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Why Chrome is inferior and always will be inferior

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dwell said:
It's simple.

Google disallows extensions from parsing the page before it's rendered by the browser. Why? Because Google is an advertising company who makes their money off of ads and analytic data. Allowing an extension to muck with the page content leads to all sorts of bad things for Google, like proper ad and analytic blocking. This is why ad blockers do not work on Chrome as well as they do on Firefox (and never will).

Chrome is an "open source" browser written by an advertising company. Firefox is an open source browser written by the community.

Use Firefox and disable ad-blocking for the sites you support, like Anandtech!

/rant
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Agreed, but Chrome has its merits. We just need to make Firefox adopt them (like individual processes).
 
arcenite said:
Chrome > Firefox

Sorry.
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As a pure browser? Yes.
It is faster, able to handle shitty plugins acting up (Flash, Java, I'm looking at you!), and just remains snappy and is just great to use. It's a beast, did I mention it was fast? Fast loading at initial startup, and websites load real quick-like.

Sure, Firefox is moving to place plugins as separate processes, so that if they crash, the browser does not. Ideally.

But what browser do I continue to use as my daily neffing tool? The one that I almost always end up having 50+ tabs opened within?
Firefox.

For plugins and neat tools from the development community, it's just pure win.

If I'm going to a site I just know tends to draw a ton of processing power, I'll open it in Chrome. At this point, having both Firefox and Chrome open all the time has been the norm.

If I want to watch a video, be it youtube, hulu, or any other flash video site, it gets opened in Chrome because it basically always has a slight stutter every few moments in Firefox.

And Firefox is a memory whore.

But I still :wub: Firefox. 🙂 It's everything that is available for it. I have so many modifications, plugins, and whatnot, it just feels right for almost every task.
 
Which would you say is better on old computers? Like P4 1GHZ with 1GB of memory?

As well as which is better on newest hardware?
 
Mike Gayner said:
I would use Failfox, but I prefer my browser to not be a fat, ugly, insecure bloated piece of shit.
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Ironic, Firefox used to be recommended as an IE substitute because IE was exactly what you described.

Oh, and because it was/is cool to hate anything from Microsoft
 
Opera mini works good. Does the new one support flash? Skyfire works pretty decent if you need to check out a flash site or something. For desktop I use lynx. It's supa fast.
 
dwell said:
The speed advantage disappears when you're downloading and rendering 1MB of ads per page load on Chrome when of FF + adblock it's never requested in the first place.
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It's still faster than your pasty bloated sack of shit browser, FireFucked.
 
Chrome, for me, is unusable, because of how much it lags while I'm doing a 3D rendering. It's seriously embarrassing, and I don't know how Google calls this browser anywhere near ready when it has this glaring defect.

If I'm trying to use Chrome while doing a render, it's impossible. Opening a new tab and navigating to a new page seriously takes anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute, while FireFox breezes around the web without hesitation. Chrome is the only application that lags at all when all cores are at 100% activity. That, to me, lower than poor performance.

Chrome while not rendering though, is sweet.
 
Oh no, something got slow while all my cpu cores are at 100%! What the crap! How DARE my computer be slow, no matter what I throw at it!
 
Fritzo said:
Firefox extensions also make it the most hackable, insecure browser. Nice choice.
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Because everyone goes to sketchy warez sites where they're just asking for it.. I forgot we all do that apparently. :thumbsdown: fail troll fail...


And FIREFOX FOR TEH WINZ... Fucking hate chrome because of that stupid shit it does. Fucks with my browsing constantly when I tried to use it. I have video proof! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhgt8AC5qBE
 
Nik said:
Oh no, something got slow while all my cpu cores are at 100%! What the crap! How DARE my computer be slow, no matter what I throw at it!
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I'm just saying, Chrome is the only app that shows any signs of slow-down during intense CPU usage. During 100% usage I can watch 1080p .MKVs just fine, work with huge documents in Photoshop without any issues, extract archives, etc, etc. I'm just not sure what causes Chrome to completely shit itself in these conditions, because as I said, Firefox cruises along as if all cores were at 0%. I hope it gets fixed, because I actually like Chrome a lot.
 
I use both at home and at work. To many things going on to do all in one browser. Though I still prefer firefox for many things like web dev.
 
Wow lots of Chrome supporters, must be a good browser based on the responses. I have used Firefox but love chrome appears faster on my linux system.

Did not know about missing adblocking on chrome.
 
I use Chrome most of the time at home. Every once in a while I have to fire up FF because Chrome doesn't like some sites. At work I'm stuck using IE6. Makes me want to slam my head through my monitor.
 
Opera... fuck opera. I wish those whiny shits would go out of business and die.

Firefox is a ram whore, and it doesn't play HTML5 on Youtube.

I use Chrome for youtube now, firefox for everything else.
 
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