Chrome vs Firefox Updated thoughts?

I used Chrome months ago, since then I haven't touched it... I have been using firefox exclusively for years. My brother keeps telling me there was some big update or something recently, can anyone prove some feedback on how it is now, or why I should use it instead? I really only care about what runs better, takes up less processing power, and doesn't leave programs running in the background or bloatware. I am looking for an over all very clean experience.

I've been using Firefox exclusively for years but I just switched to Chrome today. The biggest reason was Firefox's initial start-up took forever even with my SSD. I concluded the culprit was when I have Java installed it took Firefox a little longer to start for some reason. This was using Firefox 4 Beta.

Firefox is still very sluggish. Not so much in terms of actual web browsing but in initial start-up and in window resizing (which lags and stutters very badly). Not a deal-breaker, really, but Chrome runs more smoothly and has a cleaner UI, and those things matter to me. Chrome, however, generally consumes more memory.

If you want a "clean" experience, Chrome is likely the best option.

Only Google Chrome complaint so far is changing the size of everything with "Ctrl and +" it changes size too much.

Still using Firefox 3.6.13, will continue to do so for a long time to come.

I grab the Chrome nightly builds once a week to see how things are progressing, but... it's not really that much faster in my day-to-day experience, most web pages load equally in Firefox or Chrome (I honestly don't notice any difference, and I have FasterFox for telling me how long a page takes to load on Firefox).

I know that Firefox 4 is constantly improving during the beta testing period - the Javascript speed has dramatically come down (www.arewefastyet.com is their site for checking on their performance improvements), but as with Chrome, I simply don't like the new layout and the amount of work I'd have to put into redoing either of them to suit my needs just doesn't seem like it's worth the effort when what I've got does precisely how and what I need things to be done.

Newer ain't always better...

I use FF on my PC and Chrome on my laptops. I really don't have a preference that could swing me one way or the other. Chrome seems a bit smoother and quicker but I like FF features and options much better.

Firefox today is kind of like the originally Mozilla browser was years ago - bloated. The thinning out and performance improvement of the new browser, Firebird at the time, was why it took off. It's too bad that they've moved it towards its ancestor.

I'm working on transitioning to Chrome as Firefox has just gotten slower recently, even on a fresh install of Windows, and seems to crash too often now. I even get the Flash plugin crashing when I have over ~5 youtube videos caching at any one time, but this may be the plugin's fault more than FF.

Web browsing performance is similar, although Firefox uses a ton of my RAM and sometimes I get memory leaks that use up a couple gigabytes before I restart the browser. I never notice this at home though as I never use very much of the 8GB I have installed. Work on the other hand - 2GB of RAM with a slow hard drive, it's very noticeable. I also like the occasional times when Firefox locks up for minutes at a time, consuming one of my 3.8GHz CPU cores, for no apparent reason.

My vote is to move to Chrome today. It has plenty of plugins and seems to be light like Firebird/Firefox initially was.

Not this shit again.

They're both great browsers. Use whichever one fits you better. Saying one is "better" than the other is just retarded at this point, seeing as they both have so many similar features and do everything very well. It's like when idiots bring up how one is faster than the other. Faster? Yeah, maybe by a hundred milliseconds. Something nobody is going to ever notice, no matter how much fanboy is in them.

Jon55 said:

Not this shit again.

They're both great browsers. Use whichever one fits you better. Saying one is "better" than the other is just retarded at this point, seeing as they both have so many similar features and do everything very well. It's like when idiots bring up how one is faster than the other. Faster? Yeah, maybe by a hundred milliseconds. Something nobody is going to ever notice, no matter how much fanboy is in them.

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I don't think anybody notices how fast it is loading websites and etc. However, the time it takes the program to load, the time it takes to load new tabs, or how it handles multiple tabs is noticeable.

On websites that are very heavy in JavaScript and such, it's definitely noticeably faster than other browsers.