Good Bye Firefox

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I can't believe it took me so long to discover how wonderful Google Chrome is...

I've been using Firefox for like 5 years straight, and was convinced in my head that it couldn't be beaten... but, as I was installing more and more extensions, it was becoming ridiculously slow and eating up all my RAM, so this morning I decided to install the latest version of Chrome to test it out... wow, amazed at how fast things load! I installed all the same extensions + a few others and it's still ridiculously FAST.

What are the reasons why some people are still using Firefox? I did a quick search and pretty much all cool extensions for Firefox are also available on Chrome.
 


I was fuckin around with opera and it is not all that bad -- but no plug-ins tho
 
"NoFollow Simple" is a good one, have also got "PageRank Status" running that doesn't seem to show data most of the time. When you download these extensions it is great how they slot in there straight away. Firefox still seems a better option for building sites, but this will probably change soon and for browsing Chrome is much better. I hate the thought of everyone using Firefox with that damn Adblocker so am glad that general users are moving to Chrome (no doubt due to the speed and the themes).
 
In my opinion:

For general browsing Chrome > Firefox
For building sites, site research, etc Firefox > Chrome
 
I don't know what kind of crap you have installed, avatar33, but I have about all the regular extensions you use for web development and SEO and have 20+ tabs open in Firefox and it's only using 300MB of RAM and 1% CPU right now.

When I load a Java game it'll start using about 30% CPU, but that's to be expected.

Do keep in mind, I like plenty of screen on my browser and hate having tons of toolbars. So, I use the "Customize" feature and only pull off the parts of the toolbars I want. I assume you don't, which is why it's eating a ton of your resources.
 
zany zoroaster said:
Have fun letting Google interlink all your sites and accounts.
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Google, the master of information, doesn't need a puny browser to do this.

Seriously though, if Chrome was sending usage information without consent, I'm sure you'd be seeing a ton of lawsuits before now. It's pretty easy to pick up with Wireshark or some other packet monitoring application.
 
Rexibit said:
I don't know what kind of crap you have installed, avatar33, but I have about all the regular extensions you use for web development and SEO and have 20+ tabs open in Firefox and it's only using 300MB of RAM and 1% CPU right now.

When I load a Java game it'll start using about 30% CPU, but that's to be expected.

Do keep in mind, I like plenty of screen on my browser and hate having tons of toolbars. So, I use the "Customize" feature and only pull off the parts of the toolbars I want. I assume you don't, which is why it's eating a ton of your resources.
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This. Mine with a couple tabs open only uses 122 MB. I bet if you did a clean install of Firefox it would be blazing too.
 
If I leave it open (which I do most of the time), FF can easily eat 1gb of ram and use about 12% of my CPU power. But it's not a big deal because I've got 8gb of ram and a Core2Quad processor. I run FF, MegaPinger (pinging 100k + sites at a time), Photoshop, Adobe Premier, VLC (I always have a movie of some sort minimized), Opera, Chrome, Safari, IE Tester (I'm a web developer), and a whole mess of folders all at the same time. I'm starting to get out of memory error messages though so I'll soon upgrade to 16gb or 24gb of memory. I'm also considering getting a 256gb SSD, but I can't force myself to do it when I could get 4 2TB hard drives for the same price. :P
 
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