(This report came out a couple weeks ago, but I just found it and don’t recall seeing anything here about it yet)
Just look at that beautiful, beautiful graph. Naturally IE is still the most used browser due to its “installed by default” advantage, although its usage has been declining at a reassuringly steady rate. But I’ve been adamantly touting Chrome since it first came out, and it’s absolutely skyrocketed in adoption up to 25.7% of users, while Firefox trails at 25.2%. I can’t help but feel I deserve some partial credit, thanks to all the people whose eyes I’ve opened to The One True Browser to Rule Them All (and I work in tech support, so I am recommending browsers to people all the time).
When you say serious CSS stuff, are you talking about analysis/troubleshooting/dev-type tools? I’m not a web developer, but when I do have to delve into the markup I find the built-in “Inspect Element” feature of Chrome really handy even without additional extensions. Or are there CSS3 features that are supported by FF but not Chrome? Not trying to contest you here, I’m just curious what you’re referring to specifically. It’s OK to get into techno-speak, we’re all nerds here.
Firebug for FF is a tool that a web developer won’t go without. Last I checked (not terribly recently) it was not fully functional for Chrome. Just checked, it’s still crippled.
With inspect in Firebug, I can actually make changes to the css on the page on the fly - I cannot do that with it in Chrome.
I mostly use Chrome, but there are some sites that are not always compatible (and good luck writing them that fact-- “Have you emptied your cookies?”). FWIW, these are mostly shopping websites.
Right-click the relevant part of the page, click “Inspect element”, find the code you want to edit, then double-click the code in the main window, or CSS in the smaller window, and edit. Click off your edit to implement on the page.
I don’t like chrome/chromium. It just comes across as extremely clunky and difficult to use. Plus I couldn’t live without FireFox addons.
But that’s a matter of personal taste.
I don’t pick what browser I like because of what other people of using. So whether Firefox is used by 99% of people, 25% of people or 0.01% of people, I’d still use it.
Chrome has “extensions” which are exactly the same thing as FF add-ons. It is very unlikely that you have any major add-ons that don’t have a similar equivalent in Chrome.
I’m a fairly new Chrome user and I like it but one thing I’ve found that it lacks is the ability to choose a zoom level or a “fit to page” in the print preview mode. I often need to print data from a website and in IE I can choose print preview and then scale it to 80% so that it all fits nicely on one page. Chrome doesn’t seem to be able to do this.
Not sure what you mean… when you go to print (CTRL+P or Wrench > Print) you have four icons in the lower-right hand corner (they disappear after a few seconds, but if you hover your mouse over them they return): fit to page, full-width zoom, and then plus and minus magnifying glasses to fine-tune the level of zoom. It doesn’t give you a numeric % of zoom though, if that’s what you’re talking about.
No, that only changes the onscreen view of what you’re printing. It doesn’t change how much fits on one printed page. For instance if I Ctrl-P this SDMB thread, it shows that the thread will be printed on 7 pages. Using Chrome’s zoom buttons lets me look at those 7 pages zoomed in close or zoomed out, but it’s still 7 pages. In IE’s print preview, I can choose to shrink things so that the thread fits on fewer pages.
Okay, I just figured it out. In Chrome you can go to Wrench>Zoom and zoom the view out first, then choose print and it will be shrunk to fit on fewer pages. Yay! That will come in handy. (I still wish it could be done from the print preview)
I had a thread about it in GQ, but I really prefer to have a separate search bar in the upper right corner, with a pull down menu of my various search engines. I get the whole keyword thing for Chrome, but really prefer just clicking the menu, choosing the site I want to search, and searching it. It keeps my search history nice and separate from my address history.
