02-28-2011, 08:47 PM | #101 |
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I've been using Chrome for about a year now. I still have Firefox on this system and I recently opened her up to see what it was all about. I was amazed at how slow Firefox feels compared to Chrome. I used to swear by Firefox.
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02-28-2011, 08:50 PM | #102 |
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I do the same thing (delete the text for the bookmarks). It's a decent stop-gap, but they are still much more widely spaced than smart bookmarks in FF and I can only fit about half the icons on my bar. Frustrating that they still don't have anything for this. Plus it sucks having to delete the text.
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02-28-2011, 08:51 PM | #103 |
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I'm also a Firefox to Chrome convertee.
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02-28-2011, 08:58 PM | #104 |
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I love Chrome as well.
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02-28-2011, 10:15 PM | #105 |
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I would love Chrome if it worked on my Vista.
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03-01-2011, 05:30 AM | #106 |
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Has Chrome ever implemented individual cookie handling?
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03-09-2011, 12:31 PM | #107 |
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I just made the switch to Chrome. Tried Firefox 4 beta & compared it ti Chrome. Firefox 4 seems like a half-assed mix between Firefox & Chrome. Loving the speed of Chrome, but there are some little annoyances like on here where some of the option tabs just show the little picture missing icon instead of the usual tab.
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03-19-2011, 07:27 PM | #108 |
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03-19-2011, 07:31 PM | #109 |
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IE9 is Microsoft's first good browser in ever?
Still not switching off Firefox though. |
03-19-2011, 07:32 PM | #110 |
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03-19-2011, 07:33 PM | #111 |
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I'd consider switching to Chrome, I just don't consider it enough of a improvement to give Google even more access to me.
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03-19-2011, 07:34 PM | #112 | |
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The anti-IE stigma is just to ingrained in me. Shallow I know, but that's just what it is. Even after using it and really having no complaints, being pleasantly surprised even. |
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03-19-2011, 07:41 PM | #113 | |
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To each his/her own.. I don't see the facination with FF either, but I'm in the minority I'm sure. |
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03-19-2011, 07:49 PM | #114 |
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Has Chrome ever fixed the fact that you can't handle individual cookies?
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03-19-2011, 07:50 PM | #115 |
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Well before Chrome it was Firefox or bust. I tried Opera several times over a few years, disliked it quite a bit.
If the current trend continues I may switch, likely to Chrome, but right now I'm content with Firefox and the addons I use. |
03-19-2011, 08:01 PM | #116 |
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Firefox is getting slow and buggy for me.
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03-19-2011, 08:02 PM | #117 |
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IE 9 is super fast and has all the features that I loved with Chrome.
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03-19-2011, 08:08 PM | #118 |
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IE always seems to have more hackers associated with it tho. More popups more hacking more viruses more leaks more everything.
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03-19-2011, 08:10 PM | #119 | |
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That's IE6. IE7 and more so 8 mostly fixed that but they were garbage. IE9's not garbage. I just feel all IE-icky using it. |
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03-19-2011, 08:27 PM | #120 |
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IE9 is really nice. You should all give it a try. Feels a lot like Chrome but a little faster and without the privacy issues Google has.
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Then use Chromium. Same browser, no connection to Google. |
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03-20-2011, 07:36 AM | #123 |
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It's not necessarily the same browser. Chromium isn't as stable, but still a good option I guess.
You guys should seriously look at IE9. It's really good. Microsoft get unnecessarily shit on by people for things they actually do well. This is one of them. It's the best browser on the market at the moment. |
03-20-2011, 07:48 AM | #124 |
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Amen RainMaker, again.. it's super fast and works great.
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Uh, not unnecessarily. You have a company that basically stopped any serious development on its browser twice once it crushed the competition so it's a pretty fair criticism. That's the kind of bs business decisions that should lose you some corporate goodwill that you need to win back. SI
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03-20-2011, 12:10 PM | #126 |
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Thought I'd give Google a try after using FF for years. I gotta say it loads up pages faster. Might stick with it.
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03-20-2011, 02:11 PM | #127 |
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I'm pretty fair when it comes to not caring who made what, and certainly no MS basher (I own a WP7)... but Chrome is still preferable to IE9.
Chrome > IE9 > Firefox
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03-20-2011, 06:12 PM | #128 |
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IE9 > Chrome > FF
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03-21-2011, 12:41 PM | #129 |
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I think that Chrome, FF4, and IE9 are fairly evenly matched, but I still like the extensions of Firefox. Chrome though is super quick.
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03-21-2011, 12:48 PM | #130 |
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I haven't tried Chrome (Google scares me like a creepy stalker), and I haven't really used IE since right before FF2 came out (been using that since). Whatever recent change FF made, it wiped all my settings and it's been a real bother getting my new settings to stick for some reason. I haven't tried IE9 ... it just feels like going back to a Day Care center that molested you as a child.
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I understand not trusting them and choosing to use other products. I'm talking about people who will say a product sucks without using it. Like the backlash they got on Vista which wasn't a bad OS at all. |
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03-21-2011, 03:11 PM | #132 |
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Vista was a horrible OS at release.
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That's another thread though, I don't see anyone in this thread saying IE9 sucks.
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Yeah, I was more commenting on the general vibe across the web. People tend to have a distorted view of a product based on loyalty or past experiences. For instance, people treat Firefox like the God of browsers when it's been shit for a few years.
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03-21-2011, 04:02 PM | #135 |
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Right now I would rate the browsers:
Chrome > IE9 > Firefox 4 I probably use Firefox more than the others thanks to the number of extensions, but I have not been a big fan since FF 3.5 |
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I never realized how bad Vista was until I installed Windows 7. Holy crap. |
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Chromium > Firefox > IE9 for me. IE9 still takes forever to startup, hangs all the time loading webpages, and is just generally sluggish. Plus, I don't have any extensions with it. |
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Yeah, I'm calling shenanigans on trying to sneak by the claim that Vista wasn't that bad. It was awful with no device support and horribly unstable for at least 6 months, if not a year. It has improved but Windows 7 is much better so it just looks like Windows 7 Beta SI
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OMG Windows ME was the worst of all time.
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03-21-2011, 07:47 PM | #141 |
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I think we can all agree to that SI
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In Windows ME's defense I think they decided it needed to exist then released it 2 weeks later .
Come to think of it, that's a pretty lousy defense. |
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The best was playing games on it ... after a couple of hours you'd get ... NOT ENOUGH MEMORY OMG CRASHING.
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While we're discussing IE9, it appears to be confusing the board's "View First Unread" feature. I'm still going back to posts from yesterday right before I installed it.
Will try clearing caches, etc if it didn't do that on install.
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It had a bad launch and was released too early. But after SP1, it was much better than XP and the criticisms were unwarranted. |
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03-21-2011, 08:27 PM | #147 |
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It's fate was well sealed prior to SP1. Still can't believe you are arguing that. It was a broken mess and did not deserve a second chance.
And no, it wasn't just older manufacturers, it was pretty much all of them. Damn near global video, sound and printers issues all come to mind. A good amount of which were still an issue post SP1. Last edited by jeff061 : 03-21-2011 at 08:28 PM. |
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Vista got a bad rap for being the first consumer OS built for multiple processor cores, and ran lousy on single core boxes. It ran fine on multi-core, recent machines. The driver problem rests squarely on the hardware manufacturers who feel we should be grateful they provide any drivers at all for their hardware. The early issues were ironed out quickly.
SP1 was actually the nail in the coffin for one of my systems, since I could not get it to install without corrupting a system file and therefore failing to boot. That said, Win7 is much better.
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Well that's the common argument, but I find it hard not to put the fault on MS when nearly all third parties suffer from the same problem. Bottomline is Vista was trapped in development hell for almost 6 years and because of this they released it before the hardware manufactures could get drivers out the door(and before the OS itself was ready). MS also caved to Intel pressure and vastly lowered hardware requirements so Intel(I think or may have been Dell/HP) could badge their lower end machines as Vista capable. That's on MS, not Intel. Last edited by jeff061 : 03-21-2011 at 09:02 PM. |
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It ran like ass on my multi-core, brand new machine.
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