PSA: People who talk about Firefox vs Chrome but don't use any extensions....

[LinuxIdiot]

Firefox for greasemonkey scripts ftw.

Good thing chrome can run those scripts natively

 

[Capt Caveman]

Good thing chrome can run those scripts natively

Unfortunately, not the ones I use. I would have to install Tampermonkey or Greasegoogle for them to maybe work.

 

[alfa147x]

Lol @ how this thread turned into another mac vs pc thread...

 

[AstroManLuca]

SAFARI is the worst browser I have ever come across. It's slow, freezes up all the time, has horrible plugin support, heavier than chrome/ie/firefox, etc... even Mac users hate it... how can anyone say it's good?

This, holy hell Safari sucks balls. Why must Apple keep working on it?

Maybe they should hand it off to someone who knows how to make a good browser and only handle the UI end of it themselves. At this point IE is better than Safari, even though it's ugly.

As a former Mac user it seems Apple's best apps are their Mac-only ones. iPhoto, Garage Band, iWork, I don't know what else but they all seem better than the likes of iTunes, Safari, and QuickTime.

 

[Lean L]

Extensions? They are add ons for a browser. What the hell is the OP rambling about? Extensions don't make up the browser. How about memory usage, load times, script rendering, usability, security. OP FAIL

 

[fatpat268]

What most people don't realize is that Chrome has some pretty good extension support as well. Most of the major/popular ones from firefox have moved over to chrome or have a worthy counterpart. Even adblocking is nearly as good on Chrome now (it doesn't load the ad, then remove it anymore... it removes it beforehand now). I use Chrome nearly exclusively now, and with just a couple of extensions, I haven't missed firefox at all.

Edit:
For reference, these are the extensions I use on chrome.

 

[Kev]

chrome is marginally faster than firefox, and I had been using it until FF4 came out. But the extension selection on FF simply blows chrome away.

 

[HAL9000]

SAFARI is the worst browser I have ever come across. It's slow, freezes up all the time, has horrible plugin support, heavier than chrome/ie/firefox, etc... even Mac users hate it... how can anyone say it's good?

It's not great in Windows but in OSX it's perfect, I love it and it's the browser for me.

 

[blurredvision]

Have we not gotten past the browser wars yet? Why do people still care to argue over their preferred browser?

 

[Fayd]

Never liked her show, never thought she was a good actress.



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You guys keep saying battery life... the only battery in my DESKTOP is the RTC battery. That little CR2032 lasts for YEARS. :hmm:

yeah, but who uses a mac desktop? 0.o

i kid... the imac is kinda sexy if you don't need a good graphics card and have a NAS.

 

[HAL9000]

yeah, but who uses a mac desktop? 0.o

i kid... the imac is kinda sexy if you don't need a good graphics card and have a NAS.

I have a Mac Pro, and love it, wouldn't swap it.

 

[zokudu]

Opera users are superior to all you plebeians.

 

[HAL9000]

This, holy hell Safari sucks balls. Why must Apple keep working on it?

Maybe they should hand it off to someone who knows how to make a good browser and only handle the UI end of it themselves. At this point IE is better than Safari, even though it's ugly.

As a former Mac user it seems Apple's best apps are their Mac-only ones. iPhoto, Garage Band, iWork, I don't know what else but they all seem better than the likes of iTunes, Safari, and QuickTime.

On a Mac Safari is excellent.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Even if I'm just browsing Facebook, I prefer Chrome over FF. Chrome is much faster, doesn't hog RAM after being used for long periods of time (FF "leaks" memory or whatever the term it - I notice it will be using quite a bit more than Chrome over a long period of time), and I like how it looks/functions quite a bit more than FF. Yes, how something looks matters to me.

I am also a Mac user for the basic reason that the UI is much better and on my laptop, I get 6 hours of battery life without doing anything fancy.

 

[Scouzer]

I actually like Chrome's extension library more than Firefox's...

Chrome > FF.

 

[yuchai]

Have we not gotten past the browser wars yet? Why do people still care to argue over their preferred browser?

Seriously. Especially with the newest versions (IE9, FF4, Chrome 10/11) they all kind of look and work the same anyways.

 

[bfdd]

It's not great in Windows but in OSX it's perfect, I love it and it's the browser for me.

that's because you're a steve jobs cum junkie. silly fanboy, safari sucks no matter the os. chrome and firefox are both better than safari in osx or windows. safari is junk and i would still probably use ie7 over the most uptodate version of safari.

 

[QueBert]

SAFARI is the worst browser I have ever come across. It's slow, freezes up all the time, has horrible plugin support, heavier than chrome/ie/firefox, etc... even Mac users hate it... how can anyone say it's good?

People who use it, like it. I LOVE the Cover Flow history browsing, there's nothing even close for any other browser. I've never had it freeze up on me, and it's not slow *shrug* And I don't care about plugins, outside of Flash I've never used one. And as for it being "heavier" I have 8 Chrome windows open, no video, no Flash, just 8 text pages. And my memory usage is over a gig. This is on Vanilla Chrome with no plugins outside or whatever comes with it.

*EDIT* Actually my Chrome mem usage is right at 1,250 megs. And I opened all the exact same tabs in Safari right now. 166 megs