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I feel sorry for you, but glad in a way that if I were a software developer I could get you to buy my product based on syntethic benchmarksit makes me a bit sad but chrome has fully replaced firefox on my desktop, and in my heart.
it makes me a bit sad but chrome has fully replaced firefox on my desktop, and in my heart.
And it would've for me too, if it weren't made by Google.
Sunspider/Javascript crap means nothing to me - all of them get the damned test done in less than one second so the excessive focus on that shit drives me insane, it's simply irrelevant.
I happily don't have a browser replaced by any. I run firstly, Firefox, secondly Chrome and third IE. Depending on what i'm doing, what application I'm running, etc. I also have Safari and opera installed, but don't really ever touch those. Sometimes I may test a website in them when helping somebody.
But the quick breakdown would be 60/30/9/1 - Firefox/Chrome/IE/Safari-Opera-Other (estimated percentage of use)
SHHHH! That's almost blasphemy your speaking. [H] is ruled by Chrome because it's noticeably faster.Thank you!! I am so fucking glad someone else sees this. Listening to browser fanboys rant on about how their browser of choice is "faster" is a joke. I mean we're talking milliseconds here. No one is going to be able to tell a difference.
Do you know how to make the extensions work with this new version? None of my add-ons work.
Here is a link to the only way I found to enable addons in the Firefox 4 beta.
http://www.techexplorer.in/2010/07/how-to-enable-all-addons-in-firefox-4-beta.html
Note I couldn't find any that I use that work. I use speeddial, xmarks, and fireguestures. Yea, Opera user at heart.
Excellent. Please keep us updated if anything changes on your browser usage.
Thank you!! I am so fucking glad someone else sees this. Listening to browser fanboys rant on about how their browser of choice is "faster" is a joke. I mean we're talking milliseconds here. No one is going to be able to tell a difference
I use a pretty slow browser (Firefox) on a fast computer and I can certainly tell the difference subjectively when using Chrome. I'm sure it's even more substantial and obvious on a slower machine. It's just not worth it to sacrifice the functionality. Performance matters, and it matters more now that some serious processing happens in the browser.
Yes the microbenchmarks show a pretty small scale difference, but I do feel it's noticeable. IE definitely feels slow even though we're only talking milliseconds. Ditto for Chrome feeling fast.
The placebo effect, hard at work I see.
If you want all the advantages of Chrome but without having Google keeping tabs on you, try SRWare Iron. It's built of off Chromium, but has all the features that report back to Google disabled. Any add-on for Chrome will work on it too, and you can get a feature that I can't quite mention without breaking forum rules.
Im not sure if this will work, but if you want to try it here is FireGuestures that I reworked. All I did was change the install.rdf max version. If it works let me know and ill try the other ones.
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Tried it. Didnt work. Sorry.
The placebo effect, hard at work I see. Firefox is probably the slowest of the browsers (save for IE) and even then it's still very damn fast. Again, milliseconds.
Ok, I don't like it. The change in the Add-ons manager is just irking the fuck right outta me.
I'm liking most of this Beta 1, but stability isn't here yet. Going back to the last stable release.
The add-ons manager change was the greatest thing I've seen so far. So much better than the old, separate window.
It freezes, even without Flash or any other add ons. I'm going to try Beta 2 later today.Does it crash often?
What is the problem?
I don't think each tab is an independent process, but each instance of a plugin runs in a separate process now. So buggy plugins can't (theoretically) crash the browser anymore, and your performance concerns should be improved as well.1. Does it seperate tabs and windows as new processes so that if I am playing a flash game on one window it wont destroy the performance of the other (Firefox 3.6 sure does).
I can't stand smooth scroll and always turn it off, so no comment.2. Have they improved their absolutely TERRIBLE smoothscroll?
Have they improved their absolutely TERRIBLE smoothscroll?