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Chrome > Firefox? yes wai.

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 at 8:45 am

After using Firefox for 4+ years, I’ve finally decided after a month that Google Chrome is indeed better. By better, what do I mean?

  1. It’s faster. Quite obvious, FireFox can be REALLY SLOW.
  2. Occasionally FireFox decides to take 50% of your CPU resources for no reason. Maybe that’s just me but it happens at home and at work so I determine through flawless logic that it happens to all of you.
  3. FireFox, once I’ve begun to notice, crashes frequently. Chrome has yet to crash on me during its use.

FireFox > Chrome for 3 reasons:

  1. FireFox Web Developer addons are awesome. Does Chrome has equivalents? I don’t know but should probably find out.
  2. Chrome doesn’t seem to refresh files upon “SHIFT REFRESH”. Not a big deal unless you frequently web design and develop. o wait.
    Edit: It’s CTRL-F5
  3. Chrome has no good FTP extension. My FireFox remains open all the time solely for that.

All 3 reasons are probably/possibly specific only to me.

I’ve tried the FireFox 4 beta. Same stuff. Chrome > FireFox4

I plead with you: Give Chrome a try. Use it for a month. You’ll love it.

If you remain stubborn in your ways, resistant to change, fail to evolve, you’ll fall behind in technology. Next thing you know, you’ll be like your parents.
“I don’t know how to use Windows”
“You can touch a screen now?”
“I just heard of this website, YouTube. You can watch stuff on it.”
And then you go -_-;
Except it’ll be your kids doing -_-; to you! How embarrassing. UNLESS YOU DOWNLOAD, INSTALL, AND USE CHROME!

/best. sales. pitch. evah.

3 Responses to “Chrome > Firefox? yes wai.”

  1. G says:

    The built-in “Web Inspector” in both Chrome and Safari are pretty nice tools. No extension required.

  2. Zena says:

    i told you to use chrome!

  3. Anthony says:

    I think the biggest reason everyone should still use Firefox is the lack of a NoScript equivalent extension in other browsers. Adblock is very nice too :) Both extensions can lead to faster load times (less image ads, less JS downloading).

    I just recently found out after running Spybot (for adware) and Microsoft Security Essentials (for AV) that, after 1 year of having a totally unsecured computer, I have zero threats or warnings! I browse somewhat questionable sites all the time, and I attribute this solely to NoScript saving me from hostile scripts loading. This doesn’t mean I’m absolutely clean, as I’m fairly sure it’s possible I have some malware that is undetectable at the present moment by existing software (let alone the fact that I only ran 2 anti-malware programs). However, this is enough to satisfy me.

    I’m not too sure what % of malware comes from JS, but I’d guess it’s a fairly big amount, especially for those who use IE. Some anecdotal evidence: My friend’s gf disabled his NoScript because she doesn’t know how to use it, and within a week he had many instances of malware on a previously clean computer.

    My main gripe with Firefox is that each “tab” should run as its own process s.t. you can kill one of them without killing the entire browser. AFAIK, Chrome does this, and I love that about it.

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