster than anything I've seen yet, and I mean by a lot. Also added Tab Homepage so that I can open a new tab with the default homepage loaded instead of just a blank.
I might just make it my default browser.
I might just make it my default browser.
Random Variable
Lifer
I think I like Safari 4 for Windows more than I like Chrome.
Modelworks
Lifer
I like FF but it is slow. Chrome has some page rendering issues. Safari is very fast, pages appear in a second if the site is fast enough. Problem is some sites don't work with safari. For that matter some don't work with anything but IE 🙁
I tried a bunch of browsers, Including the new IE8, but only Safari passed the acid test.
http://www.acidtests.org/
I tried a bunch of browsers, Including the new IE8, but only Safari passed the acid test.
http://www.acidtests.org/
I recently tried a version of Chrome, called SRWare Iron that some poster on Slashdot was swearing up and down had an adblocker. I was surprised to find it actually ran slower than Firefox with AdBlock Plus! I figured maybe the lack of cached data was the problem, but I then ran it through my caching proxy Polipo, and Iron was still slower. Iron also showed at least a couple of ads, so I don't think it has an ad blocker.
On the other hand, the list of privacy issues with Chrome, combined with the performance of Iron, has convinced me never to try the original Chrome.
Tempered81
Diamond Member
I use firefox 3, chrome 2 beta, opera 9.6, ie7, and safari 4 on my atom netbook.
firefox 3 is slow to open, but only because i use about 10 addons with it, and keep about 20 combined tabs open between two windows. I have the toolsbars minimized in size and have a fullscreen button. Once its open and cached into ram, it runs fine. I use firefox tweaknetwork, adblock plus, tabmix, fullerscreen, download helper, foxclock, zoomtoolbar, and a few others. pretty solid, and i like how it remembers authenticated sessions.
ie7 is the standard, have to use it for windows update, and to stream media player internet radio for my local stations. Its the slowest of the 5 and only comes in as a backup.
safari 4 is quite fast. I love the top viewed sites tab. It blacks out the screen and gives it the ipod/iphone interface feel to the browser. I have a similiar addon in ff3 that displays all of my open tabs in a large grid with a dimmed background. safari is fast, neat, and streamlined. It uses multiple processes and a lot of ram like ff3.
chrome / chrome2 beta is fast, and loads quickest of the bunch, like opera. I like that it has the tabs in the title bar, yet it isnt very customizeable. Overall it is the fastest, and i really like how it opens each tab as a new process. It also has a nice home page that organizes bookmarks and frequently visited sites. It has a download tab built in which is nice. It is the fastest of the bunch, but cant block ads like ff3 without forcing the addition of adblock via coding. I really like firefoxs addons. My dell mini 9 has no apostrophe key so excuse my punctuation. chrome is good.
Opera i just got a few days ago, It has a built in torrent downloader which is very neat. It has plenty of customizeable buttons in the toolbar, and overall it has the FULLEST fullscreen ever. this is great for netbooks. Once i was viewing a high def photo fullscreen and dragging it around via mouse gestures and middle click. I was in fullscreen mode, and when i right clicked, the menu didnt have a way to exit fs mode. I couldnt f11 out and for a second i felt like a moron stuck on a fullscreen image. Very nice fullscreen to sum it up. heheh. opera runs quick too, and uses one process for multiple tabs. Very customizeable, takes some learning to get used to mouse gestures. Its about as fast as chrome2 with more options.
Im using mostly chrome for speed and simplicity. Firefox is second for addons and customizations. opera and safari are backups, and ie7 is used only when needed.
firefox 3 is slow to open, but only because i use about 10 addons with it, and keep about 20 combined tabs open between two windows. I have the toolsbars minimized in size and have a fullscreen button. Once its open and cached into ram, it runs fine. I use firefox tweaknetwork, adblock plus, tabmix, fullerscreen, download helper, foxclock, zoomtoolbar, and a few others. pretty solid, and i like how it remembers authenticated sessions.
ie7 is the standard, have to use it for windows update, and to stream media player internet radio for my local stations. Its the slowest of the 5 and only comes in as a backup.
safari 4 is quite fast. I love the top viewed sites tab. It blacks out the screen and gives it the ipod/iphone interface feel to the browser. I have a similiar addon in ff3 that displays all of my open tabs in a large grid with a dimmed background. safari is fast, neat, and streamlined. It uses multiple processes and a lot of ram like ff3.
chrome / chrome2 beta is fast, and loads quickest of the bunch, like opera. I like that it has the tabs in the title bar, yet it isnt very customizeable. Overall it is the fastest, and i really like how it opens each tab as a new process. It also has a nice home page that organizes bookmarks and frequently visited sites. It has a download tab built in which is nice. It is the fastest of the bunch, but cant block ads like ff3 without forcing the addition of adblock via coding. I really like firefoxs addons. My dell mini 9 has no apostrophe key so excuse my punctuation. chrome is good.
Opera i just got a few days ago, It has a built in torrent downloader which is very neat. It has plenty of customizeable buttons in the toolbar, and overall it has the FULLEST fullscreen ever. this is great for netbooks. Once i was viewing a high def photo fullscreen and dragging it around via mouse gestures and middle click. I was in fullscreen mode, and when i right clicked, the menu didnt have a way to exit fs mode. I couldnt f11 out and for a second i felt like a moron stuck on a fullscreen image. Very nice fullscreen to sum it up. heheh. opera runs quick too, and uses one process for multiple tabs. Very customizeable, takes some learning to get used to mouse gestures. Its about as fast as chrome2 with more options.
Im using mostly chrome for speed and simplicity. Firefox is second for addons and customizations. opera and safari are backups, and ie7 is used only when needed.
just to add, you can use your google bookmarks in opera (without the use of the google toolbar) if you are logged into your google account and then go to google.com/bookmarks/ and they will show up there. You can manipulate them through the nav bar on the left. Not as convenient, but very handy nonetheless
The Keeper
Senior member
Personally I like Chrome a lot, especially the new 2.0 beta. It's so much faster than any other browser I've tried so far. Except Opera which I don't like at all and thus haven't bothered trying lately.
Anyway, Firefox's addons aren't a big selling point to me because I use none. That's right, I don't use any of the addons. They're handy at times but they don't have anything I couldn't live without, or even need on daily basis. In this light Chrome is to me exactly what the doctor ordered. A fast, lean browser. The only problems Chrome has are some bugs here and there but they're getting squashed at steady pace, it is a very new browser after all.
Unless 2.0 beta (and eventually final) has major bugs, I'm not going back to Firefox. I've only used 2.0 beta a few days though.
Anyway, Firefox's addons aren't a big selling point to me because I use none. That's right, I don't use any of the addons. They're handy at times but they don't have anything I couldn't live without, or even need on daily basis. In this light Chrome is to me exactly what the doctor ordered. A fast, lean browser. The only problems Chrome has are some bugs here and there but they're getting squashed at steady pace, it is a very new browser after all.
Unless 2.0 beta (and eventually final) has major bugs, I'm not going back to Firefox. I've only used 2.0 beta a few days though.
Here is a quick explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qws9APME4C4
This explains it pretty well and goes into detail of what all it does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0CVgZqvhHs
martensite
Senior member
I never liked FF or Chrome the first time I tried them.
It's always Opera for me.
And IE7 for those nasty banking sites that refuse to work with opera.
It's always Opera for me.
And IE7 for those nasty banking sites that refuse to work with opera.
Opera has always been my favorite since I first tried it 3 or 4 years ago, but I use FF mostly for the Add-ons. IE crashes on me every time I open more than about 8 pages, or at least once a day even if I don't, so I won't use it... period. Chrome was ok, but when I switched to Windows 7 beta it wouldn't run at all. Maybe the new beta will work with RC1 coming out; I can try it again. So, basically, I have lots of pages open in both FF and Opera at all times and both are usually open on my desktop.
I use FF most of the time because of the extension but it does render a little on the slow side.
Chrome is to stripped down not enough features for me.
Opera- meh it's ok but some of the sites i hit don't work properly on it.
I have been checking out IE 8 and it looks promising to me so far.
Chrome is to stripped down not enough features for me.
Opera- meh it's ok but some of the sites i hit don't work properly on it.
I have been checking out IE 8 and it looks promising to me so far.
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