Dusty
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 01:59 PM |
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Chrome, Firefox or what?
Is there some cunning plot by Google/Facebook etc to give preferential and faster response to their favoured browser. I recently downloaded Chrome and
seems very fast. Google searches seem to give instant download of results. Using Firefox searches on Google it still says 3 million results in .34
seconds but takes 10 seconds to show the first page of results. Daughter noticed facebook was very slow on firefox but instant on chrome.
Can they do this, give preference to their own browser?
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 02:01 PM |
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no its down to the way the programs display the webpages.
Google chrome is the fastest browser. It just handles the information it recieves much more efficiently and renders the page noticabley quicker.
Craig
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coozer
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 02:02 PM |
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I use Firefox and its faster than IE both at home and here at work...
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sprouts-car
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 02:06 PM |
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Another vote for chrome. I didn't like the 'feel' at first, but now i wouldn't go back.
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prawnabie
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 02:06 PM |
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I use safari - much better than anything else I have used
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britishtrident
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 02:10 PM |
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Some Firefox addons can slow things down a lot.
If you want a faster Firefox try adding FasterFox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14833
Also for linux users there is an optimised faster version of Firefox called SwitftFox
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BenB
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 02:16 PM |
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Chrome is quick but I personally don't like the way it renders web-pages. It's very picky and whenever I'm compatability testing the
website I'm building and there's a problem it's with blooming chrome....
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geeksandlies
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 02:39 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Chrome is quick but I personally don't like the way it renders web-pages. It's very picky and whenever I'm compatability testing the
website I'm building and there's a problem it's with blooming chrome....
Agreed, along with Safari!
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whitestu
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 02:42 PM |
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I gave up on all of the IE alternatives (never tried Safari, but I find Apple software generally to be terrible).
Only IE works properly.
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BenB
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 03:05 PM |
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Personally I just use firefox or firefox portable. I've got the others installed on my desktop but only for compatibility testing...
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40inches
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 03:07 PM |
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Firefox here
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britishtrident
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 04:47 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by whitestu
I gave up on all of the IE alternatives (never tried Safari, but I find Apple software generally to be terrible).
Only IE works properly.
For many years Microsoft have been trying to dictate web standards, It is pages written using Microsoft software and hosted on Microsoft servers
that doesn't meet recognised web standards.
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eddie99
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 04:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by geeksandlies
quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Chrome is quick but I personally don't like the way it renders web-pages. It's very picky and whenever I'm compatability testing the
website I'm building and there's a problem it's with blooming chrome....
Agreed, along with Safari!
+1
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carpmart
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 05:26 PM |
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I'm a chrome user now! Very good indeed!
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PSpirine
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 05:40 PM |
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Tried all of them.. I use firefox both in winblows and in Mac. Safari I've found has lots of compatibility issues for some reason. Chrome just
feels.. weird.
I.e. works well for what it's worth but is extremely prone to catching more random diseases than a cheap hooker.
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deltron63
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 06:19 PM |
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firefox every time
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scudderfish
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 06:23 PM |
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I picked up the Chrome habit at work primarily because it starts up so fast. I could open it up, check something out and shut it down in the time
Firefox took to get started. FF is very useful in my job (software dev) though for the plugins to play with data before it gets posted back to the
server.
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dhutch
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 06:33 PM |
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I use opera.
Chrome is nice, and i use it for natwest which has an epi-fit on opera, but its very resource heavy if you have more than a handfull of tabs open.
Daniel
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Xtreme Kermit
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 06:34 PM |
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Firefox first, chrome second, IE only when at work and there is no other choice.
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40inches
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 09:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Some Firefox addons can slow things down a lot.
If you want a faster Firefox try adding FasterFox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14833
Also for linux users there is an optimised faster version of Firefox called SwitftFox
Just tried it, much faster now 
Thanks for the heads up.
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yellow melos
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 09:26 PM |
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be warned about Chrome and firefox, they send lots of info about your browser habbits and machine info.. ip address ,location ..and a lot more.
the reason chrome is "currently" faster is because it caches a lot of info using the google servers.. same as AOL used to do
firefox also uses the part of the google system.
Personally i use opera and IE... personally i do not have any problems with IE
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britishtrident
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| posted on 30/4/10 at 10:18 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by yellow melos
be warned about Chrome and firefox, they send lots of info about your browser habbits and machine info.. ip address ,location ..and a lot more.
the reason chrome is "currently" faster is because it caches a lot of info using the google servers.. same as AOL used to do
firefox also uses the part of the google system.
Personally i use opera and IE... personally i do not have any problems with IE
Actually Opera is just a fancy front end to IE so you get all the non-nsecurity that comes with M$ software.
Unlike Opera and IE Firefox has nothing to hide the code is completely available for inspection.
Google and your ISP know your browsing habits anyway beware any search toolbars including any that came with your browser as any search through one
biases your search results more to site who pay Google or other search engines. If you are worried about somebody looking over your shoulder ate
your browsing habits the thing to be paranoid about are LSO/ Flash "super" cookies which are no problem to deal with in Mozilla.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 30/4/10 at 03:28 PM |
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My brother claims to still be using Netscape, and despite the support ending a few years ago it still runs really well. So he says... I use firefox
and yeah it's not amazing but then neither's my laptop...
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