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I see tons of ads for IE. Never for FF. Microsoft's marketing is working. FF is slower than Chrome (at least the desktop versions). FF still doesn't have sepa

• ladzoppelin 14y ago
  I find Aurora faster then Chrome and it displays fonts/pages better. I also think the memory use is much better then Chrome. Maybe its the Nvidia acceleration?
  • rorrr 14y ago
    Aurora is what, a pre-beta release? And you're comparing it to the production Chrome? And who cares about memory use on the desktop? I got 8GB, and my browser never even gets close to maxing that out. 16GB can be bought for around $45.
    • mitchty 14y ago
      I care about memory use, i've been able to get Chrome up to >8g of memory used with no problems. Firefox rarely gets over 2g with similar use.
      • rorrr 14y ago
        You're saying Chrome uses 4 times more memory than FF. I call bullshit.
        • mitchty 14y ago
          When the top 5 processes on my system are chrome, and all over 1.5gigs in size call bullshit all you want. But when I close chrome and 8 gigs of memory is freed, I call that bullshit.
• bcoates 14y ago
  I very rarely experience chrome crashes, but when it happens, it's always the entire browser. I'd be a lot more worried that crashes almost certainly imply security holes than how much it interrupts my browsing session.
  • rorrr 14y ago
    I get tab crashes, they look like this: http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Chrome-tab-crash.png http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Chrome-tab-cr... I don't remember the last time the whole browser crashed, and I do web development.
• Mythbusters 14y ago
  It was chrome's marketing earlier now it's Microsoft's. I think they are both great browsers on their own. I find IE10 to be even better and so much faster though.
• w1ntermute 14y ago
  > FF is slower than Chrome (at least the desktop versions). This is a misconception held by people that haven't used Firefox as of late. I actually frequently encounter crashes in Chrome, whereas I do not with Firefox.
  • jimwalsh 14y ago
    Not it's actually still very slow. Theres a JS demo ever 3 days on HN that runs terribly in FF. Plenty of other 'pushing the envelope' demos do the same thing to FF. To their credit the FF team is usually here, or finds them, and bugs are quickly reported.
    • w1ntermute 14y ago
      The funny thing is, most users don't care about how their browser performs in "'pushing the envelope' demos" - they care about how it performs when they're browsing the web.
  • rorrr 14y ago
    It's not a misconception. Here's a website owned by Mozilla, and even they admit it: http://arewefastyet.com/ http://arewefastyet.com/
    • shardling 14y ago
      No, that shows javscript benchmarks, not the more ambiguous notion of "browser speed". Anyway, Chrome and Firefox are tied in Kraken, which is the benchmark Mozilla created to simulate real world loads. (And thus, presumably, the benchmark they care most about when optimizing.)
• eli 14y ago
  > I see tons of ads for IE. Never for FF. Microsoft's marketing is working. Are you using FF while browsing? Because I'm pretty sure those MS ads are using User Agent targeting. I would not expect you see any IE ads while already using IE.
• subsection1h 14y ago
  FF is slower than Chrome This isn't the case for me when I have a couple of hundred tabs open, which I usually do.