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Chrome Is Catching Firefox

Yessire, I'd like to see your screencaps that show me how to make a simple dropdown of bookmarks without using a plugin (like "smart bookmarks") and without having an entire new bar that goes from left to right added to the UI.

In Firefox I can just put every bookmark in "unsorted" and that nice little Star button on the far right drops everything down without adding a new bar to my UI. IE has the exact same thing.

Chrome can do something similar using the normal "tools" menu by hovering over the bookmarks area, but that's still an extra step.

I don't want the bookmarks bar UI - that's what you're missing. If the whole great thing about Chrome is the simple UI - I don't want that whole bar stretching across the screen - just a button.
 
Domingo said:
Yessire, I'd like to see your screencaps that show me how to make a simple dropdown of bookmarks without using a plugin (like "smart bookmarks") and without having an entire new bar that goes from left to right added to the UI.

In Firefox I can just put every bookmark in "unsorted" and that nice little Star button on the far right drops everything down without adding a new bar to my UI. IE has the exact same thing.

Chrome can do something similar using the normal "tools" menu by hovering over the bookmarks area, but that's still an extra step.

I don't want the bookmarks bar UI - that's what you're missing. If the whole great thing about Chrome is the simple UI - I don't want that whole bar stretching across the screen - just a button.
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Since you are familiar with firefox already, I don't imagine I need to screencap it. Here is Chrome with no bookmarks toolbar like you hate.



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Any further arguments?
 
That's exactly what I was talking about in the tools menu having an extra step.
I shouldn't need to have to use a 2-tier tree system to get to something I use every minute or two. You have to click the button, go down to the Bookmarks entry, wait for the hover effect for your list to populate, and then scroll down to your bookmarks. It's an added unnecessary step and IMO a step backwards in UI.
The entire reason they force you to do this is so you'll use "Google Bookmarks" instead.
 
Domingo said:
That's exactly what I was talking about in the tools menu having an extra step.
I shouldn't need to have to use a 2-tier tree system to get to something I use every minute or two. You have to click the button, go down to the Bookmarks entry, wait for the hover effect for your list to populate, and then scroll down to your bookmarks. It's an added unnecessary step and IMO a step backwards in UI.
The entire reason they force you to do this is so you'll use "Google Bookmarks" instead.
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What on earth are you talking about? Firefox is the Exact same 2 step unless you use the toolbar. Then and only then is it a single click to your bookmarks.



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On Firefox, uncheck "Bookmarks Toolbar" and instead choose to display "Bookmarks" as a button.
Now there's a small button that you can move anywhere you want that displays your bookmarks in 1 click. No hovering, waiting, or cluttered extra bar needed.
It's essentially just like the "Star" Favorites menu in IE9, only it's better because you can move it wherever you want.
 
Fair enough, I wasn't aware it did that. Still that is unbelievably anal.

Personally I find the bookmarks bar the best option for me on both browsers as I have 5 websites that I constantly go too. If I use the button then it is 2 clicks for everything I do vs 1. Even with the bar the ui is far from cluttered. Now if I had more than say 10 websites that I visited multiple times a day, then sure I can see the bar being a bad option.
 
At work I have about 50 (including [H]) so irks me to no end. There are some Chrome plug-ins that provide something similar, but they're all a little wonky. Most tend to actually use the bookmarks manager, which means that your zoom settings totally throw them off.

I have to keep 6-7 browsers on my machine to test for compatibility and I honestly like IE9 pretty well as far as the UI goes. I just hate all of that ActiveX nonsense. If MS would ever drop it, I'd happily go back to IE as a primary.
 
Domingo said:
At work I have about 50 (including [H]) so irks me to no end. There are some Chrome plug-ins that provide something similar, but they're all a little wonky. Most tend to actually use the bookmarks manager, which means that your zoom settings totally throw them off.

I have to keep 6-7 browsers on my machine to test for compatibility and I honestly like IE9 pretty well as far as the UI goes. I just hate all of that ActiveX nonsense. If MS would ever drop it, I'd happily go back to IE as a primary.
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IE, seriously... that's all I needed to hear out of you. :rolleyes:
You like IE, but you're so anal about FF and Chrome because of one extra step, even though IE has many, you won't use them.

Still that is unbelievably anal.
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Yes, yes he is. :D
 
Catching, and passing soon. I dropped FF about 3 months ago and haven't looked back. Chrome is much smoother for me.
 
You ever use IE9? It's not that bad. This isn't IE6-8.

For day to day usage, IE doesn't have any extra steps. I saves things where I want, it has 1-click bookmarks, it has a quicker start-up time than Firefox, and I can enable/disable plug-ins quickly. It also has a nice built-in zoom that can be set to any level I want and a really nice contextual menu when you right click a page. All in a pretty clean overall interface without trying to cram 18 menus into every button. It also has the address bar search just like Chrome does.

IE9 adds absolutely no extra steps for anything I do except when ActiveX is brought into the mix. That's the one issue I have with it. If IE skipped ActiveX, it would essentially work more or less just like the other browsers. MS will never stand for that, though...hence it's Firefox for me most of the time.
 
Domingo said:
You ever use IE9? It's not that bad. This isn't IE6-8.

For day to day usage, IE doesn't have any extra steps. I saves things where I want, it has 1-click bookmarks, it has a quicker start-up time than Firefox, and I can enable/disable plug-ins quickly. It also has a nice built-in zoom that can be set to any level I want and a really nice contextual menu when you right click a page. All in a pretty clean overall interface without trying to cram 18 menus into every button. It also has the address bar search just like Chrome does.

IE9 adds absolutely no extra steps for anything I do except when ActiveX is brought into the mix. That's the one issue I have with it. If IE skipped ActiveX, it would essentially work more or less just like the other browsers. MS will never stand for that, though...hence it's Firefox for me most of the time.
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HAHAHAHAHA
That's a good one man! :p

Honestly, if you like it, use it. ;)
 
Used FF for about 3-4yrs and recently tried Chrome and made a switch in 5min.

The FF is indeed an annoying browser. Somewhat got bulky, constant updates popping up, and doesn't look as clean as Chrome.
 
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I use both honestly.

Chrome for general web browsing/forums and Firefox for media consumption.
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Funny you say that. I use it for the exact opposite. For some reason I have much smoother video playback with Chrome.
It's also hard for me to switch permanently, I'm so used to Firefox and have it setup "my way".
 
I finally made the switch to Chrome and like it best of all the major browsers. It feels faster and far less "clunky" than FF. I prefer Chrome's sleeker look, too.
 
Chrome is faster at starting up on my laptop. I tried it out a year ago, and have kept it on my lap ever since.

Firefox is just a norm though, I don't think I will make the permanent switch ever, I have used FF for too long and it is customized for me.


But I will say they are both great browsers, and Chrome is faster(for me)
 
I can't go on either Yahoo or Costco without getting a page full of Unicode characters. I have to refresh in order to make the page show up, and sometimes I get a crash, or sometimes I get lucky.

I used to use Firefox until yesterday, and I really like Chrome's speed, but this is a serious issue and I can't see myself using it long like this. I also agree with Domingo, I would really like a standalone bookmarks button that does not necessitate another extra bar being added. It's not a very big deal on a nice big screen but on a 1366 laptop you need every horizontal pixel you can get.
 
At the risk of getting flamed, I like IE9 a lot as well. I think its a great browser.

I switch back and forth between the main 3 all the time basically because I get bored with the same stuff after a while and like a change. Its the same reason I go between my Logitech G510 and G9 setup to my Razer Black Widow and Deathadder combo every few weeks.

I do think Chrome is a lot snappier feeling than Firefox. Firefox lately has lost its "smoothness" I guess you could call it, at least to me. I still use it from time to time because I love the Lava Fox theme, but I never seem to stay on it too long before Im back to Chrome or IE9.
 
I like IE9 as well. It doesn't matter though. Most browsers are very similar to each other these days.
 
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