6 ms·

I feel almost diametrically opposite :) I find the Chrome interface so simple as to be almost brain dead. Chrome's handling of tabs and sessions is much worse t

by SeanDav 16y ago

I feel almost diametrically opposite :) I find the Chrome interface so simple as to be almost brain dead. Chrome's handling of tabs and sessions is much worse than Firefox. As a power user of browsers I just feel Firefox is streets ahead of Chrome. I honestly cannot think of a single thing I prefer about Chrome. The only reasons I have it installed is just to see what the fuss is all about and as an alternative to Firefox if I have display or other problems in 1 browser.

drivebyacct2 16y ago
How is it's handling of tabs or sessions radically different? And come on, its impossible to look at Firefox 4 (or IE9 for that matter) and not know where ALL of the major design shifts came from...
greyman 16y ago
What about speed? On my machines, startup time and rendering time are both noticeably shorter in Chrome. That was my primary reason I switched.
- WalterGR 16y ago
  What about speed? I empathize. I'm a bookmark junkie, keeping 10,000+ bookmarks in my browser at a given time. Firefox just couldn't handle that (on my admittedly older computer,) taking ~30 seconds to both start up and shut down, and ~5 seconds to navigate to a new URL. I blame it largely on the switch to SQLite as backing store, but unfortunately I don't have any hard numbers.
  - xiongchiamiov 16y ago
    Have you looked into using an online bookmark system instead? Del.icio.us responds at the same rate, whether you have 10 bookmarks or 10 thousand.
fleitz 16y ago
Interesting, I'll give you sessions hands down, but tabs? I'm really interested to know what I'm missing in FF. I think FF4 may get me to switch back as there are a few extensions I miss, oh, and the in page search sucks compared to firefox. Nothing like pressing / to search, maybe I should install Vimium.
- Raphael 16y ago
  With many tabs, they shrink so small they lose the text and favicon. Eventually they stop shrinking and new tabs are not displayed, and clicking the new tab button just activates the tab under it.
  - zcid 16y ago
    Use Tree Style Tabs for a week and I guarantee you will never go back to top style tabs. I have about 40 tabs open right now and it feels completely organized (I am obsessive about minimizing clutter).
- Flenser 16y ago
  but search term highlighting is much better in chrome. When Firefox has search highlighting in the scrollbar I'll switch back.
blntechie 16y ago
+1 For me, Chrome has nothing Firefox don't have. Both have almost same set of features now . A year back, Chrome was in fact lagging in features. IMHO, the only difference i find is startup speed is better in chrome. But Firefox 4 nightly builds are rapidly catching up in that area. Load times for me are 5-10 seconds with a big Adblock list pre loading. Without Adblock list, it's a snap. Both are rapidly catching up with each others features and so I don't find reason for me to switch to Chrome. Firefox + Sync + Adblock + No Script + Awesome Bar is virtually unbeatable for me even though Chrome has equivalents.
- Volscio 16y ago
  I can't live without Tab Mix Plus in Firefox. I want anything I click on to open in a new tab. Chrome hasn't been able to provide that to me yet although I guess I could just try to learn middle click or whatever.
  - chadgeidel 16y ago
    Even worse, I would prefer my searches (and new address bar entries) go in a separate tab. I just don't understand why this feature (especially "open search results in a new tab") can't be an option in the default software. Sure, it doesn't take long to Ctrl+T, but I've become accustomed to TMP behavior in FF. (edit: and option -> an option)
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
SeanDav 16y ago
I see someone doesn't like pro Firefox comments and came and downvoted all pro Firefox entries....
kellishaver 16y ago
The main thing that turns me off of Chrome is that there is no way to zoom text only. If I want to zoom in, I have to resize the entire layout. That means that column of text I wanted to read that fit nicely in the browser window, but was simply too small, now requires a lot of horizontal scrolling to read. Sure, sometimes text-only zoom breaks the layout, but usually only if you zoom in a very large amount, and often times, it is still preferable and easier to work with. I surf the web with my text zoomed in 4-6x.
- xiongchiamiov 16y ago
  If you're using Firefox, you might find NoSquint[0] useful. It allows you to customize per-site settings for font sizes and colors (as well as more precise global defaults than Firefox does naturally). [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592/
  - kellishaver 16y ago
    Thanks! That's quite handy.

by SeanDav 16y ago

drivebyacct2 16y ago

How is it's handling of tabs or sessions radically different? And come on, its impossible to look at Firefox 4 (or IE9 for that matter) and not know where ALL of the major design shifts came from...

greyman 16y ago

What about speed? On my machines, startup time and rendering time are both noticeably shorter in Chrome. That was my primary reason I switched.

WalterGR 16y ago
What about speed? I empathize. I'm a bookmark junkie, keeping 10,000+ bookmarks in my browser at a given time. Firefox just couldn't handle that (on my admittedly older computer,) taking ~30 seconds to both start up and shut down, and ~5 seconds to navigate to a new URL. I blame it largely on the switch to SQLite as backing store, but unfortunately I don't have any hard numbers.
- xiongchiamiov 16y ago
  Have you looked into using an online bookmark system instead? Del.icio.us responds at the same rate, whether you have 10 bookmarks or 10 thousand.

fleitz 16y ago

Interesting, I'll give you sessions hands down, but tabs? I'm really interested to know what I'm missing in FF. I think FF4 may get me to switch back as there are a few extensions I miss, oh, and the in page search sucks compared to firefox. Nothing like pressing / to search, maybe I should install Vimium.

Raphael 16y ago
With many tabs, they shrink so small they lose the text and favicon. Eventually they stop shrinking and new tabs are not displayed, and clicking the new tab button just activates the tab under it.
- zcid 16y ago
  Use Tree Style Tabs for a week and I guarantee you will never go back to top style tabs. I have about 40 tabs open right now and it feels completely organized (I am obsessive about minimizing clutter).
Flenser 16y ago
but search term highlighting is much better in chrome. When Firefox has search highlighting in the scrollbar I'll switch back.

blntechie 16y ago

+1 For me, Chrome has nothing Firefox don't have. Both have almost same set of features now . A year back, Chrome was in fact lagging in features. IMHO, the only difference i find is startup speed is better in chrome. But Firefox 4 nightly builds are rapidly catching up in that area. Load times for me are 5-10 seconds with a big Adblock list pre loading. Without Adblock list, it's a snap. Both are rapidly catching up with each others features and so I don't find reason for me to switch to Chrome. Firefox + Sync + Adblock + No Script + Awesome Bar is virtually unbeatable for me even though Chrome has equivalents.

Volscio 16y ago
I can't live without Tab Mix Plus in Firefox. I want anything I click on to open in a new tab. Chrome hasn't been able to provide that to me yet although I guess I could just try to learn middle click or whatever.
- chadgeidel 16y ago
  Even worse, I would prefer my searches (and new address bar entries) go in a separate tab. I just don't understand why this feature (especially "open search results in a new tab") can't be an option in the default software. Sure, it doesn't take long to Ctrl+T, but I've become accustomed to TMP behavior in FF. (edit: and option -> an option)

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

SeanDav 16y ago

I see someone doesn't like pro Firefox comments and came and downvoted all pro Firefox entries....

kellishaver 16y ago

The main thing that turns me off of Chrome is that there is no way to zoom text only. If I want to zoom in, I have to resize the entire layout. That means that column of text I wanted to read that fit nicely in the browser window, but was simply too small, now requires a lot of horizontal scrolling to read. Sure, sometimes text-only zoom breaks the layout, but usually only if you zoom in a very large amount, and often times, it is still preferable and easier to work with. I surf the web with my text zoomed in 4-6x.

xiongchiamiov 16y ago
If you're using Firefox, you might find NoSquint[0] useful. It allows you to customize per-site settings for font sizes and colors (as well as more precise global defaults than Firefox does naturally). [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592/
- kellishaver 16y ago
  Thanks! That's quite handy.