Firefox or Chrome?

[Forstride]

I use Firefox, but I do like Chrome as well (It runs a bit smoother than FF in my opinon). I don't like the interface for Chrome however (The layout of things is just weird to me).

 

[ViviOrnitier]

Firefox is beast.

 

[Matthew]

Wow very informative tread, I didn't know that Chrome was getting so popular.
I just tried it a couple of weeks ago and I like it, but it seems to lack a lot of customization and control over the performance compared to FF.
Maybe that's the point, making it easier and simple, but I'd rather have full control over my application than having a simplified experience, after all I stick with windows 7 and I never thought of switching to a Mac OS........
I might use Chrome once they develop an effective adblock plugin, I just hate some advertising and I'd like to be able to block anything I don't like to see.
There are also several others pluging that I use in FF and I'm not too sure they have their equivalent in Chrome, but yeah I recognize there is a good potential in there...........

The beta release allows extensions such as an addblocker and you can get themes.

Anyway, chrome rules.

 

[rockstar99]

I prefer chrome because I dont use half of the fancy firefox features and chrome's simplicity catches my eye

 

[Sephi]

I use firefox and chromium at the same time, I like firefox for the side bar extension, downthemall, proper ad block and greasemonkey, chromium is used on my netbook (which I'm on right now) because firefox doesn't run as smoothly as I'd like.

opera beta is pretty nice, glass theme is pretty, but I can't get used to the different hotkeys and the way it renders certain things gets annoying.

I recommend FireFox.

I used to use it, but I had to switch to Chrome because it keeps freezing for some reason on this laptop. Chromes doesn't freeze, but every once in a while fonts are messed up (especially my webs.com site

), my Blackboard classes don't like it ("browser not supported"), and I keep getting security errors from Flash, which shows they haven't been working on Flash compatibility as much as they should be.

Chrome FTL. FireFox FTW. ...except on this laptop

firefox is probably freezing due to your profile getting all unclean, try making a new one by running "firefox.exe -ProfileManager"

 

[The Catboy]

I use Chrome more often now ^-^

 

[BlackDave]

WHO VOTED IE?

I choose Firefox. Chrome is just messed up on my computer, it's not fast at all and most websites screw up on it.

 

[jalaneme]

Firefox and opera, i find that opera is faster than firefox, and firefox takes much more ram than opera does, however firefox has the add ons that opera does not so i just use both of them.

 

[Shinryuji]

I personally don't like Chrome. I used it for a bit, but FF works so much better with a mac, plus, when you open up a new tab on FF, you don't get all your most visited sites pop up. Which can be really awkward when they are porn sites. In college. In front of a teacher. Who knows that they are porn sites.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

I personally don't like Chrome. I used it for a bit, but FF works so much better with a mac, plus, when you open up a new tab on FF, you don't get all your most visited sites pop up. Which can be really awkward when they are porn sites. In college. In front of a teacher. Who knows that they are porn sites.

You can edit the most visited sites, you know. Also, there's a porn button for a reason.

 

[Man18]

Firefox and opera, i find that opera is faster than firefox, and firefox takes much more ram than opera does, however firefox has the add ons that opera does not so i just use both of them.

Ooooo jalaneme

I use firefox, have for quite some time, use to use Opera a while back switched over to firefox a few years ago and have been happy with it since.

 

[Hachibei]

You can edit the most visited sites, you know. Also, there's a porn button for a reason.

Incognito mode FTMFW.

Also, I like how in Chrome, if one process is unresponsive, you can just terminate that process and have everything else run just fine. Don't think you can do that in FF or IE.

 

[RupeeClock]

Firefox.

I've been using the same set of extensions for years now, I'm well adjusted.

I wouldn't dream of using Chrome, I make good use of all these addons.

Edit: Firefox does have a private browsing mode, Ctrl+Shift+P.

 

[Hakoda]

Chrome if you want speed.

Firefox if you want customization.

 

[Seven]

Jumped on the Chrome Beta updated and haven't turned back. Hasn't crashed more than Firefox in the whole year I used it.

 

[mkoo]

I use firefox and chromium at the same time, I like firefox for the side bar extension, downthemall, proper ad block and greasemonkey, chromium is used on my netbook (which I'm on right now) because firefox doesn't run as smoothly as I'd like.

opera beta is pretty nice, glass theme is pretty, but I can't get used to the different hotkeys and the way it renders certain things gets annoying.

I recommend FireFox.

I used to use it, but I had to switch to Chrome because it keeps freezing for some reason on this laptop. Chromes doesn't freeze, but every once in a while fonts are messed up (especially my webs.com site

), my Blackboard classes don't like it ("browser not supported"), and I keep getting security errors from Flash, which shows they haven't been working on Flash compatibility as much as they should be.

Chrome FTL. FireFox FTW. ...except on this laptop

firefox is probably freezing due to your profile getting all unclean, try making a new one by running "firefox.exe -ProfileManager"

You can remap shortcuts in Opera

 

[user0002]

My first preference is Opera. Then Chrome. That's all I need. No Firefox, no IE (except for when I need to check out how my web page developments appear in different browsers, but that's all what I need Firefox or IE for).

 

[Demonbart]

Firefox, I'm addicted to add-ons.

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

If it weren't for the fact that there's no video downloader/mass downloader like DownThemAll on Chrome, I'd be using it. But, since Firefox has one, I use that. Chrome is better, though.

 

[Rydian]

firefox is probably freezing due to your profile getting all unclean, try making a new one by running "firefox.exe -ProfileManager"

I agree, most firefox problems are due to a corrupt profile, or an addon/extension that's not playing nicely. If firefox plays fine in a new profile, then it's something in your old one that's fucked up.

The stable/official versions of chrome have had extensions for a while now, no need to use a beta...

IE8 separates it's tabs into different processes. No, it doesn't have a built-in task manager, because you just use the windows task manager.

IE7/8 on Vista/7 (if you have UAC enabled) has more security features than firefox.
It uses ASLR and Protected Mode to stop exploits. This article shows exploit types that break firefox's security. Yes, that article is old (from firefox 2's time), but it's main focus is the lack of Protected Mode, and Firefox still does not have protected mode or ASLR. Firefox 4 should bring full support (Official source).

This isn't the age of IE6, people.