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Firefox or Chrome?
- Thread starter KezraPlanes
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I've been a Firefox fan for awhile now, and did not really see the benefits of chrome, when I used it. Speed-wise, they're pretty equal, Chrome's got V8, and now Firefox has Tracemonkey. I'll be sticking with Firefox for now, considering it's more mature, especially in the add-ons department. I'd give Chrome a spin, but I predominately use OS X, and Chrome on that platform appears to be low priority for now.
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I use both regularly however in both very different ways.
For my netbook I use Chrome since rendering space is a premium and Chrome provides the largest view of a website out of IE, FF and Chrome. Also since it's really fast, it runs perfectly fine on my netbook.
For my desktop though, I use Firefox. Reason being that screensize and computer speed isn't an issue on my desktop, I have Firefox setup just the way I like it with themes, extensions, bookmarks and saved usernames and that I prefer having the close tab button below the address bar. Having the tab's IN the title bar doesn't appeal to me at all.
Yes, I know that Chrome would be faster, that it has themes, that I could just transfer my bookmarks, that it now has extensions but the tabs thing is what kills it for me. That and the fact I've been using it since 2005.
For my netbook I use Chrome since rendering space is a premium and Chrome provides the largest view of a website out of IE, FF and Chrome. Also since it's really fast, it runs perfectly fine on my netbook.
For my desktop though, I use Firefox. Reason being that screensize and computer speed isn't an issue on my desktop, I have Firefox setup just the way I like it with themes, extensions, bookmarks and saved usernames and that I prefer having the close tab button below the address bar. Having the tab's IN the title bar doesn't appeal to me at all.
Yes, I know that Chrome would be faster, that it has themes, that I could just transfer my bookmarks, that it now has extensions but the tabs thing is what kills it for me. That and the fact I've been using it since 2005.
This is mainly why i use chrome, i only have notebooks around, old ones at that, and resources get low, and chrome kinda simplified that. I mean, i dont use the internet like most everyone. SO Chrome is straight for me, but i have FF, IE, Opera, and Chrome installed. Just in case at any point chrome wants to bug out on me, ill go to another browser.
I prefer it because it is a more efficient use of screen real estate. actually, if I could, i'd even shrink the UI more(decrease the font size on address bar,and remove the padding above and below it, and remove the extra space above and below tab text... could cut screen real estate by almost half)
