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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2009, 11:32:10 PM »
It's so Windows 3.1-plain it's hardly like it's there.  Love it.

Small icons and no icon labels.

Actually, everything looks good on my draconian grey-everything Windows theme.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #26 on: August 24, 2009, 11:33:18 PM »
I was about to bump this.

After much deliberation, I've found which one is best:












both




Firefox is better for all around web browsing. Chrome is better for video.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #27 on: August 24, 2009, 11:43:09 PM »
I can't get Youtube (which is made by Google) to work with Chrome (which is made by Google) about 30-50% of the time. How is it better for video? please explain.

Chrome also isn't compatible with Netflix, so I automatically have to fire up IE, so thats another negative.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #28 on: August 24, 2009, 11:59:48 PM »
I have no problems with youtube, but I was talking about divx. I stream a lot of HDTV and it's almost always divx. Firefox plays it back choppy as hell while chrome is nice and smooth.

Chrome has it's faults though. For one, it likes to crash and scripts die often. It's annoying, but that's why I only use it for video.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #29 on: August 25, 2009, 12:08:32 AM »
Please let me know when Chrome gets some add-ons

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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #30 on: August 25, 2009, 12:47:03 AM »
YT works fine on Chrome for me.  On my computer, Chrome is faster, cleaner, far less pop ups, and crashes less.  Me like it.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #31 on: August 25, 2009, 01:12:44 AM »
The main problem is this laptop I'm on, it's old. My computer, at my house is a C2Q and runs everything perfectly, but I need a browser that is gonna run smooth on this computer.

FF was good until you run out memory every other hour.
Safari is kinda slow, but atleast loads everything the first time(98% of the time).
IE is riddled with small annoyances (but is needed if I don't have FF <ie tab ftw>)
Chrome is quick, but sometimes pages just don't load until you refresh. Youtube might not fully load at all on some videos, just a black video box.

I might try out Opera & I wanna see how bad sea monkey looks, but I might end up just dealing with FF and find an extension that fixes the problem. Or find an old version of FF before v3

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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #32 on: August 25, 2009, 01:23:47 AM »
Opera does well in low memory environments.

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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #33 on: August 25, 2009, 02:37:15 AM »
I use Sea Monkey on my Win98 relics.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #34 on: August 25, 2009, 03:11:49 AM »
I found a list of FF add-ons that cause problems and how to fix them.
needless to say, I'm back on FF with Chrome running just incase ;D


has anyone used the other Mozilla browsers besides FF & SM?
like Thunderbird & Sunbird?
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« Reply #35 on: August 25, 2009, 04:17:14 AM »
I've used Netscape before.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #36 on: August 25, 2009, 03:55:50 PM »
IE is riddled with small annoyances (but is needed if I don't have FF <ie tab ftw>)

Funny thing is that IE tab was causing the problem of memory leaks. No IE tab :( (ie view lite instead - no it's not the same) but the computer works fine now.

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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #37 on: August 25, 2009, 04:00:09 PM »
So once again Internet Explorer causes problems. Between IE and Flash, almost all browser evil flows into the hearts of PCs.

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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #38 on: August 26, 2009, 12:00:04 AM »
Opera does well in low memory environments.

Per your recommendation, I'm downloading it now. 
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #39 on: November 11, 2009, 05:39:27 AM »
yes sure google Chrome is the best browser, when i first downloaded it, my internet was running at a lighting speed, i even checked my speed http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/ and it was normal too, hitherto i used firefox which chocked my browsing capabilities .
But the only one advantage with firefox is that it has more add ons, which makes things much easier

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« Reply #40 on: December 09, 2009, 02:18:45 PM »
Chrome now has a new beta version that supports extensions:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/
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AdThwart - Version: 0.2.40
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Displays a list of potential bargains, based on sales rank increase.

Beautify Facebook - Version: 1.0.2
Makes Facebook a little bit nicer to look at

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Extension which lets you read your Facebook news feed and wall

Facebook Notifications - Version: 0.2.4
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KillText - Version: 0.7
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Wave Notifier - Version: 0.2
Wave Notifier is a Google Chrome browser extension that shows various information from your Google Wave account.

No ext. for NoScript or AutoPager yet, but as soon as either of those show up and Netflix supports it(Chrome)*, I might not have a need for Firefox anymore.

edit: * it has IE Tab, so I can stream Netflix in Chrome.
I'm sure I can live without NoScript and AutoPager** for now.


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(28) - 1,992 users - Weekly installs: 1,335A browser Extension for auto loading paginated web pages. AutoPagerize use in many web site, and provide efficiently web browsing.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #41 on: December 10, 2009, 04:42:43 AM »
Speaking of autopager. Is anyone finding the new forum upgrade not compatible with autopaging?

I haven't been able to get it to work with FF. Anyone with other browsers finding AP functioning here?
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #42 on: December 10, 2009, 05:37:05 AM »
not working with FF nor is it working with Chrome

but Netflix is streaming directly through Chrome with no need for IE tab. :D

this is a big deal for the laptop that I am on.
Only problem I am having right now is that the ad blocker I'm using (<AdThwart>i have to test the other 2) won't block "ads by google" on certain sites.

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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #43 on: December 10, 2009, 01:33:18 PM »
What the heck is Autopager?
Why must all things be so bright? Why can things not appear only in hues of brown! I am so serious about this! Dull colors are the future! The next generation! I will never accept a world with such bright colors! It is far too childish! I will rage against your cheery palette with my last breath!

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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #44 on: December 10, 2009, 01:40:59 PM »
What the heck is Autopager?
Autopager is an add on for Firefox. With it say on these forums there is a very large topic it basically makes the topic so you don't have to click over to the next page. Once you read down far enough it loads the next page on the same webpage. So say there is 5 pages to a topic. Once you reach the end of page 1 it loads page 2 below it. Very convenient for E3 and reading large topics.It also helps when reading a blog that gets updated constently during the day.Gonintendo for example.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #45 on: December 10, 2009, 01:48:46 PM »
Does it update in real time?  For example, if someone posts a new message will it automatically load at the bottom of the page?  If so, how does that affect the NEW listing on the thread list?
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #46 on: December 10, 2009, 01:52:18 PM »
When the heck is FF coming out with a mulithreaded version? This is becoming ridiculous.

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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #47 on: December 10, 2009, 01:56:13 PM »
I'm trying to recall since I haven't used firefox in a while. I think it updates when you reach a new page. Say you are on page 4 and you go to page 5 it updates any posts that were made while you were reading page 4.
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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #48 on: December 10, 2009, 02:21:14 PM »
yeah. it only updates to the latest post at the time the page was loaded. But if you have a lot of post to catch up on, then Autopager/AutoPagerize is the way to go.


It also works on things like google searches, which is especially handy if you are looking up images, since you can infinitely scroll until you reach the last page if necessary.




But I'm glad AutoPager isn't working with this site anymore since it wasn't working properly anyway. But AutoPagerize fixed some of the issues I was having with AutoPager on other sites as well, since it would keep loading screens so fast, that I could never make it back to the original page I was on sometimes and would have to close the window and start over again.
I couldn't even find the original page if I went up to the arrow and tried to click directly on it. I like to keep the 1st page as the bottom back page so that there aren't too many pages loaded in the memory.

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Re: Chrome vs. Firefox
« Reply #49 on: December 14, 2009, 01:21:01 AM »
Ok. I'm switching back to Firefox after 5 days of Chrome.

It looks nice and sometimes it runs quick, but after awhile things just lag, some things don't load, and ad blocking doesn't work like I want it to.

The ad blocker lets the ads load but then doesn't show them and that is what is causing most of the problems. The browser is waiting on the ads to load before loading almost everything else. It's very frustrating since eventually the browser starts to chuuuuuuuug along slooooowly and requires that I close all of it and restart it all.

FF is fine as long as I run a PC doctor like program to clear the cache and free up memory before before running a netflix/hulu video if I've been surfing extensively before hand. As a browser FF runs great, but videos can chop if I don't clear up the mem first.