Mozilla Firefox vs Google Chrome

[noah]

@dEnigma when you open Firefox just click on the Firefox button and then click on Bookmarks. There you can click something like "import" or "import from another browser" (I don't remember what it says) and then it should come up with Chrome, and then you just check Bookmarks and History. All your stuff should appear in Firefox.

@everyone the reason I have arguments with this kid and people is because of a few things. So the school desktops come with IE 8. There are no features with it; it doesn't even let me right click (not IE's fault, my account's fault). So all students have 500mb of network storage, so no matter what computer your using you have the same stuff. So I went to Mozilla.org and downloaded Firefox and saved it to my hare of the network drive. So now on every computer I use I can open up Firefox instead of IE. I also know a lot about Chrome since my mom has it (she just switched to Firefox though since her godaddy workspace login didn't work with Chrome and my school's Angel Learning also didn't work with Chrome, but she still opens Chrome when she gets on her computer because she is so used to it). So kids come up to me when I'm doing homework or class work or whatever and their like, "Woah, how did you do that? You should use Chrome instead."
So then an argument starts.

@NV I'll try some of that. Or I'll just tell him to shut up (maybe I'll bring up the cactus).

[Zee530]

(05-04-2013, 10:55 PM)LordVador Wrote:

(05-04-2013, 09:48 PM)Zee530 Wrote: What is Chrome?

Was it an ironical way to say that Chrome was sh..?

Sarcasm ftw! :3

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:@NV I'll try some of that. Or I'll just tell him to shut up (maybe I'll bring up the cactus).

Yeah it's just not the same without the cactus.

[ExtremeDude2]

We already have a thread like this D:

I demand to know why we have a new one

[noah]

(05-05-2013, 09:03 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: We already have a thread like this D:

I demand to know why we have a new one

It was mainly to be a thread asking for help with my situation. Then I saw the poll option and thought why not?

[AnyOldName3]

Why I use Chrome:

Really easy to sync stuff between multiple devices

I like the GUI best

Out of what I've tried, it's the fastest (but I've barely used FF)

It works well with Gmail, which is pretty inevitable

Other minor stuff.

Why I don't use FireFox:

I already have Chrome, which is at least as fast, and does everything I want

[Tatsuya1221]

Both have their advantages and disadvantages, chrome generally is faster (as in it doesn't use alot of RAM, making it good for weaker pc's) and it doesn't use flash, while firefox has addons and more privacy features.

I personally use firefox because i outright do not trust google, that and the addons i use chrome will never have in any form.

Superiority though?
Honestly i would say firefox is superior atm, heck even opera is superior to chrome for me, simply because of addons.

[lamedude]

Chrome has Flash integrated which counts as using Flash to me. If you don't trust Google use Chromium instead.

[MayImilae]

Not to mention you can disable anything that reports back to Google. And even if you don't, those things are anonymous, and all the other browsers do that same kind of stuff too.


Personally, I use Chrome for its speed, light weight, and stability. On my crappy old laptop that runs my internet, these are everything. Firefox will eat up tons of memory, and then click on something and the whole browser (sometimes the whole system) will just die. Chrome lets me have more tabs open and even if something breaks, it just breaks one tab. Gotta love that. And all the addons and features I used to use in Firefox are in Chrome now, so I'm quite happy.

And Chrome is THE browser to use on dialup. It's speed focused design, heavy duty caching, and bullish requests to servers really help when all you have is a trickle of bandwidth.

[NaturalViolence]

Chrome is much faster in startup time (although it does freeze up for a long time if it's restoring a session with a lot of tabs which FF does not) mainly because it has less stuff to load at startup (which also means it uses less initial memory). So that is a legitimate advantage. In terms of memory use neither one uses a significant enough amount of ram for anyone with more than 1GB of ram to care about. Which should be everyone at this point. The only real way to raise memory use is to open more website in more tabs, and FF seems to be better about handling that due to the caching that I mentioned earlier. I tried crashing FF on my old pentium M 1.86 GHz 1GB of ram laptop by repeatedly opening the same website in new tabs. Even after 100+ tabs is still showed no signs of slowing down whereas chrome would lock up my whole system before it hit 50. Not that this matters at all for your average user. I'm just pointing out how the "it uses less memory" argument breaks down at a certain point.

I seem to have had the exact opposite experience as MaJoR. Especially this part:

MaJoR Wrote:Chrome lets me have more tabs open and even if something breaks, it just breaks one tab.

I've had chrome chrash on me because of an issue with a single site lots of times. Whereas FF seems to just stop whatever tab/plugin is causing the problem.

AnyOldName3 Wrote:Really easy to sync stuff between multiple devices

I like the GUI best

Agreed on both. The stock GUI looks better on chrome. I end up using custom themes and settings on either one though so it doesn't matter so much to me.

MaJoR Wrote:It's speed focused design, heavy duty caching, and bullish requests to servers really help when all you have is a trickle of bandwidth.

Agreed. When I'm low on bandwidth chrome becomes noticeably faster.