Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users?

What browser do you use?

  • IE

    Votes: 36 6.8%

  • Chrome

    Votes: 195 37.0%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 272 51.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 24 4.6%
  • Total voters
    527
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The fellas at LifeHacker have posted and article on why they believe Chrome is overtaking Firefox among power users. What about you? Do you use Chrome, Firefox or IE?

Firefox has long been the go-to web browser among power users for its impressive feature set, extensibility, and openness. But Google's nimble, light, also extensible and open browser, Chrome, has won over Firefox's core user base.
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I mostly use firefox (the beta), but I use IE alot too because there are alot of sites that just don't work correctly with firefox/chrome.
 
I use firefox on most pcs I have. I installed chrome on my wife's netbook and my mom's desktop as both are low on memory.

I only use IE if I must.
 
Firefox all the way ... for addons like adblock - noscript - xmarks etc.
 
I'm still using Firefox.

I've tried Chrome a few times. Nothing wrong with it, but there's nothing wrong with Firefox either.
 
Ditched firefox a while back... been using chrome pretty much exclusively.
 
I really wanted to continue using Firefox, but I had to switch after being hit by a few drive-by malware attacks from simply looking at random pages on Google images.
 
I always end up going back to Firefox (I have Opera and Chrome installed too) because of a combination of factors:

Tree Style Tabs - On a widescreen monitor it's best to put tabs on the side
Noscript - Self explanatory
AwesomeBar - Despite the presumptuous name, it does in fact work better than the offerings from the competitors.
 
IE at work (no other option), Chrome at home. Used to be a die-hard Firefox user, but no more. Don't even have it installed on my new laptop. Had used Firefox from release 0.1 through all the name changes :)
 
I only use Firefox. If Mozilla somehow imploded I'd switch to IE.

I block many Google domains on my machine. The internet tapeworm doesn't need any more of my information.
 
Chrome all the way. It's faster, its smarter and it doesn't have sex with our women.
 
Can you believe a Google Chrome Traybar Popup appeared while I was reading this.

There's a new version of Google Chrome.
Options:
Try it(already installed)
uninstall Chrome

Buttons:
Ok, Don't Bug me.
 
I like Chrome, its very fast and responsive. Unfortunately, as long as I can't get the add-ons I use for Firefox (NoScript, Tabs Mix Plus, and DownloadHelper) on Chrome, I'll continue to use Firefox.
 
I use IE. My main reasons are:

1. Built into Windows. No installation necessary.
2. The time it takes from clicking the icon to the browser loading is faster. IE9 seems to have great render speed too.
3. Pretty much every website is tested for IE due to the large marketshare.
4. Patch cycle. While there are always exploits, Microsoft is very good about timely patches.
5. 64-bit version pre-installed with the OS.


If I were to use anything else, it would probably be Opera.
 
Chrome looks nice but as other people have said, unless all the add-ons for firefox move to chrome I won't use it as my main browser. Chrome is like Opera to me, it's good but why would I even consider a switch when functionality I expect is missing?
 
I gave Chrome a one month try last September. One year later I am still using it. What few add ons that I used in FF are available in Chrome. I have only one website that only works in IE so I use the IE add on for Chrome.
 
Firefox + NoScript + AdAware = The bomb

For those of you using IE on windows without NoScript....sorry to hear that.
 
for the most part at home, I use Firefox. I used Chrome for a while, but found it to be very unstable on my laptop I use right now for college.
 
I've been using Chrome since it came out and I love it. It's fast, simplistic, stable and it has a very good user interface.

I'm a power user and I use Chrome-only functionality (like the Ominbox, keyboard shortcuts) to the max. I couldn't use Firefox the same way. The two browsers are comparable only for casual surfing.

I do things like Ctrl+T, 'g', Enter to go to gmail.com, or 'en' then Tab to search Wikipedia, 'y' and Tab to search youtube.

It takes me about 4-5 keystokes on average to go to any of my most frequently visited sites. It's amazing.
 
Chrome isn't a bad browser, but I really don't see most 'power users' going to it over Firefox for the plugins alone.

As others have said, Firefox + NoScript is pretty much the best internet security you can get... neither MS nor Google can compete with that.
 
I tried Chrome when it was first in beta and wasn't very impressed.

Firefox started to seem slow to me on many of the sites I would visit so I gave Chrome a re-try now that it is in stable release and I haven't looked back. My wife plays a lot of Facebook games and when I had her try Chrome on her laptop she loved it because the performance was much better. I do miss NoScript (omg the most updated application ever) and adblock, but it's just not worth it to me to go back.
 
dr.stevil said:
As others have said, Firefox + NoScript is pretty much the best internet security you can get... neither MS nor Google can compete with that.
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What is this internet security concept you're talking about? (I'm serious, can you please explain what you mean)
 
FF with all the gubbins (I hope you all disable ad-block on [H]).

Chrome feels fast and I'm sure it is aswell, but it has that over engineered feel about it.

I guess power users like it as they *have* to hack it to get some common features.
e.g. - Having to enter "--bookmark-menu" in the Target field to get your bookmarks to show (which doesn't work in v.6).

Sure can use the Wrench>Bookmark menu> opens another tab :/ - Please some one correct me
 
ex Firefox die hard that has switched to Chrome.
I utilize IE when necessary.
 
phide said:
Yeah, that's easily its best feature. I don't need to install anything to navigate to www.google.com/chrome. Awesome!
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Haha, so true.

I use IE to:
1. Download Chrome.
2. Print pages (it beats Chrome in this department with print preview and handling complex page printing)
3. An occasional site that requires IE
 
I use Chrome + adblock + flashblock + built in javacript blocking

Newer versions of Chrome allow for real javascript blocking with a good exception system as well as real ad blocking. If an ad isn't blocked by EasyList then just right click on the ad to add it to the filter.

Btw, Chromium 7 has greatly increased the rendering speed without GPU, and it is even faster with GPU compositing.
 
until chrome gets cookie management like FF, I can't change, Opera lacks this too.
 
Wife uses Firefox on her logins, I use Chrome except where I'm forced to use IE due to compatibility. Used to be a diehard Firefox user but Chrome is faster and has less issues for me.
 
Chrome is divine. Fast and clean... with what is in my opinion the best tab management around. That is a MUST with multi-monitor and dozens of tabs. I use Chrome on my desktop, laptop, work desktop, and family member's computers.

IE9's not bad... but we'll see how Chrome competes when it gets GPU acceleration.

Firefox is too cumbersome for me, after I started using Chrome. While developers have more control over Firefox, this is only good if the developer is very intelligent. This is not always the case.
 
shurcooL said:
It takes me about 4-5 keystokes on average to go to any of my most frequently visited sites. It's amazing.
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See this is what I don't understand. If this is a killer feature for you then Firefox's bar does a better job of it.

The problem with Chrome's bar is that you can't adjust it and it's not always deterministic what it decides to pop up for you.


Firefox's bar more consistent in the provided results and much more importantly, you can modify the listing! If you highlight a result that you don't want on the list, you can press [Delete] and remove it. If you use a result more often, it'll move up on the listing.

Furthermore, the bar consistently returns results for word fragments as well. For instance, simply typing "h" in the bar returns HardOCP for me because I come here so often. As soon as I type in "he" it'll go to "pad.helicoid.net" which is Helipad.

This is something Chrome, even as of version 6, cannot do consistently.
 
I just telnet to a domains port 80 and absorb the information and reassemble the site in my head like fucking neo from The Matrix. I'm all like:

Code: 
telnet www.hardforum.com 80

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: hardforum.com
User-Agent: 1337Browser/8.0
 
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