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I am heavy user of browsers and I have never noticed any difference in speed between Firefox, Chrome and for that matter IE in terms of my normal browsing. I us

by SeanDav 14y ago

I am heavy user of browsers and I have never noticed any difference in speed between Firefox, Chrome and for that matter IE in terms of my normal browsing. I usually have several browser windows open and sometimes over 100 tabs or more. Firefox wins hands down for its vastly superior tab handling and addon infrastructure. Speed, for me, just has never been an issue.

wvenable 14y ago
I'm a die-hard Firefox user; can't live without tab mix plus but Chrome is significantly faster rendering my web application than Firefox or IE. We recommend it to all our customers for that reason -- the difference is striking. Our application is not JavaScript heavy but it does contain a lot of HTML.
- Derbasti 14y ago
  I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few weeks ago. Yes, Chrome is noticeably faster for every rendering task. In particular, it's nice that single tabs don't slow down the whole browser. In the end though, both work fine and I don't mind the difference in speed too much.
  - wvenable 14y ago
    Why the switch? I don't imagine there are too many people switching from Chrome to Firefox. I simply can't live without the features I've gotten used to, but if I didn't know any better I'd probably just stick with Chrome.
    - Derbasti 14y ago
      For some reason, my main Chrome installation broke (kept resetting itself every few days). Also, I became fed up with sending all my settings, bookmarks and history to Google. So I tried Opera. It had a few quirks which ultimately threw me off too much. Hence, Firefox. It does not annoy me (much). That is all I ask from good software. Also, Firefox syncing is quite amazing. Divorcing myself from Google is still in progress though, with maps and calendar being the last holdouts.
    - Nick_C 14y ago
      I switched a few months ago and am pretty happy, once you find the right addons. The reason I switched was some niggling privacy concerns and then discovering that google-chrome won't allow Ghostery to block doubleclick. Firefox with: adblock-plus, ghostery, noscript, requestpolicy, refcontrol and cookiemonster addresses all the privacy concerns. Then: add to searchbar, customizable shortcuts, duplicate in tab context menu, firegestures, open link in ..., and sessionmanager give me pretty much the same UX as I had in google-chrome.

by SeanDav 14y ago

wvenable 14y ago

I'm a die-hard Firefox user; can't live without tab mix plus but Chrome is significantly faster rendering my web application than Firefox or IE. We recommend it to all our customers for that reason -- the difference is striking. Our application is not JavaScript heavy but it does contain a lot of HTML.

Derbasti 14y ago
I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few weeks ago. Yes, Chrome is noticeably faster for every rendering task. In particular, it's nice that single tabs don't slow down the whole browser. In the end though, both work fine and I don't mind the difference in speed too much.
- wvenable 14y ago
  Why the switch? I don't imagine there are too many people switching from Chrome to Firefox. I simply can't live without the features I've gotten used to, but if I didn't know any better I'd probably just stick with Chrome.
  - Derbasti 14y ago
    For some reason, my main Chrome installation broke (kept resetting itself every few days). Also, I became fed up with sending all my settings, bookmarks and history to Google. So I tried Opera. It had a few quirks which ultimately threw me off too much. Hence, Firefox. It does not annoy me (much). That is all I ask from good software. Also, Firefox syncing is quite amazing. Divorcing myself from Google is still in progress though, with maps and calendar being the last holdouts.
  - Nick_C 14y ago
    I switched a few months ago and am pretty happy, once you find the right addons. The reason I switched was some niggling privacy concerns and then discovering that google-chrome won't allow Ghostery to block doubleclick. Firefox with: adblock-plus, ghostery, noscript, requestpolicy, refcontrol and cookiemonster addresses all the privacy concerns. Then: add to searchbar, customizable shortcuts, duplicate in tab context menu, firegestures, open link in ..., and sessionmanager give me pretty much the same UX as I had in google-chrome.