Chrome, Chrome, and a thousands times over CHROME. :P
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Chrome actually sends everything you do to google. You should get SRWARE Iron.
It's a chromium based browser, but doesn't have the big brother google watching. It looks excatly like chrome! :)
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There are only 3 browser engines... webkit (used in chrome and many many others), gecko (used in firefox and a few others) and trident (used in ie and really few others).
Take your pick, it's not that much to try them all ;-]
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+1
I switched to Pale Moon, when Mozilla started destroying FF's UI.
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If you asked me a week ago, I would've said Chrome in a heartbeat but it's been a dick to me the past week so I would have to say Firefox.
Just wondering, are you having the same problems I have? Whenever I try opening Chrome, it takes minutes to open the program when opening anything else opens in a second; I cannot load new tabs and have to use the same window/tab or else it will be stuck forever on the white loading screen. Lately, I cannot even load one tab.
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I have 8GB RAM if that's what you're asking and Windows Task Manager says that the Chrome process is only using 36.8MB and I'm using 39% of my total RAM right now but Chrome just doesn't show up. And it doesn't matter if I just opened my laptop or if my laptop had been on for hours, Chrome still takes minutes to launch and even longer to load. I've deleted and reinstalled Chrome, and even removed my old Chrome profile. And this problem only exists with Chrome...I can open iTunes with 6K songs in a few seconds but Chrome with only 1 tab takes forever. Right now, I just tried it and it's around 4 minutes and still no show.
I've seriously given up on Chrome now...Firefox for near future until I find something better. Still using the Chrome app on my Galaxy S3 though.
Edit: 7 mins at 11:35PM PDT
Edit: Opened at around 11:37-11:38 so roughly 9-10 minutes for the window to pop up. Now just waiting for www.google.com to finish loading...
I actually think this is a problem between my laptop and Google's servers TBH. I couldn't even download Chrome through their installer. I had to find the installation files otherwise the installer would be stuck at "Downloading Google Chrome" for forever. And this problem came right out of the blue too. One minute, I was watching youtube videos just fine and looking through SG. Next minute, I couldn't load tabs and once I closed Chrome, it took forever to open again.
Edit: 11:44PM PDT www.google.com still hasn't loaded. It's just a problem with Chrome from what I can see.
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CPU: i7-3630QM
My Chrome is installed on my SSD which has another 50GB left out of 256GB.
My internet speed is 30Mbit/s meaning my download speed is about 3MB/s.
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If Chrome uses that much RAM with just a few tabs open, it has massive memory leaks. You don't need 4GB RAM for a browser, even 2GB is a stretch.
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I think I either have less or equal to him. He must be doing too much on his computer, because it runs fine for me. Other than the fucking Norton plugin crashing my computer. A LOT.
EDIT : Oh, I'm WAAAY too late for this thread. Fuck me. I'm blind.
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The problems with Flash most likely come from the fact that Flash is buggy. On several occasions it was actually better to use an older version of Flash, because the newest version had a bug that crashed the browser.
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The Firefox versions have been buggy. Perhaps Adobe prioritizes the Chrome version due to its popularity and because Flash is integrated.
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Quite the opposite for me, because in Chrome I get flash crashes everytime I open up more than 10 videos. This never happens in Firefox in which I've, at times, opened up 30+ videos and several other pages. I still use Chrome for fast surfing, since my Firefox is filled up with addons and is slower, therefore.
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Firefox is actually the best browser. Chrome isn't really safe, you can be spied by Google. The same with, for example, Safari. If you didn't ever hear about this - trust me, if you want privacy use Firefox, Opera or other browsers made by smaller companies.
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If you want privacy, dont use computer or your phone. :) and move in the middle of nowhere :)
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Flash is a pretty lousy example, if you want to argue that people should use Chrome instead of Chromium. Installing it takes less than 30 seconds, so I definitely wouldn't trade my privacy to save 30 seconds and no one really should.
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If it was one year ago, I would agree with you that Firefox is the best. Unfortunately, Chrome is now the best regardless of the spying.
As to why the spy features are there, it's cause they have stuff like Google Maps, the Omnibar and the sync features. Those need some certain spy features like saved passwords, location or stuff like that.
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The biggest problem I have with Chrome is the UI. It looks very ugly and the functionality I want from the UI is hidden or not even available. I prefer having the tabs under the address bar, but Chrome doesn't allow that. Chrome's UI was clearly designed for small resolutions where the ~100 pixels of extra webpage visility matters, but on larger resolutions it doesn't really make any difference.
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What's the point of having the tabs under the address bar nowadays? Having it there would just cause an empty space on the top, which I prefer not to have.
As for your statement about small resolutions, isn't it just fine like how it is currently?
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If you see how the old Firefox did it, there was a huge blank space at the top, whereas in Chrome you have less empty space just because the tabs are at the top. That's what I mean.
This tactic is called space maximisation and is the standard for all new browsers.
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If by huge blank space you mean the title bar, it's about 30 pixels, which is not much. At most you can see one extra line of text on the webpage. The space maximisation makes little sense on higher resolution (>= 1080p) when you can already see a lot of webpage even with the "classic" UI. Chrome was released when the small netbooks were quite popular and because those had small screens, the space maximisation made sense.
Personally I prefer the "classic" UI to any UI similar to Chrome's, because I don't want to go through several menus to find the functionality I need. Sure it takes a bit more space, but I'll trade the 2 extra lines of text I could see for a better UI any day.
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Most browsers have similar functionality by default, but it's much faster to access through a menu bar (yes, I still use that) than by going through submenus to find it. Chrome doesn't have a few addons that I use in Pale Moon, not to mention the lack of UI customization. I don't like the colour scheme in Chrome at all and as far as I know, it can't be changed.
My main problem with Chrome and its many forks is the UI. At the moment I still have an option to use a browser with a UI that I actually like, so I'm not going to force myself to use the one I don't like. Not to mention that Firefox/Pale Moon is more secure than Chrome with the addons I use.
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As long as your *not using IE, you should be fine. I generally say for everyday use Chrome, for Web Development Firefox.
*[How the heck did I leave out the not]
Chrome generally feels more responsive, but I won't drop FF as they have Firebug and easy to install extensions.
Chrome is more security focused in this regard and will make your life as hard as possible to install these unofficial addons. Great for newbies to avoid installing malicious web apps, but absolute hell when your trying to develop a GM script in Chrome, or use the crippled Chrome Firebug.
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For now, Firebug on Chrome is the lite version. The devs have an intention to port the full one.
As for unofficial extensions, it's harder than Firefox, but still pretty easy to do.
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Right, its just annoying to do, and you have to do it everytime you edit your script, not fun for developing.
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I'm pretty sure the functionality of Firebug is integrated in both Chrome and Firefox nowadays. Right-click webpage and choose "Inspect element" to access it in Firefox.
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Chrome is NOT working for me lately, I want to use another one but i need some advice. c:
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