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Dusty

posted on 29/4/10 at 01:59 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 02:01 PM Reply With Quote
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.





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coozer

posted on 29/4/10 at 02:02 PM Reply With Quote
I use Firefox and its faster than IE both at home and here at work...





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sprouts-car

posted on 29/4/10 at 02:06 PM Reply With Quote
Another vote for chrome. I didn't like the 'feel' at first, but now i wouldn't go back.
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prawnabie

posted on 29/4/10 at 02:06 PM Reply With Quote
I use safari - much better than anything else I have used
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britishtrident

posted on 29/4/10 at 02:10 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 02:16 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 02:39 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 02:42 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 03:05 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 03:07 PM Reply With Quote
Firefox here
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britishtrident

posted on 29/4/10 at 04:47 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 04:50 PM Reply With Quote
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!


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carpmart

posted on 29/4/10 at 05:26 PM Reply With Quote
I'm a chrome user now! Very good indeed!





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PSpirine

posted on 29/4/10 at 05:40 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 06:19 PM Reply With Quote
firefox every time
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scudderfish

posted on 29/4/10 at 06:23 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 06:33 PM Reply With Quote
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.


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Xtreme Kermit

posted on 29/4/10 at 06:34 PM Reply With Quote
Firefox first, chrome second, IE only when at work and there is no other choice.
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40inches

posted on 29/4/10 at 09:03 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 29/4/10 at 09:26 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 30/4/10 at 10:18 AM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 30/4/10 at 03:28 PM Reply With Quote
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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