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i switched to chrome a couple of months ago and have not looked back. Firefox was starting to feel seriously bloated. Chrome starts up quickly, runs much fast
by eli_s 17y ago
i switched to chrome a couple of months ago and have not looked back.
Firefox was starting to feel seriously bloated.
Chrome starts up quickly, runs much faster than FF let alone IE.
The only reason I fire up FF is to use firebug as the web developer tools in chrome are still a bit buggy.
I'm surprised that more tech people don't use chrome.
- known 17y agodue to lack of adblock in chrome.
- andyking 17y agoI agree - I really like Chrome (and Opera, for what it's worth) and I can generally cope with the normal ads on most sane web sites these days. But some sites go over the top and a few minutes of looking at flashing, flickering, CPU-hogging dross like one British forum I regularly visit (two large Flash banners at the top of the page, one down the side and one large square Flash ad, often an auto-playing video, in the first post of each page) is enough to send me scuttling back to Firefox. If someone developed a Chromium add-on that did the same thing as Adblock, I wouldn't look back. (I normally unblock the ads on sites I use regularly and value - provided they don't abuse my eyes with videos and those flashing "YOU'VE WON A CAR!" images.)
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoI normally unblock the ads on sites I use regularly Ditto, but I had to use Vista yesterday and tried out IE8 (again) and was so suprised to find 2 popups on the dilbert website. I don't disable popup blocking for anyone. I thought IE8 had it enabled so it was a little strange ... first unwanted popups in years. Blah blah blah, ... as you were.
- ErrantX 17y agohttp://www.mychromeaddons.com/chrome-addon-adsweep-a-chrome-ad-blocker/ http://www.mychromeaddons.com/chrome-addon-adsweep-a-chrome-...
- OolonColluphid 17y agoI've been using Privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org http://www.privoxy.org) for a while - seems to do a good enough job for me (though I've noticed that transitioning from HTTP to HTTPS seems to get stuck sometimes). Plus, it means on those rare occasions when I fire up IE, I also see fewer ads.
- Keyframe 17y agoExactly the same here! Except I hate it where flash is slower in Chrome than it is in FF, but I can live with that.
- bmj 17y agoI've been making the transition myself, doing much the same thing--starting FF to use Firebug, but otherwise leaving it be. Sometimes I miss a few of the plugins, but otherwise, I appreciate the speed and smaller memory footprint.
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