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RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - MyDigitalpoint - 10-19-2011 (10-04-2011, 06:38 AM)Arthur Wrote: OPERA! I second this comment, Opera is probably the faster web browser nowadays, but I have found it still has a few cross-browser compliance issues, but I love the way the browser ignores flash, wish is truly annoying and slows down your surfing time. I mean, when you use Opera, flash movies are displayed with a "play" buttons instead of reproduced automatically; this save from noisy, irrelevant flash advertising bothering around tons of web pages. And of course, Chrome is faster than Firefox, and SRWare Iron slightly faster than Chrome because it doesn't report your activities to Google, as Chrome does. RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - Zach - 10-19-2011 So I'm running Firefox 7 on Fedora 15 right now, and oh my God, it's so damn fast. Much faster than Chrome on Windows, I can tell you that. This is on the same machine that freezes when it's running Firefox in Windows. I guess the operating system makes a big difference. I haven't had Firefox lag once since I installed it. RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - RichardGv - 10-19-2011 Still being a loyal Firefox user... Read my signature. :D Still because its tons of extensions... Don't wish to repeat all the things again... Well, just a few comments about the new Firefox 7: I was experiencing serious memory leaks beforehand. After I read a page with many images (like The Big Picture of Boston.com) the memory usage of Firefox would climb to 800MB, and even worse, it never drops. After I upgraded to Firefox 7 and disabled a few extensions, the problem disappeared. I guess it was disabling extensions that helped, but Firefox 7 indeed uses less memory. Now the average memory usage is 280MB, the peak usage is 400MB, and I almost never run out of physical memory (933MB) anymore. Well, beware that I have 14 enabled extensions, and 13 disabled ones. As for Chromium, it's probably good but it seems to use an awful lot of memory. Hmm, at least on Gentoo it seems so, maybe because of the massive amount of bundled libraries Chromium comes with. Chromium seems to include forked versions of WebKit, expat, ffmpeg, hunspell, libjingle, libvpx, mesa, npapi, protobuf, skia, sqlite, yasm, and speex... And, I could not stop cursing Chromium for upgrading every 3 days and taking 2 hours to compile every time on my computer. :D By the way, as a user who never met a frozen Firefox (and a user who almost never use Windows...), well... RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - Zach - 10-19-2011 13 extensions? I only have like two enabled. Three, tops. What extensions do you use? RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - RichardGv - 10-20-2011 (10-19-2011, 11:41 PM)Zack Wrote: 13 extensions? I only have like two enabled. Three, tops. What extensions do you use? Gee, MR Tech Toolkit no longer works for Firefox 4+... I enabled a few more addons. Code: Application: Firefox 7.0.1 (20111004131335) RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - Zach - 10-20-2011 Very secure. You seem to have a lot of ad blocking extensions. Do you block ads here? RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - MyDigitalpoint - 10-20-2011 (10-19-2011, 11:28 AM)Zack Wrote: So I'm running Firefox 7 on Fedora 15 right now Good point to consider! Maybe Firefox has best performance when it's ran on Linux operating systems, I haven't tried it though. However I can see in my FTP a Mozilla directory that has inside folders for Firefox and its extensions. I was wondering why, but probably the owner of this server has installed it on top of everything or, who knows. I have Slax installed on a USB memory stick so I have to give Firefox a go to see its performance from another approach. RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - RichardGv - 10-20-2011 (10-20-2011, 01:08 AM)Zack Wrote: Very secure. You seem to have a lot of ad blocking extensions. Do you block ads here? Oh, hmm, sorry, I forgot to add niftyhost.us to whitelist. Honestly my first thought when reading your post is: "Wait, NiftyHost has ads?"... :S Well, I thought every Firefox user has Adblock Plus & Element Hiding Helper installed... It's not a lot, really. I only see a big banner with "advertise here", though... RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - Zach - 10-21-2011 Yep. Now it will count your pageviews so we're more likely to get an advertiser. RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome - Jake Horsfield - 07-24-2012 I used to use Google Chrome as my main browser on all of my devices but now I've switched to Firefox. Here's a couple of reasons why:
I'd recommend that anyone who hasn't tried Firefox, to do so. I bet that you'll stick with Firefox! |