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Google Chrome Vs Internet Explorer

I have chrome for checking things quickly, because, yeah, it is fast as fuck.

I have firefox for heavy-duty internet browsing, cuz i have it uber-customized with scripts and plugins.
A good one is "Hyperwords".
I just select any text, and this lil menu pops up, with WHATEVER I want in.
instantly in-line converts any currency, temperature, weight, mass, volume, distance, area speed etc. also instant inline translations between any language pair.
say its the title of a film, can instantly open tabs in background for the imdb page, the amazon page and, say, a demonoid torrent search for it.
dont know the meaning of a word? wiktionary is right there.
same goes for wikipedia, britannica,
the best thing is that I can add ANY search field i encounter. i just right click on the bluelight search field and click "add to hyperwords".
after that, anywhere on the net, i can search bluelight for any bit of text, at two clicks.

thats just one of many, many plugins, which now mean firefox takes something like 30 seconds to start up sometimes, hence my need for chrome.

IE is a piece of shit.
 
I haven't used IE since v5 or 6, so I don't know about that. Chrome -is- very fast, but I'm kind of spoiled on Firefox with AdBlock Plus, NoScript, BetterPrivacy and assorted other addons. I hear Chrome is going to support addons soon or already does, I'm not sure, I think I'll have to check it out again.

Newer versions of Opera have also been very fast and they've added some neat features like a built in bit torrent client which I wouldn't really use over uTorrent or Vuze. It also has link sharing which is kind of like X-marks for Firefox I guess, and Unite which I haven't really played with yet, it's some kind of mini-server within your browser that allows you to stream content and share files.

Firefox has been pretty good to me though, I haven't had any bad memory leaks for a few versions now but I guess that's still a problem for some people. The Firefox 3.7 alphas out now use your GPU for acceleration, I haven't tried that yet either but I will once I get my new rig together with a decent video card, it's also reportedly very fast..
 
Maybe I'll get chrome again after reading these posts. Last time I had it was about 8 months ago and it was definitely a beta browser. It just didn't work; way more buggy than any initial windows operating system release. I kept faith that google would eventually turn it into the pinnacle of browsers because google is awesome, but haven't thought about getting it again until now.

Currently I'm a huge fan of firefox and have been for a long, long time. I like it because if its speed and customization but most of all because of its speed. One thing I recall from an interview with a google guy was this idea that chrome will be light and completely minimal, and allow people to actually experience the content with the bare minimum interference. Gmail is the best mail, google is the most useful search engine in history, so I,ve got high hoped for the future of chrome even if it hasn't reached its zenith as of today's date.
 
Firefox has become very sluggish in the 3.6 version and when you add the plugin container it's a resource hog, particularly since I'm too skint to afford a newer difference engine. I forbear though, because of the addons. It could give me mild electric shocks every half hour and I would put up with it for Adblocker alone.

I will end up having another go at Chrome, I found it just a bit twitch inducing in the launch version. I think my aversion is bolstered somewhat because those chinese appeasin', "don't be evil" data stealin' hypocrites have quite enough grip on the net already
 
I used google chrome briefly, didn't care much for the layout . I didn't think it was much faster than firefox.

Back to firefox :)
 
chrome beats IE mercilessly . i woun't be without it . it does it all for me .
and google's ''ghostery'' nabs what ever program that is watching your site selection and blocks their access . most are benign an watch what you buy and so forth.

google may be acending to monopoly position but my machine purrs with it/ i will worry later when some dirt is put forward.
 
google chrome is blazing. far faster than anything but maybe safari but WAY more stable. safari freezes or crashes often when I have my typical way-too-many-windows-and-tabs open, but google chrome seems to handle it with aplomb. I like how it opens new tabs just to the next of the tab you are on if you use "open in new tab" instead of all the way to the right like opera... also how snappy and interactive dragging tabs around the bar or off the bar to become their own windows is.

And I have *NO* idea how the hell it loads and displays pages that fast... while other browsers are going (load... partial draw... pause... load... partial draw... flicker.. partial draw... pause... load... etc etc) on complex pages, chrome just seems to go Brrrrrap!!! and in an instant the entire page is there. Impressive and amazing. And as I said it is rock solid and stable, though I HAVE crashed it but only after exceeding system memory by trying to open an utterly sick number of windows/tabs, silly me!

opera is indeed also quite fast, and yea I like having a built in torrent handler so I use it for that... also rather stable and good at handling multiple widows/tabs, but I dislike the open-in-new-tab placing the new one to the far right, and it is somewhat less stable than chrome... I get "not responding" and it goes dead from time to time
 
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The only thing I dislike about google chrome is the bookmarks menu.

Takes ages to scroll down if youve got loads of bookmarks.

Edit: Sorted - so yes, chrome is the best.
 
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I read the whole article and I still don't get it. We're talking about 400ms difference on a page which takes at least several seconds to load.

If we're talking customization and interface, firefox is still the best as far as I can see, and the speed difference is a whole lot of hype.
 
firefox is a resource hog but less so then chrome with multiple tabs open. internet explorer is nothing special, it isn't bad by any means, but there are better options, like most other browsers for example. firefox is best for security (add-ons) imo mainly because of keyscrambler but i am not sure if it is available for chrome as i haven't bothered checking.

chrome is good for internet exploring, firefox is good if you want all those extra things, the speed difference isn't all that amazing and not really noticeable.

there is my opinion and i don't know how relevant it is to anything
 
i just picked up chrome this week. i like it as a stock browser and i use it for surfing/posting.

ill never give up my ff though, ad block, no script, fastest fox and the crown jewel: down them all!
 
i find chrome loads faster than ff on my machine, and all of the extensions are available on both. but what i'm having trouble with is remembering to just write my search query in the address bar. i keep going to google and then searching. i am a creature of habit, i s'pose.
 
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