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Anyone else download this today? I did and after about an hour or so of playing around with it I think I like it and going to stick with it. So long IE...its been a fun trip.
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Andrew Hall
Dennison Place (The Circles)
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Stuck w/ IE until such time as applications I have to run for work w/ work on something else.
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Posted 3 years ago # -
thefightinglibrarian
Running after the 'Bus
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I thought it was interesting that the NPR report tonight didn't even mention Firefox. The report was produced as though Chrome were the first competitor for IE. Anyway, I might give it a shot and see if it can pry me from my Mozilla....
Posted 3 years ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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I use Safari more than I do Firefox, mainly because I like how the spellchecking is tied into OSX. I just downloaded the new Firefox upgrade though, so perhaps it's tied in now as well? I use them both a little bit as some websites refuse to work with Safari.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Bear
The woods
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Andrew Hall wrote Stuck w/ IE until such time as applications I have to run for work w/ work on something else.
Try Camino with the User Agent extension installed. It lets you spoof IE quite effectively.
chaptal wrote I like Firefox. Might give it a download when they introduce it for Macs just to try something different..
When they...?
:)
Posted 3 years ago # -
michaelcoyote
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Introduction to Chrome by Scott McCloud: http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&printsec=frontcover#PPA13,M1
It looks good.. I even know some people on the Firefox team and I may have to give it a try. I like the idea of each tab/window being a separate process that can be killed.
Posted 3 years ago # -
milodesc
NJ
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with all the useful plugins available on firefox, I can't imagine chrome becoming my default browser any time soon.
a few other observations:
- the "stats for nerds" option is awesome
- chrome is bugging out on me as i type this post. anyone else having trouble with the text boxes on chrome?
- pages seem to load faster for me in chrome than firefox
Posted 3 years ago # -
shmack
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Walker wrote I use Safari more than I do Firefox, mainly because I like how the spellchecking is tied into OSX. I just downloaded the new Firefox upgrade though, so perhaps it's tied in now as well? I use them both a little bit as some websites refuse to work with Safari.
my spellcheck has always been linked with firefox... but the plugins for firefox are far superior to the (practically nonexistent) safari ones (i'm thinking leechblock in particular). that said, firefox is a ram hog and i grudgingly use safari as my main browser.
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joev
Merion Village
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Manatee wrote
I just had to throw that in there to compensate for the fact that I barely know what a "browser" is :)
I also like the new thingy. It has lots of plug ins for my various aps. It doesn't crash my system when I hack into the mainframe.
(I know nothing...)
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michaelcoyote
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shmack wrote that said, firefox is a ram hog
Memory management is *MUCH* better with the advent of FF3. If you haven't upgraded, you should. It does a good job of keeping the memory footprint of FF down.. especially if like me you have 2-8 windows with 15-20 tabs each open.
And as always adding physical memory is the best way to improve the performance of any computer.. Are you maxed out on the amount of memory you have in your machine?
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Rockmastermike
CORNspiracy HQ
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joev wrote
Manatee wrote
I just had to throw that in there to compensate for the fact that I barely know what a "browser" is :)
I also like the new thingy. It has lots of plug ins for my various aps. It doesn't crash my system when I hack into the mainframe.
(I know nothing...)
lol
ch0m3 r00lz d00d. i7 hax0r3z t3h G1bs0n & pwn3z t3h n00bz!
(wow... i havn't tried to type like that in a LONG time)
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michaelcoyote
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Rockmastermike wrote
ch0m3 r00lz d00d. i7 hax0r3z t3h G1bs0n & pwn3z t3h n00bz!
(wow... i havn't tried to type like that in a LONG time)
Last time I tried to type like that i got a cramp in my hand and couldn't type the rest of the day...
Posted 3 years ago # -
Rockmastermike
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michaelcoyote wrote
Rockmastermike wrote
ch0m3 r00lz d00d. i7 hax0r3z t3h G1bs0n & pwn3z t3h n00bz!
(wow... i havn't tried to type like that in a LONG time)
Last time I tried to type like that i got a cramp in my hand and couldn't type the rest of the day...
I used to have the firefox plugin that did 1337sp33k...
Posted 3 years ago # -
honavery
Arizona
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I downloaded it last week too.
It's pretty good for a first try, but I keep having issues with it (on gmail no less). Won't be switching from FF anytime soon. I do really dig the "porn" mode, and the built in task manager. I assume FF 3.1 will try to emulate some of these.
Posted 3 years ago # -
shroud
Polaris
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I downloaded Chrome when it came out last week too.
I like the aesthetics of it quite a bit. That's by far the biggest reason I've still been playing around with it. It just LOOKS clean.
The other feature I especially dig is being able to combine/separate tabs into multiple windows/back into the original. So nice to drag the existing tab & page state into a new window when I need two pages side-by-side for something, which is a somewhat common occurrence at work especially.
I love the concept that each tab is essentially it's own isolated application, so that if one tab crashes, the others remain up and running without being effected --however, in practice it hasn't really seemed to be working that way for me. When one tab locks up / is otherwise wigging-out, it seems to lock up everything until it gets "caught up", just like FF and IE.
The bugs/support issues are killing me though. Stuff like the text-display problems while composing a message here, which was already mentioned -- but it also doesn't seem to play well with AJAX. The new Facebook interface is a good example of that - a lot of the AJAX "pop-in" links just get ignored by Chrome - click and click and click, no worky.
Image loading on image-heavy pages seems pokey. I can't figure out if it's reverted back to pre-loading all the images before displaying them, or if the threading is just slow.
The most annoying one is probably how (not well) it handles Flash. Flash embedded video (such as YouTube which is freaking OWNED BY GOOGLE) just chokes the tab (and therefore the whole browser - despite being advertised otherwise) completely. Don't try to scroll a page with the video playing either - that's especially problematic.
And, of course, so many add-ons from Firefox that I miss quite a bit. ADBLOCK(!), Ubiquity, Web Developer, Firebug, heck, even the Delicious plug-in...
But I think it's great start for a first release. Hopefully they'll bang away at those bugs, improve the flash handling, and things will get to a more usable place.
Or even better, since it's open source, maybe we could see the best features get integrated right into Firefox?
Posted 3 years ago #
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