Anyone here use Google Chrome?

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[BUTCH1]

Wrong forum...

 

[Red Squirrel]

ROFL! That's awesome.

Reminds me of this:

 

[SlitheryDee]

I use Firefox mostly, but I have chrome installed in case something won't display properly on FF. Everything seems to work though so I almost never use it. What's this speed advantage you guys are talking about? I never noticed that in my limited use. Is it really that much of a difference?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

I have it installed but it would be my third choice. I generally use Opera, and then IE for the occasional site that doesn't like my customized Opera.

IE? What the Fuck?

 

[mrrman]

Its better than IE anything

 

[ralfy]

Had memory difficulties when opening many tabs, so I switched to Pale Moon 64x.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Chrome on occasion. Rarely though. Firefox for me.

Nothing really wrong with Chrome I guess, but I don't particularly care for it that much. Can't put my finger on exactly why.

 

[trmiv]

I've been Chrome exclusive for quite awhile now, a few years I guess.

We even switched to it at work because our ticketing system runs waaaaaay faster on Chrome than IE, and unlike Firefox, SSO actually works just like IE so I don't need to sign in.

 

[mmntech]

Chrome's big speed advantage is that it runs each tab as a single process. Firefox tries to run everything as a single process, and is prone to memory leaks.

Chromium is nice but I find it's funny with some things on Linux. Some Flash sites don't always recognize it, and sometimes it won't launch Chrome apps properly on the first try.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

i use it on my phone.

 

[mikeford]

Using Chrome now, basically I use whatever until it has issues, then switch.

 

[purbeast0]

chrome is all i basically use now, especially after seeing how awesome the developer tools are with it. it's impossible to go back to using firebug for development after using chrome's tools. the browser is definitely much faster than firefox as well.

 

[TwiceOver]

 

[ISAslot]

Firefox. I like to scroll while my pages load.

 

[Wyndru]

MS remade into a different form.

This reminded me of a something I've been meaning to ask about...does Chrome still use a lot of IE's built-in functionality? I remember if you had a proxy, you could put it into IE and Chrome would respect it. I think it was the same with SSL certificates also.

Firefox uses it's own settings completely, which can be annoying when you need to make changes throughout an organization. I know there are 3rd party versions of FF that support adm templates, but I wish they could just make it easier out of the box (well, esr versions that is)

If Chrome is still using IE's settings, I may end up switching our districts over because managing FF is a pain in the ass.

 

[cronos]

I had been Chrome exclusive for at least 2 years, but last year I added Firefox back in the mix because I needed to be logged in to two Google accounts and while Google support for multiple accounts have been extremely improved, it's still a lot easier to just open up two different browsers and login separately.

I still consider Chrome my main browser though and often lost trying to navigate the web from anything else.

 

[smackababy]

chrome is all i basically use now, especially after seeing how awesome the developer tools are with it. it's impossible to go back to using firebug for development after using chrome's tools. the browser is definitely much faster than firefox as well.

Does Chrome actually let you manipulate the http requests and responses now? It didn't use to (which was the only reason I kept FireFox installed).

When Chome first came out, I tried it and wasn't too impressed. Using extensions was cumbersome (had to add arguments to the executable) and FireFox was simply better. After a year or so, I tried it again and it was near perfect. I pretty much only use Chrome now. The fact that it runs everything in its own thread is just lovely. Having tabs able to fail gracefully enough it doesn't crash the browser, or extensions fail without ruining everything, is what all programs should strive to do.

 

[purbeast0]

Does Chrome actually let you manipulate the http requests and responses now? It didn't use to (which was the only reason I kept FireFox installed).

When Chome first came out, I tried it and wasn't too impressed. Using extensions was cumbersome (had to add arguments to the executable) and FireFox was simply better. After a year or so, I tried it again and it was near perfect. I pretty much only use Chrome now. The fact that it runs everything in its own thread is just lovely. Having tabs able to fail gracefully enough it doesn't crash the browser, or extensions fail without ruining everything, is what all programs should strive to do.

not sure about that, i've never had to do that so i'm not sure. but the debugger alone and how you can traverse the dom and inspect it, and make changes to it is miles ahead of firebug.

 

[biostud]

FF here. I don't like how chrome handles bookmarks.

 

[Fritzo]

I basically work out of Chrome. I love that I can sign in from any PC and my settings, extensions, saved form data, etc follows me where ever I go.

I kind of laugh at the "I DON'T TRUST GOOGLE" crown. I've been using Chrome and GMail since at least 2008, and not once has anything happened where I said "What the....Google shouldn't know about this!!!"

Maybe in 40 years they're going to post a list of all the porn sites I visited and put them on my gravestone? Not sure.

 

[herm0016]

firefox at home. chrome on work computer for non work browsing.