excel_excel Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 I'm fully back to Chrome now. FUCK YOUR MEMORY LEAKS FIREFOX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyGriever Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 Anyone having problems with the chat in Chrome, just download the Canary Build. Works like a charm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgi Duke of Frisbee Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 Chrome for me. I used Firefox before, but as soon as I got my first taste of Chrome I jumped on that ship and haven't looked back. Now that Chrome has ABP I am the happiest camper in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Firefox 5 UI concepts: http://areweprettyyet.com/5/desktopApps/ http://www.conceivablytech.com/5673/products/firefox-4-in-march-a-first-look-at-firefox-5/ I think it's kind of like Windows 7 jumplists, so sites will have specific commands in the tab and not just "close tab/pin tab/duplicate tab/new tab" etc. Same way Win 7 programs don't just have maximize/minimize/move/close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddymoo Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Chrome chrome chrome. And Firefox before when it wasn't so gay. Chrome = Gmail Firefox = Hotmail Uh huh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Chrome chrome chrome. And Firefox before when it wasn't so gay. Chrome = Gmail Firefox = Hotmail Uh huh How did it become "gay" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Well when a browser loves another browser... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 I've been using Firefox for at least 5-6 years now. I think I first got it fairly close to its initial release. The main appeal originally was that I was the only one using it on a shared PC, so it meant I had my own start page and bookmarks. I take all that for granted now, but at the time it was so amazing I tried Chrome when it first came out, but I really didn't much care for its interface. Constantly hearing praise for it makes me kinda want to give it another shot, but meh... I'm weird like that. I tend to not really fight change when it's forced on me and I usually have no problem adapting. But if the change is optional, I won't go through it. Probably out of laziness. So yeah, strange mix of being set in my ways while not being too stubborn about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Are you using FF4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddymoo Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Well, gay as in, it's incredibly slow in comparison to Chrome. I mean, it's nowhere near as gay as IE of course. I like the simplicity and speed of Chrome. Not to mention, I'm a heavy user of Google Wave (yes, it's still there) and it works best with Chrome. I have successfully forced my sister and friends to use it so all good, all good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 (edited) Firefox. Downloaded Chrome, didn't see any reasons for me to switch, and set Chrome's default language to Japanese, with Firefox's default language set to English. I use Firefox for basically everything, but occasionally use Chrome. (Examples are when a page isn't working right, and I want to make sure it's the page and not the browser, or if I want to check my Flickr account to make sure everything that's shared publicly should be.) Part of the reason I like Firefox is that I also use Thunderbird for my work e-mail. (They're both made by Mozilla.) Edited February 17, 2011 by peteer02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 It's mostly Chrome and Firefox when I have to, since I have the same plugins on both of them. I have some sites that refuse to work properly on Chrome but have no problem on Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 I use firefox because Chrome crashes all the time I try to use it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) My Chrome has started "not responding" every few days in the last few weeks but it's still my favourite. It is also a complete nightmare on the xbox website for me where I get into an infinite login loop. But I just use the IE tab plugin and it's fine. The only thing I miss from Firefox is the cooliris plugin where you could hover over any link and it would make a popup preview of the page without leaving the current one. Google does it now on its search page but not for normal sites. I did want to like Opera as I think it is very innovative but it is just hard work to use and impossible to get rid of. Joe EDIT: I use both Chrome and firefox in beta so was keen to try the IE 9 beta but it wouldn't even load. I think we're spoiled expecting betas to be flawless now! Edited February 18, 2011 by TheFlyingGerbil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 http://www.conceivablytech.com/5746/products/google-may-kill-chrome-url-bar/ Chrome supposedly stripping the URL bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 So it'll look like IE9? I'm for it. I've always considered that a good idea in IE9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Firefox + Adblock Plus + that one script that likes to get constipated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Not really, since IE9 just puts the Address bar and tabs on the same level. By the looks of it this would combine the address bar into the Tab itself. Does net it half the vertical space of Chromes taskbar(and shy of a third of FF3's), though at the expense of bookmarks/favourites bar. Anyway since posting that link I've been pointed to the now relatively old: http://dev.chromium....ience/window-ui Thats right, that blog is running BS. The images it's going off for Chromes supposed changes is actually for ChromeOS, which would explain the touchscreen friendly view(Since 'til Honeycomb ChromeOS was potentially coming to tablets.) Also why they can got a kind of mixed fullscreen look with the side tabs, cos on Windows in Chrome you'd have the min/max/close buttons in the way still. But with ChromeOS you have none of those since it's their own OS to do with what they please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 For a netbook that's a rather excellent way to save space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigawings Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Opera user here, lightweight, not so many problem, the downside is only a few extensions and widgets, and can't grabbing flash straight from the website, but that's all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 http://www.networkwo...6-netscape.html IE6 and Netscape on the modern web. I think IE6 is a bit unfair since that's still around enough that sites are still built for it. IE5 at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 http://www.networkwo...6-netscape.html IE6 and Netscape on the modern web. I think IE6 is a bit unfair since that's still around enough that sites are still built for it. IE5 at least. Great idea, not such a great presentation. (Was a slide show, with ads, really necessary?) I also would have loved to see IE5 used, and show more sites that you'd expect to work, rather than the ones that obviously wouldn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masonvrocks Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 No love for Rockmelt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Mostly firefox, on a whim I decided to install chrome. Using it now. Ran into trouble with adding attachments to an email... on gmail. had to switch to firefox. was trying to download a file.. wouldn't work, had to switch to firefox. also: is there a way to get chrome to not remember history / clear history, cookies, most visited, url autocomplete when I close the browser? I found the "clear cookies and browsing data" option, but it doesn't seem to clear it all. I'm all for minimalism, but not when it comes to settings. I'm the sort who never stores passwords, clears the cache and history and cookies constantly. Came out to my advantage when my last desktop was stolen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 See I've not used it cos I have an email client (Which means I don't even know if I was one of those 150,000 the other day, maybe I should check) but I'm pretty sure due to Gmail being HTML5 compatible, and Chrome being a HTML5 browser you're meant to be upload files to Gmail (And quite a few other google services) by just dragging and dropping it like you would on most desktop programs. Did you give that a shot? Also what file wouldn't it download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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