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Everyone's mentioning this separate process business and subtle engine differences web developers compensate for and I never experience. However,I really don't

Everyone's mentioning this separate process business and subtle engine differences web developers compensate for and I never experience. However,I really don't care about all that. Chrome is just nicer to use: one search/url bar, few buttons but all purposeful, can drag and split windows easily. Best browser. Only recently annoying thing is it asking me to sign up for some sort of sync constantly. I have no idea why I'd ever want to do that. When I load up Firefox I'm just overwhelmed by how much stuff there is. If someone made a chrome-like Firefox I'd use it no problem.

findjashua 12y ago
Firefox separates the search and url bars in the interest of the user's privacy - your search query is sent to Google only when you explicitly intend to do so. Also, if you try the 'tree style tab' extension for firefox, it'd be very hard to go back to chrome ;)
Silhouette 12y ago
Chrome is just nicer to use: one search/url bar, few buttons but all purposeful, can drag and split windows easily. This is why the browser market is challenging: to me, all three of the things you mentioned are negatives. I don't want a single URL and search bar that sends every character I type to the mothership. I value my privacy and am particularly aggressive at defending it on the Web. I don't want a slimmed down UI where everything is hidden away. I have nice, big screens in front of me, and I want features I use all the time available with as little effort as possible. Almost every change Firefox has made in its UI recently has been a step backwards for me. I don't want splitting and dragging windows to be too easy. I have desktop management software to lay things out properly, and those big screens. The last thing I need is an accidental drag when I pushed the mouse button a moment too soon and picked up a tab splitting everything up so I have to spend the next half-minute fiddling around to put it back again. YMMV, and the next guy's mileage may vary from both of ours. Pleasing a large market is difficult. But I can't help thinking that Mozilla's current strategy, which seems to be the bastard child of Microsoft (make it the same on all platforms) and Google (hide almost everything in the UI by default), is doomed to failure if only because they probably can't beat either Microsoft or Google at their own games and they'll alienate the people who liked Firefox because it wasn't those things as long as they try.

findjashua 12y ago

Firefox separates the search and url bars in the interest of the user's privacy - your search query is sent to Google only when you explicitly intend to do so. Also, if you try the 'tree style tab' extension for firefox, it'd be very hard to go back to chrome ;)

Silhouette 12y ago

Chrome is just nicer to use: one search/url bar, few buttons but all purposeful, can drag and split windows easily. This is why the browser market is challenging: to me, all three of the things you mentioned are negatives. I don't want a single URL and search bar that sends every character I type to the mothership. I value my privacy and am particularly aggressive at defending it on the Web. I don't want a slimmed down UI where everything is hidden away. I have nice, big screens in front of me, and I want features I use all the time available with as little effort as possible. Almost every change Firefox has made in its UI recently has been a step backwards for me. I don't want splitting and dragging windows to be too easy. I have desktop management software to lay things out properly, and those big screens. The last thing I need is an accidental drag when I pushed the mouse button a moment too soon and picked up a tab splitting everything up so I have to spend the next half-minute fiddling around to put it back again. YMMV, and the next guy's mileage may vary from both of ours. Pleasing a large market is difficult. But I can't help thinking that Mozilla's current strategy, which seems to be the bastard child of Microsoft (make it the same on all platforms) and Google (hide almost everything in the UI by default), is doomed to failure if only because they probably can't beat either Microsoft or Google at their own games and they'll alienate the people who liked Firefox because it wasn't those things as long as they try.