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Chrome has recently started to be more of a burden for us. We use the Application Shortcuts on our sales teams Windows PCs, which has broken over the last coupl

Chrome has recently started to be more of a burden for us. We use the Application Shortcuts on our sales teams Windows PCs, which has broken over the last couple of updates: * Scrollbars have now changed, there are no up and down arrows. This has really confused our elder staff. * Application shortcuts have started hanging and throwing the "Jim" screen, but the same web pages work fine usually. * Java is awful to get installed and unfortunately we need that. These have made me want to try Firefox even more, and seeing Generators has made me switch to the nightly build to see what else is up and coming! Nice work Mozilla!

ahoge 13y ago
I recommend to use a site-specific browser (SSB) for internal stuff. This way you get a fixed platform which can be updated as needed. For the internet, you can continue to use an auto-updating browser. Take a look at XULRunner and the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). If you want to see CEF in action, try Brackets: http://brackets.io/ http://brackets.io/
SkyMarshal 13y ago
Fwiw I've been finding Firefox (Ubuntu 12.04 default repo version) to be more stable than Chrome when I'm abusing tabs (like 50-100 tabs open, yes I'm pathological). Under such circumstances with Chrome my computer will occasionally freeze and I have no recourse but to REISUB it. Under similar circumstances with FF, things slow down and responsiveness gets worse, but no system freezes have occured yet. There are some things I use Chrome for, like its JS profiling tools, but every time it freezes and forces a restart I go back to FF. Been staying with the latter more and more lately.
- nnethercote 13y ago
  I've heard countless times that Chrome becomes flaky once you get to about 50 or 60 tabs. In contrast, I know several Firefox users who regularly have open several hundred tabs, and one guy who sometimes exceeds a thousand. (Yes, a thousand.) (And if you're about to respond with "why would anybody need that many tabs?", please don't. It's a tired topic; just accept that there are many different and valid ways to use a web browser, and yours is just one of them.)

ahoge 13y ago

I recommend to use a site-specific browser (SSB) for internal stuff. This way you get a fixed platform which can be updated as needed. For the internet, you can continue to use an auto-updating browser. Take a look at XULRunner and the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). If you want to see CEF in action, try Brackets: http://brackets.io/ http://brackets.io/

SkyMarshal 13y ago

Fwiw I've been finding Firefox (Ubuntu 12.04 default repo version) to be more stable than Chrome when I'm abusing tabs (like 50-100 tabs open, yes I'm pathological). Under such circumstances with Chrome my computer will occasionally freeze and I have no recourse but to REISUB it. Under similar circumstances with FF, things slow down and responsiveness gets worse, but no system freezes have occured yet. There are some things I use Chrome for, like its JS profiling tools, but every time it freezes and forces a restart I go back to FF. Been staying with the latter more and more lately.

nnethercote 13y ago
I've heard countless times that Chrome becomes flaky once you get to about 50 or 60 tabs. In contrast, I know several Firefox users who regularly have open several hundred tabs, and one guy who sometimes exceeds a thousand. (Yes, a thousand.) (And if you're about to respond with "why would anybody need that many tabs?", please don't. It's a tired topic; just accept that there are many different and valid ways to use a web browser, and yours is just one of them.)