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I've been a big firefox fan since phoenix, but already moved to chrome for only one reason: Fastest...browser...evar

sketerpot 17y ago
Likewise, on both points. It hasn't got the polish of Firefox, and the extension ecosystem is a little rough, and I miss the intelligent URL completion from the Awesomebar, but Chrome wins in speed and stability, and those were enough to move me away from Firefox for all but a few sites. Speed is important.
- reedlaw 17y ago
  Hasn't got what polish of Firefox? Firefox is buggy and has a kludgy UI. Chrome is way more polished.
  - sid0 17y ago
    Selecting multiple blocks of text. Scrolling with the mouse wheel. / for quick find (and ' for links). edit: I wonder if this is similar to the difference between Windows and Mac. Windows might be inconsistent in the small things (e.g. button padding), but it gets the large things right. Mac gets the small things right but the large things horribly, horribly wrong. Chrome seems to get the small things right too (e.g. tab animations), but overall Firefox does much better.
    - Estragon 17y ago
      Thanks, I didn't know about ' for links.
MikeCapone 17y ago
Chrome is the first browser that got me excited since I switched from IE to Firefox back in the day (or rather, phoenix and then Firebird...). Back in my Slackware days, I loved the rendering of Konqueror/KHTML, so when I got a Mac I started using Safari. I was good, but didn't really excite me. Just competent stuff.. But Chrome. Now that's pushing things forward! Firefox is so slow and bloated on the Mac, I only use it for Stumbleupon.
greyman 17y ago
I also switched since version 4 beta, which I already considered to be better than firefox. Apart from the browser speed itself, what I also like is the innovation speed. Simple, Google is an expert in creating "internet software", and Mozilla is just not able to compete with them.
guelo 17y ago
I don't get what it is that people are talking about wrt speed. I've done side by side visual tests loading JS heavy sites like gmail and google docs and I can barely tell the difference, sometimes firefox wins sometimes chrome, the main thing I'll notice is that the initial page layout flow are different, but they're basically both fast. The network is going to make the biggest impact on your browsing speed, not the browser. The only thing chrome buys me is having to learn some weird-to-me UI, and adding one more thing that I have to rely on Google for, no thanks.

Likewise, on both points. It hasn't got the polish of Firefox, and the extension ecosystem is a little rough, and I miss the intelligent URL completion from the Awesomebar, but Chrome wins in speed and stability, and those were enough to move me away from Firefox for all but a few sites. Speed is important.

reedlaw 17y ago
Hasn't got what polish of Firefox? Firefox is buggy and has a kludgy UI. Chrome is way more polished.
- sid0 17y ago
  Selecting multiple blocks of text. Scrolling with the mouse wheel. / for quick find (and ' for links). edit: I wonder if this is similar to the difference between Windows and Mac. Windows might be inconsistent in the small things (e.g. button padding), but it gets the large things right. Mac gets the small things right but the large things horribly, horribly wrong. Chrome seems to get the small things right too (e.g. tab animations), but overall Firefox does much better.
  - Estragon 17y ago
    Thanks, I didn't know about ' for links.

MikeCapone 17y ago

Chrome is the first browser that got me excited since I switched from IE to Firefox back in the day (or rather, phoenix and then Firebird...). Back in my Slackware days, I loved the rendering of Konqueror/KHTML, so when I got a Mac I started using Safari. I was good, but didn't really excite me. Just competent stuff.. But Chrome. Now that's pushing things forward! Firefox is so slow and bloated on the Mac, I only use it for Stumbleupon.

greyman 17y ago

I also switched since version 4 beta, which I already considered to be better than firefox. Apart from the browser speed itself, what I also like is the innovation speed. Simple, Google is an expert in creating "internet software", and Mozilla is just not able to compete with them.

guelo 17y ago

I don't get what it is that people are talking about wrt speed. I've done side by side visual tests loading JS heavy sites like gmail and google docs and I can barely tell the difference, sometimes firefox wins sometimes chrome, the main thing I'll notice is that the initial page layout flow are different, but they're basically both fast. The network is going to make the biggest impact on your browsing speed, not the browser. The only thing chrome buys me is having to learn some weird-to-me UI, and adding one more thing that I have to rely on Google for, no thanks.