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How can they not point out the elephant in the room? Not having H.264 support is a deal-killer for some users, and this is going to increase. As a user, this means I either see HTML5 video as broken, or I get noticeably worse quality at the same bit-rate. This is symbolic of internal forces in the product leading to decisions that no users actually want.
Plus, Mozilla's business model is basically done for. With Google providing a Firefox competitor, how long do you really think it will be before Google pulls their deal with Mozilla to give them money per search via the search box?
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On both my home Ubuntu system and my work Windows XP system, Firefox and Chrome are about the same speed and the same memory footprint. However, I can't deny that Chrome subjectively feels snappier to use.
Chrome subjectively feels snappier Right, and why would anything else matter for a web browser?
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I wouldn't say Chrome fails miserably at browser tweaking, but maybe I don't do enough tweaking myself. What exactly are you trying to do that Chrome won't let you do?
Things I can't live without: Link Widgets: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2933/ Basically, it studies the source for links like "next" and "previous," and lets you page forward and backward with alt+pageup/down. Works great on xkcd, New York Times, and many others. --- Noscript/Flashblock: 'nuff said. --- Colorzilla: http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/ Color picker. Combined with Firebug, great for web…
noscript: built-in, although configuration isn't that robust
flashblock: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepj... https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoi...
color picker: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/egmjgagjcamhcilh...
Everyone that I know are using Chrome right now, except guys like me that like to tweak their browsers (something that Chrome fails miserably) and some extensions that sadly does not fit well into Chrome architecture. The other major problem (a search bar) was partly solved by Duck Duck Go.
I wouldn't say Chrome fails miserably at browser tweaking, but maybe I don't do enough tweaking myself. What exactly are you trying to do that Chrome won't let you do?
Plus, Mozilla's business model is basically done for. With Google providing a Firefox competitor, how long do you really think it will be before Google pulls their deal with Mozilla to give them money per search via the search box?
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Can chrome handle mathml yet? Edit: I just downloaded gc beta for linux, and the answer is: NO. And SVG is downright ugly (but it animates ok with javascript). It was wicked fast, though.
It's sad not having MathML support in WebKit. It means that I still need Firefox on my Win7 and Ubuntu machines and that I'm screwed on the iPod Touch.
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On both my home Ubuntu system and my work Windows XP system, Firefox and Chrome are about the same speed and the same memory footprint. However, I can't deny that Chrome subjectively feels snappier to use.
Chrome subjectively feels snappier Right, and why would anything else matter for a web browser?
How can they not point out the elephant in the room? Not having H.264 support is a deal-killer for some users, and this is going to increase. As a user, this means I either see HTML5 video as broken, or I get noticeably worse quality at the same bit-rate. This is symbolic of internal forces in the product leading to decisions that no users actually want.
Just to wrap my head around Firefox---and please don't take this the wrong way---why are you choosing Firefox over Chrome, if not for the extensions and debuggers? I use Opera, so don't construe any snarkiness; I just honestly struggle to remember Firefox's redeeming qualities. And the boot time, oh God the boot time.
Mozilla have also built an incredible marketing machine which speaks to normal folk which seems to be missed by the geeks who are switching to Chrome. You don't get 1/3rd global market share with just geeks, certainly not the 2/3rds they've got in Germany. Apparently people think you can do this with a few advertisments and a popular brand. I wish Google luck (particularly as I think they're stealing share from IE) but I think it takes as much, if not more, support to sell a browser as it does to sell a mobile phone.
(If you'd allowed extensions as a reason, then Vimperator is nice too)