However, here’s a weird thing. When I switched ISPs recently, I started having weird connection problems with the new ISP - every so often, the Internet would just seemingly die for a minute or two, but only new connections. As in, all of my web page requests would time out, but I could see that BitTorrent was still downloading/uploading on connections that were already in progress. The problem usually resolved itself after a couple of minutes but sometimes I’d have to manually restart the router.
OK, you’re probably wondering how this is relevant to Chrome. I found that switching back to Firefox as my web browser almost completely stopped the problem, except, notably, when accessing the Google+ website. Google+ would crash my internet connection about 75% of the time I tried to use it, even when not using Chrome.
After trying every troubleshooting technique I could think of and my ISP could think of, I finally just replaced their shitty router with a much nicer and more powerful one, on the grounds that I wanted a better router anyway and maybe, just maybe, this would help with the intermittent connection problem. Lo and behold, the new router = no problem whatsoever. I’ve gone back to using Chrome and am very happy about that. Google+ doesn’t crash my router anymore either.
But I just thought it was intensely weird that one particular browser would cause a problem like that so I thought I’d mention it in case anyone has insight.
Yes. Universal Search. It also gives you the option (if you want it, it can be disabled) to have a little pop-up icon that appears any time you highlight text on a page. Clicking that icon will let you run a search on any of your installed search engines (e.g. Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon, etc.) for the highlighted term(s), which opens in a new tab.
False. Chrome is consistently ranked as the fastest browser in independent performance tests. (OK, technically it placed first on Windows machines, with Safari placing first on OS X and Chrome second. But obviously that’s because Apple cheats)
That’s why I’m still using FF. Quite a few of my favorite addons are not available on chrome, and in some cases when they are they don’t work correctly.
Possible fodder for a GQ thread, but is there an add-ons/extension for making the transition from FF to Chrome easy?
Ideally, it would act just like FEBE, a FF add-on that takes a snapshot of your FF setup (bookmarks, toolbars, add-ons, even open tabs) and restores them to any instance of FF using FEBE.
If it doesn’t take care of downloading and installing current add-ons, what about listing which ones are transferable? Does anything suggest alternatives?
That’s pretty much the opposite of my experience. According to my session manager, I routinely have 11 to 40 tabs open at a time, which would have absolutely crippled Firefox (circa FF 5 or 6, anyway). And this is on a rather pokey computer with 2 GB of RAM.
Pretty much all I use FF for is StopScript when I’m visiting websites of questionable repute.
Oh, and as much as I loved Firebug, I find Chrome’s “inspect element” functionality to be less buggy and more intuitive.
Interesting, this page shows FF is first, Chrome a rising second, and IE a distant third. It shows IE hasn’t been number one for nearly three years. Which one should we believe?
Common experience is that FF takes a ridiculous amount of time to load initially and that pages load slow enough to become intolerable once you’ve gotten used to Chrome’s speed.
Great. So Firefox is just going to emulate Chrome even more. It would he hilarious if that was what was costing them customers.
Chrome won’t let you magnify text or set an arbitrary zoom level. And since all addons have to fit in the same row on the top, it looks horrible. And all of the addons themselves are less powerful: Chrome adblock can’t block video ads well,
Furthermore, I report problems with Firefox, and 90 percent of the time they get fixed. I’ve reported and reported those same problems in Chrome, and I get nothing.
The only real problem with Firefox is that they are now setting out to be a Chrome clone and not doing a good job. If you want a fast, lean, no frills browser, you go with Chrome. You want a browser that will let you do whatever the hell you want and turn it into a truly customized experience, you go with Firefox. And if you want bleeding edge features decided for you (some which may suck), you go with Opera.
I mean, Mozilla is currently doing a ton of things I hate (killing live bookmarks, refusing to fix simple bugs, duplicating development features, ), but I still can’t move to Chrome due to its lack of features. And, unfortunately, that’s perfectly fine with the developers.
