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I consider the Chrome to be the best browser (I use Windows XP) since version Beta 4, when extensions support was added. I switched from Firefox, mostly because

by greyman 17y ago

I consider the Chrome to be the best browser (I use Windows XP) since version Beta 4, when extensions support was added. I switched from Firefox, mostly because it is considerably slower. As I see it, Chrome just out-innovated FF.

nuclear_eclipse 17y ago
There are still a few minor niggles I have with Chrome, mostly relating to bookmarks: - Chrome doesn't support bookmark shortcuts; I use SuperGenPass in FF as a bookmark with a shortcut of "p", so in any form, rather than needing to click the mouse, I can do Ctrl-L, p, enter - Chrome doesn't "support" unorganized and tagged bookmarks like FF3 does. I like being able to file/search bookmarks by tags, separately from a small hierarchy of most-used bookmarks on the toolbar. - Chrome doesn't support bookmark separators, which are a "nicety" for organizing bookmarks in folders on the toolbar. Something small like that really does help with visual recognition and hand-eye coordination.
- pielud 17y ago
  It does actually support this, it's just not a bookmark, it's a "search engine". For example, if I want to type "yc" in the address bar to get to news.yc: 1. right click address bar, select "edit search engines" 2. click the add button 3. give it name like "news.yc", keyword is "yc" url is http://new.ycombinator.com http://new.ycombinator.com. The "%s" in the url isn't required. When I imported my bookmarks from firefox, it did this automatically. It took me forever to figure out how to add new ones. edit: formatting
  - nuclear_eclipse 17y ago
    And then that's no longer synchronized between my various machines and browsers via Xmarks?
spicyj 17y ago
Out of curiosity, what extensions do you use that you would have missed if you had switched to Chrome before beta 4?
- greyman 17y ago
  AutoZoom - stores zoom setting for individual websites. Chrome Gestures Copy Without Formatting RSS Subscription Extension Not many, actually, but the first one was a deal breaker. Some websites just have too small a font for my eyes and having to zoom in every time I visit the website was extremely annoying. Also, if I remember correctly, the previous versions didn't support F11 fullscreen mode.
illumin8 17y ago
I completely agree. Native bookmark sync without unreliable extensions, and real ad-block support through an extension just made Chrome the best browser. Not to mention, Firefox has a nasty habit of getting slow over the months as the "Awesome bar" stores more and more cruft in SQLite databases. I heard there is a command-line way to trim/optimize the SQLite databases, but seriously, Mozilla expects me to bust out a command line to keep their browser from being slow? Not to mention the memory usage in Firefox is terrible at times.
- treyp 17y ago
  not sure what you mean by "real" ad block support. the chrome extension API isn't mature enough yet to block ads before they're downloaded. it basically just hides them afterwards. they're working on that, though, apparently.

by greyman 17y ago

nuclear_eclipse 17y ago

There are still a few minor niggles I have with Chrome, mostly relating to bookmarks: - Chrome doesn't support bookmark shortcuts; I use SuperGenPass in FF as a bookmark with a shortcut of "p", so in any form, rather than needing to click the mouse, I can do Ctrl-L, p, enter - Chrome doesn't "support" unorganized and tagged bookmarks like FF3 does. I like being able to file/search bookmarks by tags, separately from a small hierarchy of most-used bookmarks on the toolbar. - Chrome doesn't support bookmark separators, which are a "nicety" for organizing bookmarks in folders on the toolbar. Something small like that really does help with visual recognition and hand-eye coordination.

pielud 17y ago
It does actually support this, it's just not a bookmark, it's a "search engine". For example, if I want to type "yc" in the address bar to get to news.yc: 1. right click address bar, select "edit search engines" 2. click the add button 3. give it name like "news.yc", keyword is "yc" url is http://new.ycombinator.com http://new.ycombinator.com. The "%s" in the url isn't required. When I imported my bookmarks from firefox, it did this automatically. It took me forever to figure out how to add new ones. edit: formatting
- nuclear_eclipse 17y ago
  And then that's no longer synchronized between my various machines and browsers via Xmarks?

spicyj 17y ago

Out of curiosity, what extensions do you use that you would have missed if you had switched to Chrome before beta 4?

greyman 17y ago
AutoZoom - stores zoom setting for individual websites. Chrome Gestures Copy Without Formatting RSS Subscription Extension Not many, actually, but the first one was a deal breaker. Some websites just have too small a font for my eyes and having to zoom in every time I visit the website was extremely annoying. Also, if I remember correctly, the previous versions didn't support F11 fullscreen mode.

illumin8 17y ago

I completely agree. Native bookmark sync without unreliable extensions, and real ad-block support through an extension just made Chrome the best browser. Not to mention, Firefox has a nasty habit of getting slow over the months as the "Awesome bar" stores more and more cruft in SQLite databases. I heard there is a command-line way to trim/optimize the SQLite databases, but seriously, Mozilla expects me to bust out a command line to keep their browser from being slow? Not to mention the memory usage in Firefox is terrible at times.

treyp 17y ago
not sure what you mean by "real" ad block support. the chrome extension API isn't mature enough yet to block ads before they're downloaded. it basically just hides them afterwards. they're working on that, though, apparently.