Chrome or Firefox?

[SunSamurai]

Firefox + Addons is unbeatable.

Absolutely. The "addon" model is always a success. Apps, Addons for FF, and even World of Warcraft. Customization is what people want!

Now if Opera/Chrome could hurry up and realize this.

 

[Locut0s]

Absolutely. The "addon" model is always a success. Apps, Addons for FF, and even World of Warcraft. Customization is what people want!

Now if Opera/Chrome could hurry up and realize this.

Well they are far more likely to eventually support addons than Apple's Saffari ever will. What with Apple's our way or the highway approach to much of their stuff.

 

[Red Squirrel]

How does chrome deal with bad javascript code, and popups? Stuff like window resizing, and all the crap that some sites like to do with javascript. I'm considering switching to chrome but I don't want stupid crappy sites screwing around with me with js tricks.

 

[Modelworks]

How does chrome deal with bad javascript code, and popups? Stuff like window resizing, and all the crap that some sites like to do with javascript. I'm considering switching to chrome but I don't want stupid crappy sites screwing around with me with js tricks.

Get admuncher.
Admuncher isn't free, there is a free trial, but it is the best money I ever spent on software. It not only blocks ads but deals with the crappy java sites as well. It also works for any browser installed without need to do anything but run the browser so no need to download a specific plugin . It never annoys you about what is being blocked. I forget its there, it just sits in the systray with the little cow gobbling up junk.
http://www.admuncher.com/

Works especially well if you like to try out different browsers because they all get ad/pop up blocking whether they have plugins or not.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Get admuncher.
Admuncher isn't free, there is a free trial, but it is the best money I ever spent on software. It not only blocks ads but deals with the crappy java sites as well. It also works for any browser installed without need to do anything but run the browser so no need to download a specific plugin . It never annoys you about what is being blocked. I forget its there, it just sits in the systray with the little cow gobbling up junk.
http://www.admuncher.com/

Works especially well if you like to try out different browsers because they all get ad/pop up blocking whether they have plugins or not.

I don't want to pay or pirate something though. Really the perfect popup blocker would be an extension that simply blocks actual popups. Instead of just trying to block certain code, block the actual popups windows. If something is telling the browser to create a new small window, block it. Then have an option to allow specific popups through (maybe by title or something) or certain sites.

 

[Adrenaline]

If it costs less than $10 and saves you aggravation, then it is money well spent.

 

[Modelworks]

I don't want to pay or pirate something though. Really the perfect popup blocker would be an extension that simply blocks actual popups. Instead of just trying to block certain code, block the actual popups windows. If something is telling the browser to create a new small window, block it. Then have an option to allow specific popups through (maybe by title or something) or certain sites.

I understand about the cost, I didn't want to pay either, but I used it for a month and decided it was worth it because I like to try new browser betas and they often don't have ad blocking extensions that are updated .
Admuncher works like a local proxy server. All request to the web go through it and if you have something you want blocked it strips it out and you get the clean version, whether that is ads or specific javascripts or data you can choose exactly what you want it to do .

I forgot they also offer trialpay where if you do one month trial with someone like blockbuster or netflix you get the program for free.

 

[zinfamous]

Short answer = No

Long answer = Hasn't had a price since 2005.

I may finally give it a look-see then.

 

[judasmachine]

Firefox with a few excursions into Chrome. I just can't make that final leap. I think it's the ads.

 

[50cent1228]

i use chrome most of the time but i still got ff as a back up

 

[Babbles]

Sorry for dragging up a 9 day old thread.

I started to use Opera a bit after it being suggested in this thread to me, and I am very pleased with it so far. It is by far superior to firefox from what I have seen. I have yet to really try chrome and IE for win 7 finally pissed me off from not responding for the 378456132745172845712854712805478 time. Oddly enough, I have not had any other web browser have that stupid not responding issue.

Good to hear that you gave Opera a try. If you have a smartphone, I highly recommend their Opera mobile browser - at least on my Blackberry it is leaps and bounds better than the standard browser.

I suppose one problem with Opera is there is so much you can do the learning curve is relatively steep; tons of functions, just takes a while to find them all.

I know I'm ignorant, but isn't there a price tag on a fully-functioning Opera? That alone has kept me from even considering it... :\

It has been free for a while now. Earlier you could still download it, but they had an ad in the corner. I used it back when it came out and the ad never bothered me, but again it has been ad free & cost free for a while.

 

[Tristicus]

Chrome sucks.

 

[El Guaraguao]

Chrome sucks.

WHAT-EVERRRRRRRRR - socal rich republican white chick.

 

[fatpat268]

I used to kind of switch back and forth between Firefox and Chrome in the past, and I'd always come back to FF. Recently, I gave chrome one more go when they enabled extension support, and it's been sticking so far. I don't really have a reason for switching, but it's a nice solid browser that's becoming nicely fleshed out.

That said, some sites don't display properly in chrome (or aren't compatible), so I still have FF as a backup.

 

[Adrenaline]

Good to hear that you gave Opera a try. If you have a smartphone, I highly recommend their Opera mobile browser - at least on my Blackberry it is leaps and bounds better than the standard browser.

I suppose one problem with Opera is there is so much you can do the learning curve is relatively steep; tons of functions, just takes a while to find them all.

I finally had a bothersome issue and a minor issue with Opera this evening. I was watching movie trailers from quicktime and was getting like 80% of the picture on everything. I used FF to see them. A minor issue was two popups but they were taken care of quickly. Overall this has been a far superior browser to IE and is doing better overall than FF for my usage.

 

[lokiju]

I was trying Chrome for awhile but some sites I use for work stuff don't support it which made me go back to firefox.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I finally had a bothersome issue and a minor issue with Opera this evening. I was watching movie trailers from quicktime and was getting like 80% of the picture on everything. I used FF to see them. A minor issue was two popups but they were taken care of quickly. Overall this has been a far superior browser to IE and is doing better overall than FF for my usage.

When you have a site not working properly, try changing the user agent to Firefox (or IE) and see if it works properly afterwards.

Right-click an empty part of the page and choose "Edit Site Preferences" from the menu. Select the Network tab and change "Browser Identification" to "Identify as" or "Mask as Firefox".

I just tested this on Apple's site using Opera on Vista. As you mentioned, the trailer didn't work properly for Opera, but after I changed the Browser Identification and reloaded the page (important!) it worked as it should.

This change will only affect the site you do this for, which is a very nice feature overall (per-site preferences). From this menu you can also change pop up preferences, Javascript options (including disable), cookie management, animated images, etc, etc.

 

[trmiv]

I like Chrome, but I use Firefox. Until Google adds the ability to disable link underlining like every other browser, I won't use Chrome.

 

[Adrenaline]

When you have a site not working properly, try changing the user agent to Firefox (or IE) and see if it works properly afterwards.

Right-click an empty part of the page and choose "Edit Site Preferences" from the menu. Select the Network tab and change "Browser Identification" to "Identify as" or "Mask as Firefox".

I just tested this on Apple's site using Opera on Vista. As you mentioned, the trailer didn't work properly for Opera, but after I changed the Browser Identification and reloaded the page (important!) it worked as it should.

This change will only affect the site you do this for, which is a very nice feature overall (per-site preferences). From this menu you can also change pop up preferences, Javascript options (including disable), cookie management, animated images, etc, etc.

Thanks, that fixed the issue. I used "mask as FF" and had a little stutter on movie previews but when I changed it to "identify as FF" it ran smooth.

One other thing:

When I am opening up something in a new tab and hit the space bar to go down the page faster, it goes down the page but cycles to another thread at the same time. Any suggestions on this one?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

When I am opening up something in a new tab and hit the space bar to go down the page faster, it goes down the page but cycles to another thread at the same time. Any suggestions on this one?

Well that kinda seems like intended behavior. When I hit the spacebar while at the top of a thread it is "page down", but from the bottom of the page spacebar is "Fast Forward" (Next Thread/Page). You can change the key for that if you wish, under Preferences > Advanced tab > Shortcuts > Keyboard Setup > Opera Standard > Edit...

 

[pritski]

FF has a ton of memory leaks no matter how much I like it.

Probably not more than other browsers, though. Browsers are crazily complex. No wonder they all have some memory leaks.

Denying that only means you arnt part of their forums.

Visit any browser forum. Threads about memory problems are common everywhere.

 

[AppleHuHu]

I use Firefox.

 

[sswingle]

Firefox here.

I don't understand all the Firefox hate. It loads in about 2 seconds, and who cares that its using 300mb memory, I have 4 gbs, use some of it!

 

[fatpat268]

Firefox here.

I don't understand all the Firefox hate. It loads in about 2 seconds, and who cares that its using 300mb memory, I have 4 gbs, use some of it!

No firefox hate from me, but I do vastly prefer Chrome. Chrome comes up instantly when I click the icon. Not a big deal, but nice nonetheless.

That said, firefox used to take ages to open for me. At times, it took nearly 15-20 seconds to open. It took me a while to figure it out, and it wasn't the addons causing that (although, I admittedly have a bunch of addons), it was the stored history. I had a stored history all the way from July 09 to January 10. As soon as I cleared the entire history out, FF was pretty snappy opening up, taking about 2-3 seconds.

So, if your FF takes a while to load, check to see you don't have a huge history, and if you do, it might be time to clear out.

 

[Modelworks]

Firefox here.

I don't understand all the Firefox hate. It loads in about 2 seconds, and who cares that its using 300mb memory, I have 4 gbs, use some of it!

A lot of it for me is I just want a browser. I don't want 100 features or support for every API that someone ever thought up. I don't want a ton of extensions and every widget or addon to be supported. If it will just browse sites then that is what I want.

I am really liking seamonkey for that reason. It consumes less than 100MB and includes browser/email/newsgroups/IRC . It is based off mozilla code and using an integrated thunderbird client for mail. They use it in puppy linux too (windows works fine also), because it is so lightweight. I haven't found a site it could not render , it just isn't as fancy looking as the others.