Posted on 08/16/2012 10:05:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
I am thinking of switching from FF to Chrome. Is it faster? Easier to use? Same??........
Man, I think you've got some serious optimizations to do for both browsers, even on a ten year old machine.
I just timed FF startup with 11 tabs on a 1 GB machine. 12 seconds. This includes loading data over slow DSL (what isn't cached). My processor may be faster but not THAT much faster.
Trust me - your processor is way faster. My CPU is an AMD XP 2000, which is a Pentium 4 2Ghz equivalent. I also have Skype, Yahoo Messenger and Microsoft Security Essentials (for anti-virus stuff) installed. I suspect it would be a lot faster without Skype and Messenger installed, but I use those routinely. It used to be worse - McAfee used to bring the system to a halt, until I switched to the Microsoft antivirus.
Chrome is fast and stable. That said, it IS google, so I generally avoid.
For instance, I have a page which downloads orders from a store database and lets me browse them. Testing on yesterday's 1194 orders, Chrome loaded it up in 0.865 seconds, whereas Firefox needed 4.121. Ouch. Chrome took 0.357 seconds to re-sort the orders descending by net sale total vs 0.990 for Firefox. The page displays an unusually large amount of data. The height of the fully expanded content window (which is scrolled through a view port window with headings locked above) is 181,628 pixels, or about 149 feet at a typical dot pitch of 0.25 mm.
Chrome also provides better control over the browsing process. Each page is a separate process. It has a Task Manager window which lets you see which pages are causing CPU load and allows you to kill them. To paraphrase the next president, I like being able to kill processes which aren't giving me the service I need. It's a real kick to kill the Flash plugin and see CPU drop as frowny faces appear in all the Flash windows.
On the minus side, Chrome does use more memory for the same number of open windows. Of course, in Chrome closing a tab seems to free its memory more reliably than on Firefox. Firefox used to have a really serious memory leak problem. RAM usage would just grow and grow until, when it got up to 1.5 gig or so, I'd have to kill the process and wait several seconds while the dozens of threads wound down. However, in recent releases, that bug seems to have been solved.
Since I am a paranoid when it comes to Internet stuff, I will avoid it as well. So far, FF has never let me down.........
My kids still use 1.8 Ghz Pentium 4 laptops. The even older laptop I talked about earlier is a 400 Mhz Celeron (crippled Pentium 2). But even that starts FF is less than a minute with two or three tabs.
There are actually two Chromes: the one from Google and the open-source one from the Chromium Project.
 Chrome |
 Chromium Browser |
The Chromium Browser link above explains the differences (what Google Chrome has that the Chromium Browser doesn't).
You can try this.
The host server may change based on ping speeds from your IP addr
Why are you thinking of switching? Not willing to help the rest of us?
Using Opera right now. it and Dolphin are by far the quickest/best on my aging Android phone...
Using Opera right now. it and Dolphin are by far the quickest/best on my aging Android phone...
Google keeps tinkering with Chrome and in my opinion they ruin it by removing popular items like their portal page and favorite destinations in the blank page.
You miss my point. Every site visited puts a cookie on the machine, views the other cookies that are already on the machine and records the IP address of that machine.
HELLO?????
As a side note, your English is terrible.
Heh...heh...for all you users of browsers worried about being tracked or what speed it will do.... Do yourself a favor. Go out and buy guns! Someone is going to get you whether it is the government or any of the other demons you believe in.
Heh...heh...for all you users of browsers worried about being tracked or what speed it will do.... Do yourself a favor. Go out and buy guns! Someone is going to get you whether it is the government or any of the other demons you believe in.
I’ve been utilizing Comodo Dragon for about a month now. It’s based on Chromium. Very stable and you can work in the “incognito” mode easily. Seems a bit faster than Chrome.
Hi - Late to the party, but FWIW I use Opera version 11.11 (which is older).
To me, it seems like all the browsers keep “upgrading,” but do not necessarily improve the user experience.
I have used the Opera for so very long, and have my particular version so customized that I don’t wish to get a newer version, because upgrades break things that have been working. For example, I tried 11.5 for a while, and just couldn’t get things to work as I wanted.
Nor do I wish to switch. Some sites do not work well in Opera, and so I use other browsers, and just get frustrated by them. They seem to really restrict you in what you can do.
Again, FWIW. Me & Opera are like an old married couple. I’m not always thrilled, but the Customization (which does take effort, sometimes a lot) has always given Opera the edge.
YMMV, but I’ll hang on as long as I can.
Chrome is faster. But I’ll never use it. Because it is Google. Screw Google.
Its not so different nowadays, with the exception of the mail client (but I like and use it). How bookmarks are displayed and categorized, how tabs are used (it has used tabs much longer than the other browsers), how passwords are saved and presented, and the speed-dial set up are just a few things. I would try it and see. Just be aware that Opera is generally more correct in rendering to standards, so some pages will look different, as some pages will not work, as people do program for the incorrect rendering of the other browsers (IE, FF) and these pages sometimes do not work in Opera. Same goes for some javascript. But this is not the issue it was just a few years ago. Like I said give it a try and see what you like.
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