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[UltimaPooh]

Don't like chrome, gave it a chance but use Firefox and have done so for years now. Have Safari as well which I use exclusively for porn because no one in the house uses it so they'll never know.

Or just use incognito on Chrome.

 

[Sharp]

Or just use incognito on Chrome.

Both Firefox and Chrome have private browsing a.k.a. pr0n modes but I'm guessing a lot of people don't know about them.

 

[Xilium]

Does Chrome have an Adblock Plus equivalent? That and the download status bar are the primary reasons I still use Firefox.

 

[kehs]

Does Chrome have an Adblock Plus equivalent? That and the download status bar are the primary reasons I still use Firefox.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb

 

[likedamaster]

Chrome does everything I've always wanted in a browser, and does it fast. Chrome is king.

 

[dallow_bg]

Chrome finally took over Firefox for me with their major update. Love it.
Is there a good rss quick link for it yet? That's the only thing I'm missing. The one I have on Chrome now is kind of bootleg.

 

[Xilium]

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb

Reading the comments, it sounds as though there are still some bugs to be worked out (it is in beta). I'm in no rush to switch as I have no real issues Firefox. Thanks for the heads-up though.

 

[Horsemama1956]

Don't like Chrome at all. I don't really see what's so much better about it compared to Opera or newer versions of Firefox. I don't bother using extension or anything like that, so maybe that's the reason?

 

[Fernando Rocker]

Apparently most of you guys haven't tried Internet Explorer 9...

Way better than Chrome.

 

[Threi]

two things did it for me.

1. Chrome app shortcuts (people underestimate how freaking useful this is; try making a chrome app shortcut link of your gmail inbox or google docs/calendar, and pinning it to your taskbar)

2. Google Mail checker plus.

Built in flash and PDF viewers are just icing on the cake. In terms of resource usage, chrome does use a good bit of memory, but doesn't leak like firefox. Its very snappy on startup and shutdown, the way tabs are handled are extremely fluid.

I wish the startup page would let you manually add your top websites instead of relying on most used. I don't want to use the speeddial extension for that alone.

 

[Zeppu]

I like Google's place in the browser market because Google truly care about the web. They're constantly helping with HTML specs and pushing the limits of javascript and css, and that shows on their browser. Microsoft doesn't give a shit about the web. IE took ages to get <QUOTE> support out and just looking at any css or js out there on the internet, at some point you'll find '// IE Fix' written somewhere. Sure IE9 is kinda cool now, but they've been pushing propriety stuff out there for ages and ignoring the standards. They deserve what they got.

Chrome's genius is in the updating system. You never have to think about it, you're always up to date and none of your plugins stop working (some may need fixing). Firefox is great and all, and I used to love it, but this shit that every time I update I have to wait for updates to extensions which do a single task which has remained unchanged in all revisions of firefox (Linkification). Suuure you can unpack the file and modify the version, and about:config to ignore extension checks, but why should I? Chrome4life.

 

[Mechanical Snowman]

Way better than Chrome.

In what ways?

 

[Carbonox]

Chrome is teh sex.

People still use and, dare I say, love IE above the other browser options out there?

 

[Hayvic]

As long as there is need for hiding your porn URLs, there is a need for a second browser on my computer. For that reason only I shall always have IE installed.

 

[Cj70]

Ditched android for win phone 7 and couldn't be happier. Chrome is the only browser for me though, nowhere else feels like home.

 

[outunderthestars]

I for one welcome our Google overlords. Except with cellphones, Android sucks.

same boat here. sold my droid x after getting tired of it being a buggy mess. That said, I love chrome, and will jump on + as soon as I get a working invite.....

 

[Souldriver]

I'm just sad that I still haven't found a FF equivalent for the Chrome extension Google Quick Scroll and a good alternative for Hoover Zoom. Perhaps someone can help me?

 

[mckmas8808]

As long as there is need for hiding your porn URLs, there is a need for a second browser on my computer. For that reason only I shall always have IE installed.

What? Incognito mode?

 

[Treefingers]

How is IE9 in any way better than Chrome? lol. IE9 is total ass by comparison.

I use Safari at the moment which is great (on OS X of course), but I switch to Chrome every once in a while. Firefox is good on Windows, but I hate it on OS X, it just does not feel right at all.

The best thing about Chrome by far is the sync.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

As long as there is need for hiding your porn URLs, there is a need for a second browser on my computer. For that reason only I shall always have IE installed.

Get with the times, dude. CTRL+SHIFT+N (or CMND+SHIFT+N)

 

[Souldriver]

Guys, I think he's saying he wants to keep his porn URLs saved, even after he's ...uh...done.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Guys, I think he's saying he wants to keep his porn URLs saved, even after he's ...uh...done.

Ah. For me it's always the search that counts. Can't look at the same things twice.

 

[Buddha Beam]

I for one welcome our Google overlords. Except with cellphones, Android sucks.

Chrome sucks too, at least until theres an easier way to switch between search engines, it stops treating bookmarks so stupidly and it gives me a drop down of my most visited websites.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Chrome sucks too, at least until theres an easier way to switch between search engines, it stops treating bookmarks so stupidly and it gives me a drop down of my most visited websites.

It's kinda ridiculously easy to switch, edit, and use search engines.

Here's an extension for most visited sites: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/logbmehmiacemkimbpcbjgaikobdndah

And there are tons of extensions for bookmarks. I love them the way they are, so I hope they don't change it to custom-fit your specific needs because you happen to think it sucks.

 

[Sqrt_minus_one]

As long as there is need for hiding your porn URLs, there is a need for a second browser on my computer. For that reason only I shall always have IE installed.

Newer versions of Chrome have support for different profiles with a handy profile switcher @ the top. Does this solve your problem?

As to the guy who said IE9 is better than Chrome err no not at all, but to each his own.

 

[Zeppu]

They should all just be honest and call the private/incongnito mode 'Porn mode' and get it over with.

Also, if you forget to open the incognito window, you can erase history from last hour. Sure, sure, you'd be losing those other 57 minutes of legit history, but hey, at least no porn urls.

 

[Utako]

Our work PCs are finally getting updated to IE 8 here next week.

You too can have Chrome. Go here in IE:

http://www.google.com/chromeframe/eula.html?user=true

 

[nVidiot_Whore]

You too can have Chrome. Go here in IE:

http://www.google.com/chromeframe/eula.html?user=true

I can't even navigate to any URL containing the words google and chrome together from my work. And many people who can't install their own browsers also can't install any sort of plugins.

And even if you can get around it.. most people who have such restrictions risk losing their jobs by installing anything on their machines.

I'm a local admin on my machine.. which is rare for the organization I work for.. but despite that, I still can't install anything that isn't registered as a "standard" in my organization w/o requesting some sort of exception.

 

[gcubed]

I can't even navigate to any URL containing the words google and chrome together from my work. And many people who can't install their own browsers also can't install any sort of plugins.

And even if you can get around it.. most people who have such restrictions risk losing their jobs by installing anything on their machines.

I'm a local admin on my machine.. which is rare for the organization I work for.. but despite that, I still can't install anything that isn't registered as a "standard" in my organization w/o requesting some sort of exception.

Our company eased our browser restrictions around 2 years ago when some products we started using stopped working with shitastic IE6 and 7. Seems very arcane to be that locked down

 

[MrHicks]

I'm just sad that I still haven't found a FF equivalent for the Chrome extension Google Quick Scroll and a good alternative for Hoover Zoom. Perhaps someone can help me?

hover zoom ------------------------> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/thumbnail-zoom/

DO WANT google quick scroll for FF though
haven't found a FF equivalent yet nooooo

 

[btkadams]

i've been using ie6 with my job the past 2 months i've worked here. it has sucked. then a few days ago i complained to my coworker that google+ wouldn't work in ie6 and he looked at me dumbfounded as if i should have known i was allowed to install chrome. i feel like a tool for using such a crap browser for so long! current chrome compared to ie6 is like going from ps1 to ps3.

 

[nVidiot_Whore]

Our company eased our browser restrictions around 2 years ago when some products we started using stopped working with shitastic IE6 and 7. Seems very arcane to be that locked down

The problem is that it can also work the other way around. A lot of companies run internal web apps written long ago for the specific intricacies of earlier Internet Explorer browser versions. They don't necessarily even have anyone on staff capable of maintaining the code, which might have originally been written by outside consultants.

So upgrades are a large expense to a lot of companies. They have to be announced well ahead of time so that any team associated with any internal web app can begin testing on the new browser, etc. Some will have to hire expensive contractors just to upgrade the code.

The world of applications running inside of companies is very different from "the web" where people have the onus of programming for all popular browsers, and the late 90's/early 2000's boom of moving applications to the web unfortunately happened when some of the biggest asshole browsers ever were popular, leaving many companies stuck between a rock and a hard place.