Posted: 8/16/2011 5:56:16 AM EDT
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Thinking about downloading it. FF5 is a resource hog.
Also, can Chrome sync all of your bookmarks with different browsers? FF5 says it can but I couldn't ever get it to work. |
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Chrome is pretty good, none of them are perfect. I was the same as you, long time Firefox user, but it was getting slower and slower. I downloaded Chrome to try it and it was OK, yes it was fast and there was nothing wrong with it but I uninstalled it after a while, gone back to IE9. TBH there's not much in either of any of them, I perfer the look and feel of IE. The fastest I've used is Opera, didn't like the look or feel of that either. |
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Chrome is pretty good, none of them are perfect. I was the same as you, long time Firefox user, but it was getting slower and slower. I downloaded Chrome to try it and it was OK, yes it was fast and there was nothing wrong with it but I uninstalled it after a while, gone back to IE9. TBH there's not much in either of any of them, I perfer the look and feel of IE. The fastest I've used is Opera, didn't like the look or feel of that either. Yeah, Opera was pretty good, but it didn't render a lot of pages correctly. Maybe I should just revert back to FF2 or 3? |
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Maybe I should just revert back to FF2 or 3? FF2 has un-patched defects. Same likely applies to FF3. I've found FF4 to be gentler on system resources than 3. I'm using 5 with no problems; obviously, YMMV. Others: Opera: love gestures. Had gotten used to the interface. Renders some pages differently, and the aggressive caching is annoying when you're frequently refreshing a page. These days I only use it to vet pages/web apps I'm working on. Chrome: I like chrome, but think FireFox's UI is more polished. In page text search, the way form field are handled, and several other little things are done better in FireFox than in Chrome. That said, I use Chrome for Google products (gmail, Google Voice, Google Plus, YouTube, Picassa, Google Maps) as chrome is tuned for extra-HTTP communications that Google's web servers use. IE: I do not use IE. The only feature I like is the colored tab grouping –– which is hella nifty –– but everything else about it is just wrong. Turning off "web accelerators" and all the other crap IE tries to force into my User Experience is a P.I.A. |
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Chrome is pretty good, none of them are perfect. I was the same as you, long time Firefox user, but it was getting slower and slower. I downloaded Chrome to try it and it was OK, yes it was fast and there was nothing wrong with it but I uninstalled it after a while, gone back to IE9. TBH there's not much in either of any of them, I perfer the look and feel of IE. The fastest I've used is Opera, didn't like the look or feel of that either. Yeah, Opera was pretty good, but it didn't render a lot of pages correctly. Maybe I should just revert back to FF2 or 3? I run Opera almost exclusively, and it seems to render the vast majority of pages just fine. I really like the look of the latest version - very little wasted real estate. One feature I really like is the password management functionality - way better than IE. Worth another look. |
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I use to use FF all the time.
I tried Chrome when it first came out and didn't like it, but several months ago I re-installed it and decided that I really like it. Chrome is now my browser of choice but I still have FF and use it occasionally. I also have IE but I hate that program and only use it when I absolutely have to (some of our company stuff only runs properly under ie). |
