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OK I'm switching to Chrome partially.

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As for my stupid online games where I have a load of greasemonkey scripts, I leave those on FF.

For everything else I'll use Chrome. Extensions for Chrome like XMarks and AdThwart should do the trick for now. It's just way faster.

FF is more powerful, but with Chrome catching up, we'll have to see if it's still worth it.
 
as a forced chrome user (i guess i'm going to have to reformat to unfuck firefox), allow me to point something out-

it sucks fat donkey balls.
 
Firefox 3.6 should be improved speed wise so you may want to check that out. i think release of that is very soon.
 
DLeRium said:
Hmmm. I turn off NoScript so much though because it gets in the way of a lot of things that I just leave it off now... hmm.
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One or maybe two extra clicks vs several clicks and accompanying mouse movement to take care of annoying adds or pop-ups, some of which contain sound at loud volumes. The sites I consistently go to are cleared, those I don't I clear as I hit if I think they're legit.
 
I also think how it's sad that the typical sheeple go "OMG where have you been, I've been using chrome for ages?"

My response: Have you used chrome extensions or firefox extensions?
Them: WTF is that?

Well yeah based on basic browsing, I'd probably pick Chrome over FF, but with FF's powerful features, you have to say it makes a compelling case to stay.
 
Agreed, the key to NS is just building a solid white list (i.e. bank/forums/CC/etc.). Turning it off entirely is defeating the very purpose of NS to begin with.

As for Chrome, its adblocking extension offerings are pretty rough but I expect they will improve over time. Not having NoScript, however, is why Chrome remains on the sidelines for me.
 
Adthwart and every other related extension for Chrome just aren't very good. I'm surprised how many people actually are actually content with those.

They don't actually block anything. They remove the ads after the page is loaded because Chrome doesn't allow for blocking requests. Seeing ads pop up and disappear is more annoying than just leaving them alone lol
 
jkroeder said:
Adthwart and every other related extension for Chrome just aren't very good. I'm surprised how many people actually are actually content with those.

They don't actually block anything. They remove the ads after the page is loaded because Chrome doesn't allow for blocking requests. Seeing ads pop up and disappear is more annoying than just leaving them alone lol
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AdMuncher is a stand-alone program that runs in the background. It doesn't care which browser you're using 🙂

It blocks ads from MSN Messenger for example (the ones from the main window) or advertisements inside movies. I was trying Hulu for a moment and it even blocked those advertisements at start/inside the movies there. It's awesome 😀
 
Firefox 3.5 sent me running to Chrome. Firefox 3.6 + an SSD brought my back to FF.

Chrome has become more and more buggy with each release.
 
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jkroeder said:
Adthwart and every other related extension for Chrome just aren't very good. I'm surprised how many people actually are actually content with those.

They don't actually block anything. They remove the ads after the page is loaded because Chrome doesn't allow for blocking requests. Seeing ads pop up and disappear is more annoying than just leaving them alone lol
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Yeah, this irritates me. I'm just using a modded hosts file right now + adthwart (for formatting).
 
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Love Chrome, made me ditch FF when it started acting up and getting very slow for me over a year ago (yet I loved FF before then). Chrome made me realize that a very simple yet elegant layout is better and I really don't need the majority of fancy features or add-ons. I keep Explorer for redundancy to load the rare page or add-on that Chrome doesn't bode well with like M$ pages such as hotmail or video grabbers.
 
irishScott said:
Chrome's nice, but you'll be wishing you had noscript the next time you go porn-hunting.
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Are you on some weird russian pedophile site or something? I don't think I've ever seen tube8 try to execute weird scripts before.


I'm partially switched to Chrome for the time being. Usually I use Opera but lately the tabs have been freezing.
 
Qbah said:
Chrome + AdMuncher = win 😀
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Agree 100%.
I didn't want to pay for a program that blocks ads with so many free ones out, but I tried the program and it just blew me away at how well it worked.

Sits in the systray and works for ANY browser installed. Also blocks ads in flash video, IM programs, scripts, and you can customize it for just about anything.

Admuncher was well worth the cost. Just a small exe , install and never look at ads again.
 
KingstonU said:
Love Chrome, made me ditch FF when it started acting up and getting very slow for me over a year ago (yet I loved FF before then). Chrome made me realize that a very simple yet elegant layout is better and I really don't need the majority of fancy features or add-ons. I keep Explorer for redundancy to load the rare page or add-on that Chrome doesn't bode well with like M$ pages such as hotmail or video grabbers.
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This is something I have looked at a lot lately. I want a browser that is just a browser. I don't want email, news, the latest web API. I just want to look at sites and keep my bookmarks.
 
Chrome made me realize that a very simple yet elegant layout is better and I really don't need the majority of fancy features or add-ons.
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+1

I just want a basic browser that opens quickly and doesn't crash when I have 8 to 15 tabs open.
 
Modelworks said:
Agree 100%.
I didn't want to pay for a program that blocks ads with so many free ones out, but I tried the program and it just blew me away at how well it worked.

Sits in the systray and works for ANY browser installed. Also blocks ads in flash video, IM programs, scripts, and you can customize it for just about anything.

Admuncher was well worth the cost. Just a small exe , install and never look at ads again.
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And I got my license for it when it was still "valid until 5.0 is released". They changed their licensing scheme to a yearly type now, so I'd have to think for 2 more seconds before giving them my money, but at the time I was purchasing it, it was a sweet sweet deal 🙂
 
KingstonU said:
Love Chrome, made me ditch FF when it started acting up and getting very slow for me over a year ago (yet I loved FF before then). Chrome made me realize that a very simple yet elegant layout is better and I really don't need the majority of fancy features or add-ons. I keep Explorer for redundancy to load the rare page or add-on that Chrome doesn't bode well with like M$ pages such as hotmail or video grabbers.
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The thing is FF without addons is blazing fast too. I'm sure if you loaded Chrome up with all the bells and whistles of FF it would slow down to hell too.
 
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