A Better Way

A Switch to Chrome (Mostly)

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I’ve almost totally exclusively switched to Chrome, kind of.

It’s so much better than FireFox. Don’t get me wrong- FireFox is great- but it’s just not Chrome.  I recently caught myself in the act of groaning when I had to open up FireFox just so that I could run (the absolutely FANTASTIC) FireBug, the same way that a year ago I groaned when I had to open up IE for testing. It just takes so long to boot, and in those eight seconds, I could have opened Chrome a dozen times. I’m writing this post in FireFox because it has Zemanta, not because I want to.

It’s strange when a browser that I fought against, and then fought for, fell so quickly when Google threw it’s weight into the arena. I was crazy about FireFox; every day I extolled its merits to coworkers, to family, to strangers who happened to glance my way. I do the same thing now, but haltingly, with a line like  “but if you really want to see something fast check this out,” as I load up Chrome.

Oh, come quickly, Chrome extensions, and may I banish FireFox to the realm of “browsers to load when testing”. FireFox, it was great while it lasted. Maybe someday.

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• #1 by Firefox on August 20, 2009 - 2:03 pm

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  Just FYI: You do realize the reason Chrome is faster is precisely because it doesn’t have extensions right? Compare an extensionless Firefox to Chrome. Same speed.

  If you want the speed you can’t also have the extensions. Pick and choose. Just thought you might like to know.

  Also, 8 seconds? Jesus what do you have installed. Mine loads in about 4, with a dozen extensions.

  • #2 by Jack Lawson on August 20, 2009 - 11:11 pm

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    It’s more than just the extensions. The extensions do add some overhead, but even on a clean system- my Windows 7 installation, for example, with no plugins yet- there’s still a huge difference. I don’t think it’s quite as black and white as “extensions cause all speed issues”.

• #3 by sherry on September 14, 2009 - 12:10 am

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  i am using Google chrome for more than a year the reason to switch to google chrome is that it is better tha the internet explore in a way that it store information n light to use…i often use to download my a training files so it automatically store in my directed folder…