I use FF at home, chrome on the netbook, and opera on the android phone. =)

I only use chrome on the netbook for the extra viewable area, but otherwise to me they're the same.

In Firefox I have the Navigation and Bookmark bars showing. The bookmark bar is just faster for accessing things I like to get to regularly then going through the drop down on the bookmarks icon.

In my experience with chrome it does not work as well as firefox come extension wise. Rikaikun was not as effective as rikaichan, because I couldn't get it to hover over text I typed in only text already on the page. And that's my main use for rikaichan. I do that a lot while playing games, because it's not to uncommon for me to be able to get the kanji onto the screen somehow for a jukugo, but not know the actual reading for it.

i.e. I see 最高 and and type in 最近 and 高い remove all the extraneous bits and get the word I'm looking for, then I highlight it with rikaichan to see the correct reading. Not being able to do this in chrome was pretty much an instant deal breaker for me.

Also with chromes adblock plus I still had to watch video adds on any site but youtube, but I see zero video adds in firefox. The only thing I really liked about chrome was that it synced with your google account. Now I have to get an addon for syncing bookmarks, but that's okay.

Also I haven't seen firefox hang in quite some time. It used to a lot back in the day, but now not so much. Firefoxs UI is a lot more customizable to, which I appreciate.

thurd Wrote:Also M$ is the most successful money making machine in the IT world

was... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/techno...apple.html

and it's not like google doesn't make any money..!

kainzero Wrote:I only use chrome on the netbook for the extra viewable area, but otherwise to me they're the same.

Say what?




(Zoho Sheets on Firefox)

With bookmark tagging and smart keywords you don't need the bookmark bar or the search bar.

Also, if I'm going to use a different computer, I can use a copy of Portable Firefox with a bookmark syncing addon + Rikaichan + Kitsune (an addon that adds a Japanese IME to Firefox itself) and make use of my bookmarks, smart keywords, Japanese dictionary and Japanese IME everywhere.

I'm using Firefox 3.16, since IMHO FF4 doesn't add much more than aesthetic chromefication and isn't yet compatible with some important addons I use, though I really liked Panorama (tab groups).

I also use Chrome sometimes when I want to check different email accounts and things like that at the same time or as a casual secondary browser. I also have Opera, but haven't found much reason to actually use it. Internet Explorer is using space in my hard disk only to remind me how things were before Firefox.

I use FF4 and chrome.

Chrome is my favourite for normal browsing, particularly because you can set it to preload urls as you type, which means most commonly accessed sites can be got at within two keyboard presses - IMO preferable to using the mouse.

Incognito browsing management is better in chrome too.

FF4 has one major advantage - full integration of Zotero reference manager plugin. Until Zotero standalone is perfected, FF is the tool of choice for research.

jubei Wrote:- Incognito mode is so easy, ctrl + shift + n, and then I can open 2 gmail instances. Firefox throws you out of regular browsing.

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I found out a while ago that in gmail you can log in once and manage multiple accounts. For example, log into one@gmail.com and also send receive emails from two@gmail.com. You can also do this for other domains if they allow a certain protocol, which is really nice for those annoying things that force you to have a specific domain to register (do you yahoo!?). I did it with hotmail for a while (not sure if they currently support this ability still though).
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Blahah Wrote:FF4 has one major advantage - full integration of Zotero reference manager plugin. Until Zotero standalone is perfected, FF is the tool of choice for research.

Blahah, you are my new forum hero. Thank you for this tip! It might just change my life. (You don't happen to know anything for stacks of boxes of files do you?) ;p

If you're interested in good ways to use Zotero: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid135127

Technically speaking, neither browser, as of today, it's a lot better than any other, that's not to say there isn't one better at one thing or two. Ultimately it comes down to habits and looks (branding). There will be of course a few users that need one or another for that specific feature they claim can't live without, but unless you are using some obscure web browser you'd be fine with any one that catches your eye from the big 5 (IE, FF, Chrome, Safari or Opera).

Chrome for your average browsing, because it's a better browsing experience (it never crashes, and I love the layout), and Firefox when coding or otherwise in need of some handy extension.

emacs anyone?

mentat_kgs Wrote:emacs anyone?

Only for the geekiness. A text-based browser doesn't seem so useful nowadays, but I am probably wrong and somehow, somewhere, someone is actually twice as productive as me with it.

Are Internet Explorer users dumb?

Well, until recently, Lynx, but now I'm using Mosaic and I'll never look back. Did you know that with Mosaic you get links AND pictures!?! That's crazy man. And unlike Hypercard, you don't need to use a mac.