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- splinter09, on 02/27/2009, -10/+8211 - Download FireFox 3
- RobLikesBRunch, on 02/27/2009, -4/+51Alternatively...you know...you could just use Firefox.
- meruru, on 02/27/2009, -7/+45So the way to improve a browser that's mission is to be bloat free is to add a bunch of bloat?
- Morghin, on 02/27/2009, -4/+41"Missing Firefox's mouse gestures?" - I know he's deriving it off of Firefox, but this made me chuckle a bit, seeing as it's originally from Opera.
- inactive, on 02/27/2009, -0/+29If it said "how to make chrome better than firefox" maybe I'd be interested. Why would I need to get something new and then make it as good as something I already have?
- Niubai, on 02/27/2009, -2/+28Chrome is great, we just need firebug. And please, quit the fanboyism (both from Firefox and Chrome), you don't need to defend your choice. Just use the browser you like more, both are great.
- Anand999, on 02/27/2009, -2/+27Adding in features you want to use isn't bloat. Bloat is having tons of features you don't use but still have to pay for (in money, disk space, menu clutter, performance, etc.).
Starting off with a bare bones browser and then selectively adding in only those features you really want seems like a good idea to me. - Ghoztt, on 02/27/2009, -4/+19Better... but where is my NoScript? Where is my FireFTP? Where is my Web Developer?
Any Google employees listening? NOT GOOD ENOUGH. - Hybred1234, on 02/27/2009, -1/+14Because fanboys are morons.
- tjex, on 02/27/2009, -1/+12WTF google, you serious? "Each installation of Google Chrome has a unique identifier"
I'm going back to Opera/Firefox/Safari (and waiting for someone to point that they all do this as well! sigh) - SneakyNinja, on 02/27/2009, -1/+11No matter arguing guys. Apple (via Safari) has plans to take credit for all of the things on that list. :)
- krystalo, on 02/27/2009, -3/+12Where's the "buried for being crap" button?
- andy2na, on 02/27/2009, -0/+9that guide sucked
- Shuk, on 02/27/2009, -0/+8Adblock (built into the browser). That's all it takes to get me to switch.
- twiztidsinz, on 02/27/2009, -0/+7You should also take your doors off your car...
I mean they just get in the way, you have to keep opening and closing them when getting in and out of you car and they add weight to your vehicle sucking up precious gas.
Seats too! Who needs 'em? They're just an unnecessary frill, right? - Rivetgeek, on 02/27/2009, -0/+7You're an idiot. I had a long winded, witty diatribe all prepared for you; it was designed specifically to point out in no uncertain terms, just how very wrong you are. But ***** it, you're just an idiot.
- WibWobble, on 02/27/2009, -3/+9Really stupid article. IMO Chrome is well under-finished and wont be as good as FF for a while. I wouldn't mind using Chrome is it was "the best browser" - but it isn't!
Fanboys, stop obsessing over everything Google and accept there are alternatives. - kd420, on 02/27/2009, -4/+10Because it's faster. As far as I have seen WebKit > Gecko
- inactive, on 02/27/2009, -0/+6chrome is missing three very important things:
- adblock (the ease of having that functionality built into the browser is preferred over using a third party application)
- firebug (what's built into chrome is not even close to being as good as firebug)
- flashget / other mass-download manager of your choice - flintmecha, on 02/27/2009, -0/+5Inaccurate. No combination of any of those tasks will make Chrome "as good as" Firefox.
- 1ofMany, on 02/27/2009, -1/+5I find Chrome's simplicity very refreshing but I still use Firefox because of Adblock. I've set up Privoxy to deal with ads in Chrome and although it works, it's unsightly to the point that I find the Ad's themselves to be less distracting.
- Rivetgeek, on 02/27/2009, -0/+4IM guessing you don't make your living as a developer. Trust me, I'd have killed myself without firebug. Mostly thanks to Microsoft's insistence to ignore CSS standards.
- LiquidSpark, on 02/27/2009, -1/+5Seriously. 10 steps to make it almost as good, but not quite. I think I'll pass.
- wmarcello, on 02/27/2009, -1/+5Since discovering FireFTP a couple years ago I've yet to install another FTP client. Simple and to the point, and that's all I'm ever looking for. So many of the ones I ended up installing before were either ugly, bloated, or trialware.
- lynx44, on 02/27/2009, -0/+4I do like FireFTP, but if you ever need a free Windows client, WinSCP is fantastic. I use it because when I last tried FireFTP, it didn't support SFTP and I've never had the urge to go back.
- nimawin, on 02/27/2009, -1/+5actually, that shouldn't be step 11. should be step one.
- NobodyWhoCares, on 02/27/2009, -1/+5Exactly, and that's what kills it for me. Tried it, and I do like it's performance. Snappy little browser for sure. But without NoScript and AdBlock, no thanks. With those, I get no popups, no mouseover nonsense, nothing. Zero ads. Firefox isn't the best browser when it comes to speed, but that's what keeps me with it. When they add the ability for user created addons I'll give it another spin.
- sailorj, on 02/27/2009, -0/+4Apple and Google are obviously working together to get that particular web-platform to be the dominate browser. I point to a few reasons for this:
1. iPhone & Android use this same technology for Mobile Computing.
2. Reduce Microsoft Market Share by divide and conquor. You get two options on a PC. No rush to push anything for the Mac, isn't that odd, especially since tech savvy people can build it themselves for their Mac.
3. Apple prominately places a Google Search bar on Safari, and Google uses Apples WebKit.
Doesn't hurt that a Google Exec, sits on Apple's board either, huh? - inactive, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4Safari 4 is nice. It has a lot of good benefits, and it's really fast.
All it needs is a nice adblock to compete with these big boys. - lucfreder, on 02/27/2009, -0/+3yeah but why? my firefox is already as good as firefox
- MtheoryX, on 02/27/2009, -0/+3The more browsers, the merrier, I say.
Competition propels innovation. No competition is exactly why dev's are in this web hell with IE. - inactive, on 02/27/2009, -3/+6It's originally from Myth.
- Morwynd, on 02/27/2009, -4/+7I just knew there'd be some knee-jerk "OMGZ THINK OF THE BLOAT!" post.
If you actually read the article, you'd see these are all bookmarklets or external tools. Chrome itself is not modified by any of these. - tspellman, on 02/27/2009, -1/+4I suggest a different list of three things that are very important to me:
1. Security - integrated password management
2. Security - block third-party cookies
3. Security - block JavaScript (like NoScript does)
And I couldn't agree more about adblock. - watcht, on 02/27/2009, -0/+3Obviously you haven't found the easy to use add-ons button on firefox that's been there for ages. Installation is quick and painless, and configuration is often unnecessary outta the box for most add-ons. Try em out before you bash.
- 1ofMany, on 02/27/2009, -0/+3But then there's Adblock....
- TruthKid, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2I have Chrome and Firefox, love them both, but generally I use Chrome because its light, starts faster then firefox, and the omnibar at the top is outstanding. If someone can point me in the direction to combine the address bar and search bar in firefox then I'd go back to FF and tweak it to be as minimalistic as chrome.
Edit: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/882 ...
Back to firefox I go - Yage2006, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2Until there are plugins like adblock,NoScript,Piclens and Stylish or grease moneky Its dead to me.
- MtheoryX, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2A browser was for browsing 5 or 10 years ago.
A browser is a true platform now. - watcht, on 02/27/2009, -1/+3SFware Iron browser, and the adblock script, rinse and repeat with each update.
- KibibyteBrain, on 02/27/2009, -2/+4It will still be bloat free if they don't overwrite the extensibility infrastructure. Adding a feature is only a couple lines of code in memory. So as long as you keep features you add so they don't require compromise on the performance of the backend stuff from overly complex backend code(see Firefox), you won't suffer too much performance pain. This is why Opera has has many features as Firefox 3 + a few extensions, but doesn't feel the burden of all the crud Firefox has to do to support those features vs. a few extra lines of C++.
- tbb73, on 02/27/2009, -1/+3They can't even use the OS Window Manager. Until they give me that I'll never use this crap!
- inactive, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2Doesn't have Adblock Plus.
Doesn't have a linux version either...
No thanks. - avianna, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2Firebug! No web developer is going to switch to chrome without firebug.
- FreddieD, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2I'll settle for real del.icio.us addon integration. And no, this bookmarklet workaround is not acceptable.
- jankind, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2No Firebug? No thanks.
- wmarcello, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the one I finally did settle on when I was using dedicated clients. If I needed to ftp every day then I may have continued to use it, but for occasional lightweight use, FireFTP does the trick.
- dtfinch, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2They still haven't fixed middle click scrolling performance. It redraws the entire page every frame, making it a lot jerkier than scrolling with the scrollbar.
I think the developers' workstations are just too fast for them to notice/care, which is deadly to any project where performance is a stated goal. - Kadellyman, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2Firefox is the way to go! The Google monster already has it's teeth into enough cookies in the proverbial jar. Firefox is a good product and I'm going to stand by it!
- Rivetgeek, on 02/27/2009, -0/+2why get it built in when you can have competition and download your own filters/engines from various providers.
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