Firefox >>> Chrome

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Duder1no

Duder1no

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I love Firefox but truth is I've found myself using chrome a lot lately, it is much speedier than FF

Still FF easily owns Chrome in the addons department
 
Avalon

Avalon

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Firefox was good, but I just love the speed and minimalist nature of Chrome. Haven't looked back.
 
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CurseTheSky

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Chrome.

I do like Firefox 4 a lot better than 3.5/3.6, and it sort of makes me laugh that they finally got the hint and put the tabs up where the title bar normally is (saving screen space). For me it's too little, too late though. Chrome's syncing features are one of the biggest reasons I use it.
 
Fritzo

Fritzo

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dwell said:
Chrome sacrifices rendering things wonky at first for a few milliseconds of perceived loading speed. IIRC FF has about:config setting that can do the same.

I will not use Chrome until they come up with a way to disable those ghetto site icons that litter the UI like browser.chrome.favicons=false does. I wrote a Chrome extension to try and do it but their extension APIs are ineffective in blocking the icons. I even blocked http[s?]://*.ico on a proxy and Chrome still was able to render the Google and Gmail site icons. I fucking despise those things.
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Hmm....if you run http://html5test.com/ it comes out with a 17& higher score than Firefox 4.

As for the icons, can't help you there, but that's a pretty weird thing to bug you.
 
destrekor

destrekor

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Firefox used to be my main browser (3.6 and earlier), then I dabbled into Opera 10 and liked it a lot, but hadn't set it as default browser (though I used it almost as much as or more than Firefox).
Then Opera 11 took my breath away.

Firefox 4 RC is great (gotta update to final still), but I haven't decided if it has edged out Opera 11 just yet. Currently enjoying the pair of Opera 11 as default, Firefox 4 for a few things, including sites that just don't cooperate with Opera 11.

I'm going to have to give Chrome another try with the latest release, as I just couldn't really stand it all that much... but I don't think I ever got above Chrome 5. I couldn't keep track of the version number changes, they considered too much to be new version worthy. They'll be on Chrome 30 or a new name before Mozilla releases a Firefox 5.0. :D

IE9 blows every other IE out of the water, and I'm comfortable using it as a "backup" for when I have sites that I struggle with using either Opera or my Firefox install that has a ton of addons and customizations. Chrome 10, if worthy, might do the trick to replace IE9, though some military sites can be a bitch using anything but IE, and I'm not sure I really want 4 browsers installed. I already think 3 is overkill, but no one browser can tackle every single site I come across, or they have their quirks that I prefer to do specific tasks on a specific browser... I can justify 3 browsers, not 4. :p
 
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Alienwho

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When I first started using chrome a couple years ago the blocked ad's did load initially and then turn invisible. This however has not been the case for at least a year.
 
TridenT

TridenT

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Alienwho said:
When I first started using chrome a couple years ago the blocked ad's did load initially and then turn invisible. This however has not been the case for at least a year.
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That's where you're wrong. That video was made March 6th, 2010 with the latest version of Chrome and whatever adblocker. I'm never going back to Chrome because I know it still will happen. It's how fucking Chrome works. Google will not ever have shit blocked before it loads. It would be against their revenue model.
 
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Alienwho

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TridenT said:
That's where you're wrong. That video was made March 6th, 2010 with the latest version of Chrome and whatever adblocker. I'm never going back to Chrome because I know it still will happen. It's how fucking Chrome works. Google will not ever have shit blocked before it loads. It would be against their revenue model.
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Actually, that's where you're wrong. This is the adblock I use: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom .

And with this adblock, the ad's are not initially displayed and then turned invisible when the page finishes loading. Now whether or not the ad's are still being loaded behind the scenes may be a different story, but this doesn't change the fact that they are not loaded in the manner listed in your video. WTF do I care if google makes money if the ad's are loaded in the background.
 
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Alienwho

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Looking at your stupid video again, you are obviously using an inferior adblock program. That is the one I initially used as well until the REAL adblocker came out. Linked above. Congrats on being wrong though.
 
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xSauronx

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i switched to chrome recently after having a retarded amount of issues with firefox that is, as far as i could tell, related to plugins. chrome finally is about where i wanted it to be when i started looking for a firefox alternative a few years ago

/android user
//google owns my soul, and im fine with that
 
Locut0s

Locut0s

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Alienwho said:
Actually, that's where you're wrong. This is the adblock I use: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom .

And with this adblock, the ad's are not initially displayed and then turned invisible when the page finishes loading. Now whether or not the ad's are still being loaded behind the scenes may be a different story, but this doesn't change the fact that they are not loaded in the manner listed in your video. WTF do I care if google makes money if the ad's are loaded in the background.
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I can confirm this is the case. Ads don't load at all for me.
 
edro

edro

Lifer
Apr 5, 2002
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For the past month, Firefox (at work) will not load my Gmail inbox through partnerpage.google.com/mysite.
I have switched to Chrome, I like it, and it fixed the problem.
 
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ShawnD1

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May 24, 2003
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Scouzer said:
Chrome >>> Firefox

It deals with retarded Flash updates all on its own.
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Flash is 99% of why I'm using Chrome right now. God damn retard web designers make their website flash based, it lags out the whole browser, and sometimes it will even take down the browser. Last week I was posting some stuff and I had a flash website open. Flash crashed Firefox so I lost what I was typing.

Big companies are the worst for this bullshit. Look at a website for McDonalds or Acura and watch the cpu load in task manager.
 
TridenT

TridenT

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Alienwho said:
Actually, that's where you're wrong. This is the adblock I use: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom .

And with this adblock, the ad's are not initially displayed and then turned invisible when the page finishes loading. Now whether or not the ad's are still being loaded behind the scenes may be a different story, but this doesn't change the fact that they are not loaded in the manner listed in your video. WTF do I care if google makes money if the ad's are loaded in the background.
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I used MORE THAN ONE. I tried many. I used the ones suggested and ones not suggested. They all did it.

And the problem with that shit loading is that they can track what you do all over the internet and eventually link you to all kinds of shit. Distorting a lot of things.
 
zerocool84

zerocool84

Lifer
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TridenT said:
I used MORE THAN ONE. I tried many. I used the ones suggested and ones not suggested. They all did it.

And the problem with that shit loading is that they can track what you do all over the internet and eventually link you to all kinds of shit. Distorting a lot of things.
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My Chrome with Adblock Plus doesn't load any of them. Plus your computer loads Anandntech slow.
 
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