6 Reasons Why Firefox Dude May Want to Switch to Chrome

makeuseof.com ^ | Apr. 21st, 2009 | David Pierce

[Still Thinking]

LOL

[gondramB]

>>(1) One Tab, One Process <<

That’s the only one that’s compelling to me.

But I use 35 plugins that would need to be duplicated to change from Firefox.

[sionnsar]

I use Google to check on specific news. But... I'm logged in from Finland, it detects that... and is giving me everything in Finnish. I can't read Finnish! The Finnish Google homepage doesn't seem to have a "news" link.

I hate websites that are too clever by half.

[Semper Mark]

You’re scary sometimes. [evil grin]

[shibumi]

I guess it takes one to know one.....

[Semper Mark]

Ain’t that the truth.

[ThePythonicCow]

I don’t know why, but it seems Firefox crashes a lot on Linux.

Firefox on Linux used to hang for me a lot as well. Since I managed to upgrade to a recent Adobe Flash add-in, Firefox has been more stable for me. Prior to the upgrade, I usually saw the hangs when (or shortly after) I closed a tab that had been displaying some Flash stuff.

[Rum Tum Tugger]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I installed Chrome several weeks ago but had not really checked it out. Your post prompted me to take a closer look.

The speed of loading and accessing pages is tremendous in comparison to Firefox — particularly, when using Avast. After installing Avast about a year ago, loading pages in Firefox became a problem. Chrome doesn’t seem to have that problem.

There are a few Firefox extensions that I miss, but Chrome’s speed in comparison to Firefox is a big plus.

I can definitely see making Chrome my default browser at some point.

[Big Giant Head]

After I left this thread last night, I spent some more time with Chrome. I imported all my bookmarks and started dragging them around in Chrome. But for the X-marks, I might keep Chrome as default on my main machine. I pulled several of my main bookmark folders, or categories, onto the bookmark toolbar, each with dozens of bookmarks in them. It’s much faster navigation this way. Very cool.

[Rum Tum Tugger]

Very cool.

Yep.

I've been using Chrome all morning. The more I use it the more I like it. The speed is fantastic in comparison to other browsers. It's simple, but very functional. I may make it my default as well.

In recent months, Firefox has been crashing on me at least once a day. I'm going to give Chrome a try all day. If no crashes, it's probably going to be my default.

[DYngbld]

I don’t know why, but it seems Firefox crashes a lot on Linux.

I am having the same problem. I am running suse 11, on an older laptop. I chalked it up as a memory shortage on the computer but I don't know. Firefox on windows is nice but I am so used to MSIE there was a bit of a learning curve so on the Windows machine I'll stick with MSIE, but on Linux I'll try anything stable.

[RobRoy]

What about MS Internet Explorer?

[free_life]

I have 8 tabs open in FireFox 3.0.9 and I am using 336mb memory, big deal I have GB’s to spare.

Google is the enemy and won’t find a place on my PC.

[free_life]

That was suppose to read 58 tabs.......

I have 58 tabs open in FireFox 3.0.9 and I am using 336mb memory, big deal I have GB’s to spare.

Google is the enemy and won’t find a place on my PC.

[al_c]

I’ve been using Safari for a while now and I am impressed with its speed and features. The only beef I have with it is I like the text as large as possible, and this makes the pages kinda funky looking at times. Bear in mind I’m no techie (I don’t even play one on TV.) How does Chrome compare to Safari?

Ugh ... I hate Safari ... and I'm a Mac user. Firefox is my browser of choice on Mac and PC.