I’m a Firefox user until Chrome gets a vBulletin Manager wannabe or the official thing or something that does the same thing. Gotta block all the trolls at a message board or two that I frequent dontcha know.
I like Chrome because it’s “cleaner”. I don’t like to have a bunch of icons on my desktop and I don’t like having a bunch of buttons on my browser. Plus, it’s more intuitive, and leaves more screen space for non-browser stuff.
The downside to Chrome as far as I’m concerned is that occasionally you run into sites (mostly government sites and the like) that require IE or Firefox. So I keep those installed.
If it is just a rendering problem there is a Chrome extension called IE Tab or something similar that causes the page to rendered as it would be in IE, without the need to actually open IE.
I have already read it. What’s your point?
I keep coming back to Firefox too, even though Chrome seems faster, cleaner and more stable. For me, it’s plugins where I haven’t been able to find an equivalent on Chrome. I use the most recent Firefox 4 beta on both the PC and Mac, and it seems quite a bit faster and more stable than FF 3.
That would help for a couple but mostly it’s sites that say “you must have FF or IE to access this site.” Progressive.com, for example (although some of it works in Chrome).
That’s the exact reason why I don’t use Chrome. Without buttons, I don’t know where to click!
I switched to Chrome simply because every time I start up Firefox, I get a window called the “Error Console.” Every time. And this is what it says:
(Obviously that information is not “well-formed,” but what exactly am I supposed to do about it?)
I’ve reinstalled Firefox many times, and upgraded it. I’ve gone over the settings, and options, etc., but this window still comes up every time I launch the Firefox. I got just tired of closing it all the time.
However, I have to go back to Firefox for printing files, because the Chrome print options are just about zero.
Right now, Chrome is my top browser. Fast and clean.
Opera is number 2.
Firefox is slow and clunky, especially starting up. I stopped using it as soon as I caught on to Chrome.
MSIE is mediocre, but is necessary for some MS-only web pages. Luckly, there are add-ins for Firefox and Chrome that let you use its rendering engine within the other browser.
Safari is the worst – lack of features and a silly bookmark scheme designed just to be different and not to be better. It’s only on the market because Apples ship with it.
Probably a dumb question, but have you tried removing the Yahoo Toolbar? (I was going to say “…then reinstalling it”, but thats a recommendation that sticks in my throat)
Yes. Those weren’t the only problems. It also has things like, "
Warning: Unknown property ‘zoom’. Declaration dropped.
Source File: Google
Line: 3"
About 25 of them. This it also has: "
Warning: Error in parsing value for ‘display’. Declaration dropped.
Source File: Google
Line: 0"
And so on. It’s not just Yahoo. My version of Firefox just hates the whole world.
Blimey. Long shot: this isn’t on a corporate machine that has some sort of permissions lockdown, is it?
No, it’s a personal laptop. Moreover, at one time Firefox and this laptop had a beautiful relationship. Now it’s all I can do to keep them from hurling insults at each other about parsing values, unknown properties and permission denied. It’s brutal.
Chrome, hands down. (reasons have already been stated in the thread - and the extension offerings are pretty damn good so that’s not a valid reason to choose Firefox over Chrome)
Firefox is the backup browser for the occasional site that’s not with the times and still hasn’t added Chrome support (or for testing if you’re a web dev / have to do tech support).
guizot: The errors you’re seeing in the Firefox Error Console are not abnormal; what is abnormal is if the Error Console is automatically popping up - it’s not supposed to open unless you ask it to, either via the menu or hotkey combo (Ctrl-Shift-J). It’s possible one of your extensions is somehow triggering this behaviour.
Those should work as well, as the IETab is actually using IE, and tells he website that it is IE (or, at least, it should.)
But if you are wanting a solution that doesn’t involve using IE, I’d suggest reading this website. When Chrome finally adds an API that will allow extensions to do it, you can just use this extension, but, for now, you’ll have to use the command line.
ETA: And that right there is an example of how their extension support still sucks, Rigamarole. There are multiple extensions that can do this in Firefox, and there has been support for it from day one.
Reinstalling Firefox does next to nothing if you don’t delete your settings. Did you try creating a new profile?
I just did, and that seems to have solved the problem. Thanks, BigT!
I can’t even make my stuff readable without spell checking as I go. FF has the best of that IMO.
I’m old and need bigger resolutions and manny sites do not render well with Chrome et al. Still a lot of sites that are IE monsters and FF seems the best at rendering them for me. I don’t like a lot of stuff open as I do not have a powerful machine and FF combines the best of what I need.
I have IE, FF, Chrome, K-Meleon, Oprah, AOHell, on this XP machine and Chrome, Seamonkey, FF on my Ubuntu Machine.
I try to use what is needed for a certain site if FF does not do the trick but pipe size and computer speed restrictions make all the nano second bench clocking you all are fussing over, a moot point for me and manny others out in the woods.
YMMV
There are Chrome add-ons galore being asked about and brought up.