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Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 29 2010 : 2:30AM
From Tom's Guide.com:
20 Chrome Extensions and Tips: Built-In Goodies

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RandomPrecision
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Enjoy!
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Posted - Apr 29 2010 : 4:28AM
I guess the main question is why is this better than Firefox? I get that it's fast. Browsing is fast enough for me on just about any browser that isn't hung. IMO, it doesn't get much better than Firefox already is. What are they trying to accomplish?
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Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - May 2 2010 : 12:28PM
Speed is a benefit. The faster and more responsive my computer is, the better I like it. Why not?
Of course, there are other considerations -- such as the visual appeal of pages as rendered by a particular browser, it's configurability and ease of use, the available add-ons, its "bugginess", and its ability to download. Firefox is a slower browser than Google or Opera and, in my experience, a poorer downloader; I also find the newer iterations quite buggy. On the other hand, it scores higher in the other categories for me.
The nice thing is that you can use more than one browswer and employ each of them in a task-specific fashion. Firefox remains my default browser, but Opera and Chrome are useful for me. I don't use Internet Explorer at all.
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RandomPrecision
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Enjoy!
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Posted - May 3 2010 : 11:25AM
Basic Firefox doesn't seem buggy at all to me. Sometimes some of the add ons are shit though. Though I guess the ability for it to save sessions no matter what has pretty much kept me from noticing when or how often it crashes. As long as I don't lose anything from a crash, I usually just dust myself off and keep going without even bothering to make a note of when it happened.
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ninja1
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Posted - May 3 2010 : 12:44PM
I've seen this a lot, re: the speed advantage of Chrome.
But if your computer hardware or ISP speed is mediocre/average, don't those things determine your internet responsiveness, rather than any browser-related speed differences?
Edited by - ninja1 on 5/3/2010 1:46:04 PM
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Dave_K99
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Posted - May 3 2010 : 6:43PM
Firefox's stability definitely seems to vary depending on the version and extensions used with it. I know some people don't have an issue, but I found its stability pretty shocking the last time I used it, with 2 or 3 crashes in a few hours of reasonably heavy use. It can get pretty slow and unresponsive too, especially on an older PC with a large number of tabs open. Although there are some tab/session management extensions to help with that.
Chrome just feels slicker and smoother than Firefox to me. It's my browser of choice for YouTube and other flash/video heavy sites.
For everything else I use Opera 10.10 with plugins turned off; that's the most stable and efficient option I've found for heavy browsing. Some of Opera's features like its links and windows panels, or being able to tile tabs side by side within one window, are great when dealing with a lot of open tabs, especially as I'm not a naturally organised person. Shame the latest Opera version (10.5) is still annoyingly bug ridden.
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Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - May 3 2010 : 7:57PM
My hardware is well above average (Windows Vista experience score of 5.9 and Windows 7 experience score of 7.2) and my ISP is above-average. So browser speed makes enough of a difference to matter to me.
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