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Google Chrome: Time for a Second Chance?
johnk:
I am in the same boat as you with requiring roboform. It is the sole reason I do not use opera.-Josh (July 27, 2009, 07:17 AM)
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I have often wondered by how much Opera's user base would increase if the program supported third-party add-ons. Every time you see a thread on the browser war, there are always a few posts which say: "I'd love to use Opera but can't live without Roboform" (and I'm one of them). I understand Opera's standpoint re security of add-ons, but still...
eschen:
Chrome and the latest Safari are definately better than Firefox if you use them for surfing only. For development Firefox is still the best tool (still wait for a port of its Firebug plugin). Firefox is too memory hungry, unstable, slow and the user experience is not as good. I'm still sad that they gave up the original Mozilla trunk for this crapped architecture that Firefox still has. Although, I wait for a better Chrome. Meanwhile I prefer Safari a bit.
Hirudin:
When I was first considering going back to Firefox (from Chrome) I tried to do a couple of "tests" to see which one was faster. What I did probably wasn't scientific, but it was conclusive enough for me.
I would open both browsers, click the bookmark button in Chrome then click the same bookmark button in Firefox. Firefox would actually finish loading the page before Chrome, even though Chrome got a head start.
Maybe by messing with the settings the results would have been different.
Hmmm, I just tried it again. They were both very fast but about even, if one is faster it's not appreciably faster in my opinion.
mahesh2k:
Chrome is crashing ever since i uninstalled Visual studio 2005 from PC. when i tried to use "Spell checker" it used to prompt some dialog box asking for restart chrome. This was happening frequently with chrome. Sometimes it was even used to crash if Flash/Silverlight pages stopped responding.
Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,
I was recently on a computer with limited resources, XP 512 MG - so I think in a situation like that Firefox with some windows open becomes a problem rather quickly, close and reopen being the norm. So I loaded and suggested trying Chrome (this is relatively light stuff anyway).
Note that Chrome is actually the Google version of the open source Chromium, which keeps a low profile.
Chromium
http://code.google.com/chromium/
Download (.zip recommended for placement)
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/win/LATEST/
Is Chronium Better than Google Chrome ? - Cliff Notes
http://clif-notes.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-chromium-better-than-google-chrome.html
Opera has a big problem for me in that the integration with Linkman, adding a URL, can fail, a primary function in a browser. Outertech says that at times Opera does not want to properly declare its Opera-ness. (It is well-known that Opera can be a bit stodgy in dealing with API situations.) Also I have not gotten the functionality that I like from Tab Mix Plus, however that might be there. So I will retry Chrome or Chromium (had Chrome up before the last XP install). Overall I tend to like its minimalist approach. And use it in tandem with Firefox and see how it goes, I am a big believer in always having more than one browser at hand. If the tabs are good and the Linkman integration is good, I'll probably be pretty happy.
Shalom,
Steven
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