Chrome is bloody, bloody fast. Everything happens pretty much instantly, whereas Firefox still has a perceptible delay, small as it may be. Firefox has addons. Except Chrome does too. But Firefox's ones are generally more mature. Though Firefox seems to like to break compatibility with them every time you update to a new version. Firefox has a lot more tools; you can install different toolbars, etc, and you generally get a lot more choice over how it looks. But Chrome is really, really simple, and that means lots of screen space too. Firefox works better with forums. Chrome works much better with fewer tabs open; everything starts slowing down after about the 10th tab. Whereas Firefox is a lot slower overall, but its speed doesn't degrade as much when you open lots of tabs. Chrome is practically multithreaded - even though each thread can only run on one core as far as I can tell, Chrome creates one for every single tab. On the other hand, this also means that if you have lots of tabs open when you call up the Task Manager you can't see anything useful because the whole processes pane is taken up with lots of Chrome.exe's.
tl;dr: It depends on what you like. Use both of them.
Netflix works just fine in Chrome. I agree with locking the links on the homepage though. That's been my one complaint since day one.
Undo close tab is already built in, it's Shift+Ctrl+T.
It seems chrome has gotten better ))) Im happy about this because it is fast, and sorta sexy.
Ad thwart seems to actually work now! NO more loading then hiding ads??? Is this my imagination?
Nice find! This was the ONE thing that's been killing me ever since making the switch to Chrome. I just tried this addon, and sure enough, they don't load at all!
It seems chrome has gotten better ))) Im happy about this because it is fast, and sorta sexy.
Ad thwart seems to actually work now! NO more loading then hiding ads??? Is this my imagination?
It's your imagination.
It's not the extensions problem that ads are loaded and then hidden. It's a limitation in Chrome itself.
Well sorta, i am indeed not seeing the ads. But they are being loaded, i still dont see them. I dont mind them actually being loaded as long as they are not visible then disappear (that was horrible, i would rather them just stay). I think i actually saw them being loaded in the far left bottom corner, but im not sure, the shrooms are kicking in lol jk.
I hate ad blockers that show the ads then make them disappear. Very annoying. There no point of even having a ad blocker if that happens.
yeah me too. How are the other ad blockers now on chrome? Thwart seems pretty decent for now.
Pros of Google Chrome:
* Synchronized bookmarks. I know that firefox has this as an add-on, but I like knowing it won't break with an update, is stable, "just works", and also my bookmarks shows up in google docs.
* Better use of real estate. More of the page shows up because Chrome has eliminated the bottom status bar and file menu.
* Doesn't have this weird issue where a flash video will start lagging one second out of ever 10. This shows up after leaving Firefox open for awhile. This issue also affects typing; if I am typing a long message I'll discover parts are missing where Firefox momentarily froze. The fix is to just close and reload Firefox, but it's still annoying. Started in 3.5 but hasn't been fixed in the most recent Firefox yet.
* You can drag a tab outside the current window to open it in a separate window, and it keeps the same page open without reloading the page. Very nice if you are watching a video, and want to have it display separately on your second monitor without having to reload it. This also works in reverse; drag a window to a second instance, and it will seamlessly show up as a new tab on the other window without reloading. Supposedly Firefox will support this soon.
* Omnibar (combining the url and search bars into one). File this under the "why didn't anyone think of this before". Makes total sense.
Cons of Google Chrome:
* No dropdown list in the omnibar that you can click with your mouse without entering text. I was in the habit of using this to remember recent sites I had visited in Firefox without going to history. However, it didn't take long to get over this, and in fact it is not really a con anymore because I am now fine without it.
* No RSS feeds in bookmarks. This one I really miss. I like being able to go to an RSS folder in bookmarks and quickly seeing if anything new has been posted in my subscribed feeds. In Chrome the best you can do is subscribe to feeds in Google Reader, but I find this to be a hassle and often now forget to check my feeds for updates.
* Not as many add-ons. I miss the form text-saver add-on (in case you get logged out before you submit a form) and a fully functional greasemonkey. I don't mind not having something like adblock since I realize websites need me to see their ads in order to survive.
* No firebug. Google Chrome dev tools are pretty decent however and make a fair substitute.
They all do the same thing, hide ads and not block them.
Chrome on ad free sites is faster on my netbook, but once I actually go to real sites that have ads it's slower than Firefox with adblock+.
Chrome and Privoxy is better resource wise than chrome with ad blockers, but Privoxy really misses so much.
What is Opera like as far as ad blockers go?
I switched back to firefox recently mainly because of the amount of malware being served up by rogue ads.
Does Chromes version of ad blocking leave you vulnerable to these ads if it loads them (however briefly)?
I switched back to firefox recently mainly because of the amount of malware being served up by rogue ads.
Does Chromes version of ad blocking leave you vulnerable to these ads if it loads them (however briefly)?