Which one do you use?

Why?

Firefox, because I like my extensions and the customisability that it offers.
Chrome never really appealed to me. People always say "its faster" or whatever. But I cant tell a difference. My pages come up plenty fast for me...

Zarxrax Wrote:Firefox, because I like my extensions and the customisability that it offers.
Chrome never really appealed to me. People always say "its faster" or whatever. But I cant tell a difference. My pages come up plenty fast for me...

Same. Though I can see the difference in speed, it is not big enough for me to worry about.

Firefox.

It still has memory leak issues in Win7, but it's FF until someone comes up with something I like.

Speed in a browser? Ha. My speed is crippled by my lousy ISP. I never see a difference between Chrome and FF. Sure, if I was running Fiber-Op, I might notice it, but I just have crappy Time-Warner 7MBit.

I like the customizable drop-down search box. I customized the hell out of mine. It's full of JP resources. Switching to something else would be a pain.

I also like having a big list of bookmarks running down the side. Yeah, it's very 1998, but that's how I roll. Maybe one day I'll even organize them.

Plugins are always nice. Rikai-chan and its various mutant children are useful.

More important plugins are NoScript and AdBlockPlus. They make me feel *slightly* safer. (But I'm not fooling myself into thinking that I'm safe or anything.)

Personas... They never seem to render right, and it takes forever to find good ones. But I guess it's better than gray boxes.

Firefox. It's fast, and the plugins are great. Mostly rikaichan, of course.

Chrome is also good.

It's really crazy how bad Internet Explorer is. Trying surfing in Internet Explorer for a day after using Firefox or Chrome for a few months--it's not a pretty sight.

Chrome. Faster and looks better in my opinion.

Opera, because it has built in mail checking and IRC features and is generally smooth and fast. It's not as bulky as firefox, but not as bare bones as chrome.

Elegant, feature packed, and fast. Good for me!

Plus, gestures makes it possible for me to do one handed browsing. No typing unless I need to write something in an input box like this!

Tzadeck Wrote:It's really crazy how bad Internet Explorer is. Trying surfing in Internet Explorer for a day after using Firefox or Chrome for a few months--it's not a pretty sight.

You mean the new one also?

I use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer.
Each of them is useful for some things and useless for some other things.
Anyway, I prefer working off-line.

Internet explorer for Windows Update cos I don't have choice.

Firefox for every day surf because of good plugin choice [I advice not to setup latest version (when it's N.x -> N+1.0), version 4 for instance still needs to be debugged. Still using 3.6, more stable].

Opera, for IRC integration and because contrary to firefox, it is actually very compliant to CSS. Good-looking. Ah, and new versions are more stable than firefox ones. The minus point is as it is less used than IE or Firefox, on some sites you can have trouble to navigate.

jettyke Wrote:You mean the new one also?

Yeah, it's awful. My computer is getting a bit old, almost four years now. There's no noticeable load time on Firefox, but on IE I feel constantly annoyed--especially when initially opening up the browser.

It's far far worse on my work computers. In one of my offices I'm stuck with a old old Windows XP computer. On IE I can't even open up the BBC website without my computer completely freezing up. On Firefox I can open up the BBC, Gmail, and run Excel at the same time and I don't experience any lag.

Chrome, no contest.

Its younger than the other mainstream browsers and thanks to that it has technological lead (no memory leaks, sandboxes for plugins, multi-threading etc.), these are things that FF is only planning on getting and they are all essential to security (sandbox) and stability (multi-threading). I can't remember when was the last time Chrome hung up or became unresponsive (separate tabs with flash/pdf sometimes do but this doesn't put down the browser) and I can't remember if I ever had one day without FF hanging up on me.

Chrome also has the same extensions as FF (rikaikun & AdBlock work just fine) but on top of that its also nicely integrated with Google products/services and I happen to use a lot of them (for example Chrome shows you any messages received on gMail/gTalk tab, no matter what tab you're browsing). Another advantage is much better & streamlined UI. Chrome eliminated unnecessary clutter like application/window, menu & status bars thus giving you more space for dynamic content ie. webpage or an app rather than use 200 pixels of screen estate for things that don't do anything 98% of the time you're using your browser... This is extremely essential when using netbooks and notebooks since they have very limited resolutions and screen space is very valuable on them. FF now tries to copy that UI but again it still lacks in terms of whats under the hood.

A while ago there was also an issue with FF not having a license for a very popular x264 codec (the only browser without it) but now that Google is slowly pushing for WebM it shouldn't matter anyway.

Chrome also tries to conform to Web standards thus giving you consistent web browsing experience (run various Acids/HTML5 tests on your non-Chrome browser and there is a good chance my Android would beat that, not to mention Chrome), that makes it easier for web masters to prepare a page with your browser in mind (Chromes popularity also helps with that, compared to Opera at least).

Look how I didn't even touch on the subject of speed since as important as it was a while ago, now every other day there is a new version of Opera, FF or Chrome that beats the records or M$ is creating another of their own 'testing methodologies' that would put IE on top.

IE8 about 99% of the time. Anyone who has IE7 or earlier and says IE is bad isn't giving it a fair shake. I admit IE9 sounds like it's full of bugs, but hopefully they'll fix that.

thurd Wrote:M$ is creating another of their own 'testing methodologies' that would put IE on top.

Why did you spell MS with a dollar sign? Are you twelve years old?

JimmySeal Wrote:IE8 about 99% of the time. Anyone who has IE7 or earlier and says IE is bad isn't giving it a fair shake. I admit IE9 sounds like its full of bugs, but hopefully they'll fix that.

Yeah it is, it's horrible.

I can only go to google's pages once, and the second time it shows me to delete cookies.

And every second time after deleting them is the same.

has anyone downloaded the new firefox yet though? It basically looks exactly like chrome. and i can't figure out how to enable rikaichan... so, may as well switch to chrome i guess... :/

EDIT: found it! good!!

I use uzbl. Minimalist while still being customizable.

Chrome, for all the reasons mentioned by thurd!

Rikaichan on Firefox is still way more advanced than rikaikun, though. I'm looking at you, save function...

Does anyone know if the rikaichan press s to save a word works on the new firefox?

Think I read it didn't, but that was a while ago.

What I don't like about firefox is that it's impossible to remove that ugly-looking bookmark bar.

But the fullscreen window is better than chrome, might even consider switching.

jettyke Wrote:What I don't like about firefox is that it's impossible to remove that ugly-looking bookmark bar.

Huh? Just go into view, go to toolbars, and click on the bookmark toolbar to deselect it.

Tzadeck Wrote:

jettyke Wrote:What I don't like about firefox is that it's impossible to remove that ugly-looking bookmark bar.

Huh? Just go into view, go to toolbars, and click on the bookmark toolbar to deselect it.

In fact, you should remove _all_ the menu bars up to. Also use a window manager or get a plugin that lets you remove the window title bar. I hate when programs waste over an inch of space at the top.

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid132881

Personally I have Menu and Bookmarks bars removed, w/ a couple Stylish scripts to make the orange thingy at top left disappear.

Chrome.

- Tab management saved me a few time from website/plugin crash, only the tab went down, instead of the whole browser.
- Incognito mode is so easy, ctrl + shift + n, and then I can open 2 gmail instances. Firefox throws you out of regular browsing.
- I know some say FF4 is as fast, but I can't leave it open for longer than a day. Chrome is fine after a whole week. That and try to move tabs around in both, chrome makes it so easy.

Only thing is I wish is Chrome having as much plugin support as FF. Getting better, but for ex. rikaikun doesn't have all the features as Rikaichan.

overture2112 Wrote:

Tzadeck Wrote:

jettyke Wrote:What I don't like about firefox is that it's impossible to remove that ugly-looking bookmark bar.

Huh? Just go into view, go to toolbars, and click on the bookmark toolbar to deselect it.

In fact, you should remove _all_ the menu bars up to. Also use a window manager or get a plugin that lets you remove the window title bar. I hate when programs waste over an inch of space at the top.

Companies that think installing toolbars in your browser is a good idea need to go get (fornicated) by an ape right in the (buttocks) until they (collapse due to exhaustion).

Seriously though, it sucks.

JimmySeal Wrote:

thurd Wrote:M$ is creating another of their own 'testing methodologies' that would put IE on top.

Why did you spell MS with a dollar sign? Are you twelve years old?

Depends on who you ask I am. My sister thinks im 3, my mother treats me like I'm 12 and I would kill a lot of people to be 18 again

Also M$ is the most successful money making machine in the IT world if I can't use a dollar sign for them then I don't know what justifies it