Poll
Question:
Well?
Option 1: Yes
votes: 5
Option 2: No
votes: 23
Similar to M's question about Bing. I saw that many on p'dox OT were loving it and I wondered if anyone here uses it regularly.
I use it but only rarely.
Yes for the same reason I use bing. I'm in web development so I use multiple browsers regularly.
I find Chrome to be all right but every once in awhile I find it fails on a random script or when accessing ssl.
Quote from: garbon on August 18, 2009, 05:46:30 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 18, 2009, 05:45:45 PM
I use it but only rarely.
When/why do you use it?
When I want to follow a link to amazon to check something out but I don't want to have them start recommending me that shit. Like if somebody posts a link to Twilight. :lol:
Edit: But like PRC, I have some web-based apps in the environment I support and I use it for testing them.
:lol:
Using it to view this website.
I just installed Chrome and it grabbed up all of my Firefox settings! :o
No, but I might consider it if it has Adblock, Flashblock, and Last Pass type add-ons.
I don't think I like not having the standard file-edit-help bar along the top. It feels so un-windows like.
No OS X version, so no.
It's not out for Mac yet. :mad:
It sneak installed itself onto my desktop with google earth and you know...it does seem rather nice. Very shiny and somehow spacious. I've only ever used it as a secondary browser, never attempted to run my life on it.
I've heard tales of spyware and other nastyness though which is offputting.
I tried it some time ago, wasn't that awed. I stopped using it completely once I heard the rumors about the typical Google privacy BS.
Yeah that reminds me again of why I didn't end up using it.
No. Looked at it but the plugin selection seemed crappy, and I use a lot of plugins in Firefox. Maybe this will, or has, changed.
Don't really see a point in trying it again given the absolutely massive number of plugins in Firefox for any almost any purpose.
No.
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on August 18, 2009, 06:40:06 PM
No. Looked at it but the plugin selection seemed crappy, and I use a lot of plugins in Firefox. Maybe this will, or has, changed.
Don't really see a point in trying it again given the absolutely massive number of plugins in Firefox for any almost any purpose.
What firefox plugins do you use?
Quote from: garbon on August 18, 2009, 06:53:27 PM
What firefox plugins do you use?
right now am using
Adblock Plus
BugMeNot
Download Statusbar
Download Helper
FireGestures
FlagFox
ForecastFox
FoxyProxy
Google Toolbar
Hotspot Shield Toolbar
Orange Dictionary
PDF Download
Tab Kit
Don't even know what it is.
I had a '70 Dodge that had a lot of chrome on it.....
:D
Tried out Chrome, wasn't thrilled- reminded me of the crappy "homebrew" IE variants that kept surfacing around the era of Netscape Navigator. Customizability is piss-poor at best, and flashy graphic icons take up UI and system resource space that could be better used for meaningful information. Google's "c'est la vie" attitude toward closing off user access to settings that could be used to optimize connection and display was also pretty off-putting; it put me in mind of IE's stubborn refusal to implement even basic HTTP pipelining and conform to the HTTP/2.0 standard, even though many browsers enable it by default nowadays.
tried chrome, it was better than explorer, but I have misgivings about googlecorp, so based on recs by languish Firefox fans, I switched to FF, and I am quite happy.
Quote from: saskganesh on August 18, 2009, 09:47:32 PM
tried chrome, it was better than explorer, but I have misgivings about googlecorp, so based on recs by languish Firefox fans, I switched to FF, and I am quite happy.
Try Safari. :)
Quote from: PRC on August 18, 2009, 05:46:22 PM
Yes for the same reason I use bing. I'm in web development so I use multiple browsers regularly.
I find Chrome to be all right but every once in awhile I find it fails on a random script or when accessing ssl.
Cross-browser compatibility: web dev holy grail :cry:
Quote from: citizen k on August 18, 2009, 09:57:30 PM
Cross-browser compatibility: web dev holy grail :cry:
Look to the browsers for that. IE, for example, refuses to adhere to HTTP standards and also strongly encourages ActiveX controls (which no other browser uses).
In related veins, security or other closed-source algorithms might vary between platforms, making interoperability impossible without loads of bloated code.
Quote from: Barrister on August 18, 2009, 09:55:36 PM
Quote from: saskganesh on August 18, 2009, 09:47:32 PM
tried chrome, it was better than explorer, but I have misgivings about googlecorp, so based on recs by languish Firefox fans, I switched to FF, and I am quite happy.
Try Safari. :)
when I use Macs, I use the default Safari, but I am not switching to Macs anytime soon. they perplex me more than they should... I have to reboot them more than I expect.
I use Mozilla Firefox v3 on my XP partition, and Safari on my Mac. I'm thinking of switching to Firefox for the Mac, too, since Safari's advantages (the Top Sites feature, which was totally stolen from Opera) over Firefox are minor compared to FF's over Safari (adBlock add-on, and FF's ability to let me type phrases into the address bar to search my history, so I could type "off the Record" then pick Languish.org, for example).
Firefox kicks ass with its huge library of supported (and regularly updated) add-ons- most notably the NoScript extension.
google apps creep me out. why do I want to do all my computing on one site. fuck off.
Quote from: saskganesh on August 18, 2009, 10:42:23 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 18, 2009, 09:55:36 PM
Quote from: saskganesh on August 18, 2009, 09:47:32 PM
tried chrome, it was better than explorer, but I have misgivings about googlecorp, so based on recs by languish Firefox fans, I switched to FF, and I am quite happy.
Try Safari. :)
Use Safari for Windows then. :)
when I use Macs, I use the default Safari, but I am not switching to Macs anytime soon. they perplex me more than they should... I have to reboot them more than I expect.
No, mainly because of the spyware BS. I considered trying a non-spyware version, but haven't so far.
It doesn't seem to offer anything that Firefox doesn't. So why bother switching.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 19, 2009, 06:05:17 AM
It doesn't seem to offer anything that Firefox doesn't. So why bother switching.
The only useful feature I've seen in any browser that isn't in Firefox is Opera's client identification options, which can spoof IE and Firefox to a web server; useful for navigating sites that scream, "YOU'RE NOT USING IE USE IE TO VIEW THIS SITE" because they track their info through ActiveX.
Nope.