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Geek Culture / I've had it, Chrome is dead to me!

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Phaelax
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 03:41
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I'm going back to Opera. Chrome has crashed for the last time for me. Despite the fact that shockwave is very unstable with Chrome, the browser itself is no longer stable. This has been going on for awhile now with multiple versions and machines. What once had a great feature of only a single tab crashing, I have not seen that in many months. Now if anything crashes, every window goes with it. And restarting from where I left off when reopening? You can forget about that since the pages I had open won't even list in recently closed.

Opera never crashed on me, not to such a debilitating degree.

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Ortu
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 04:18
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I never got on board with chrome, Firefox has never steered me wrong

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Dar13
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 04:45
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I had the same problems, so I switched back to Firefox. Firefox 6+ is awesome, never had a single problem with it and it's just as fast as Chrome most of the time.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 04:56
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I uninstalled Firefox because it kept getting hijacked by random advertising sites. I don't even know how it happened as I usually use Opera unless a particular page isn't working on it. Opera is great, it's just frustrating that some sites refuse to work with it.

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 05:35
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Chrome all the way ftw! /troll


Interesting issues you're having! Come to think of it, I have had those, but Chrome has been the one browser I have preferred over any other. Also, curious, why Opera?

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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 06:33
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I have loved Chrome since the first time I saw it, pretty much - mainly because its a lot cleaniner in its looks than other browsers



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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 06:34
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Yeh, same here, Firefox seems fine but it's more complex than Chrome...

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Dar13
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 06:45
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Quote: "Yeh, same here, Firefox seems fine but it's more complex than Chrome..."

Really? I'd say FF is pretty similar to Chrome at this point.

Quick comparison screenshot attached(both are fully updated, Chrome at version 24 on the beta branch and FF at version 17.0.1).

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Phaelax
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 17:34
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Quote: "Also, curious, why Opera?"

Its what I was using before chrome came out because at that time FF was incredibly slow.

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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 18:34
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Quote: "Quick comparison screenshot attached(both are fully updated, Chrome at version 24 on the beta branch and FF at version 17.0.1)."

Chrome still looks a bit more clean and its got some thingies that I like more - not sure if firefox has it but, in chrome - i put something in the webb-bar-thingy at the top - and it googles it, unless its a webbpage

which i reallly like



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Dar13
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 18:51
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Firefox does that too. And I do see what you mean about Chrome being a bit cleaner, but they have to be different somehow.

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Chris Tate
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Firefox can be clean if you want it to be. But tends to have alot of toolbars activated by default. I wouldn't use any other browser for web development; its debug facilities are far superior and supports animated PNG files, which IE and Chrome do not.

Chrome eats up 1 GB of space on my hard drive, and I hardly use it; maybe once every two weeks to test some web-design compatibility.

One bad thing about Firefox is that eats up a huge amount of RAM.

The only Google desktop software I use is Earth and Picasa; I quite like Sketchup but have no need for it.

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Dar13
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 19:06
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Quote: "One bad thing about Firefox is that eats up a huge amount of RAM."

Really? The memory consumption for mine is only at 250MB for 7 tabs(was a quick test, have open two forum tabs, FB, Slashdot, a GIF, Twitter, Reddit). Chrome with roughly equivalent tabs is over 500MB.

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 20:00 Edited at: 15th Dec 2012 20:00
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Hmm, could be my system. It goes to about 400-500 mb when I browse for images or watch videos. The older versions of Firefox were a little more resource friendly.

Still the best IMO.

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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 20:20
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Quote: "Chrome eats up 1 GB of space on my hard drive, and I hardly use it; maybe once every two weeks to test some web-design compatibility."


O_o'



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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 20:56
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yes, really, but there's one great addon for that, i think it's called memory restart or firefox restart.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 15th Dec 2012 22:31 Edited at: 15th Dec 2012 22:39
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I've been having some issues with Chrome with the last few updates as well, but not quite as bad as people on here have had.

Sometimes it likes to all freeze at once, and for whatever reason, it only keeps half of my browsing history - I once was researching something important, and had forgotten to bookmark the page I found most useful. "No problem!", I thought to myself, "I'll just dig through the history until I find it!".

Well, it turned out Chrome only kept the original 3-4 pages I looked at before grouping everything together and/or completely eradicating the other 5+ pages I looked through. All it had was the original search, and 3-4 pages for the sites I looked at, and no matter how hard I tried to remember the name of the site, I didn't find it again until some more specific Googling.

Why does it only keep some of the history, and not all? I've never understood that. Firefox kept EVERYTHING.

EDIT: I just installed Firefox, and it's loading everything much faster... hmm. I may have to keep it.

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Posted: 16th Dec 2012 15:02
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For anyone that thinks Chrome is cleaner?
https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/fxchrome/?src=cb-dl-users

Go Firefox!

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Posted: 16th Dec 2012 15:36
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Quote: "I just installed Firefox, and it's loading everything much faster... hmm. I may have to keep it."


I remember doing this switching thing a while back. I would install another browser and, of course, the glitch that bothered me with the previous one was gone and it seemed faster. Then, before I knew it, there was a new glitch with this one. I like both Firefox and Chrome, but they both get tempermental at times. The only one one I've found to be not usable on a regular basis is IE. It's always sluggish.

Now I keep multiple browsers and when one gets quirky (which I think is inevitable) I switch to another or uninstall/reinstall the broken one. Seems like a normal thing now.

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Sergey K
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@ Phaelax: why wont you try Maxthon? im using this browser for more than 10 years, and im v. happy with it.

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Posted: 16th Dec 2012 16:33
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I was going to leap to Chrome's defense, but then it started chugging on YT windows and Flash stuff last night, ironically.

Running Opera now. Gotta admit, it feels a lot slicker. I mean, Chrome filled my Task Manager with about a dozen processes and hogged a lot of CPU for what it does.
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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 16th Dec 2012 19:20
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There's never going to be a perfect browser. They'll act up occasionally, and glitch out, and eventually get sluggish...

One way to prevent sluggishness is to not use a ton of addons (all I use are AdBlock and AVG SafeSearch), and always keep them updated as much as you can! Also, clear your history, cache and form data once or twice a month - it really does help!

I still have to say, Firefox is definitely much improved over the versions I was using before Chrome first came out. It's definitely faster than Chrome for me right now!

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Posted: 16th Dec 2012 20:31 Edited at: 16th Dec 2012 23:48
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I use IE10 on Windows 8 and Safari on Mac OS...probably just because I tend to like the "stock" experience. It matters more in Apple's world where everything is strongly tied together, but ever since IE9 came out I always felt like it 'fit' Windows (7) the best.

I liked Chrome a little when it first came out, back when it couldn't display half the web properly... but I've long since grown to dislike Google for a lot of other reasons. I've also never really been a fan of Chrome's UI, I'm not sure if it has gotten worse (in my opinion) or if I just remember it being nicer than it is now. But I do know plenty of people who love the design.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 16th Dec 2012 21:57
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Quote: "@ Phaelax: why wont you try Maxthon? im using this browser for more than 10 years, and im v. happy with it."

Because it's just a chinese version of IE.

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mr Handy
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I like IE, it crash only one tab, but rarely, and instantly reloads it.
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