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I've used chrome because it was faster than Firefox ( and didn't crash so often ). I've switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. It seems that all the stability issues were resolved. I urge everyone to do the same.
Wow. "Don't be evil" is really dead and buried isn't it?
Duh, it stopped when organic growth stopped. But we were stupid to have believed it in the first place. Now they are desperate: ads everywhere, penalties everywhere (makes you advertise to replace lost traffic) and so on. They still make north of 95% of their income on ads with all their supposed innovation. I don't trust them at all. On anything. I wonder what Google Search "Quality" has in store for 2013th fourth q…
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An important information from the "confidential" studies here for example would be what kind of monitors were tested.
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fwiw the address bar does most of what Chrome's omnibar does, out of the box. It's just a bit hidden because they include the search field by default.
Except that it won't search for things that look roughly like an URL or a hostname.
Tbh I prefer this over what Chrome tends to do to me. In Chrome, if I type "youtube" and hit enter it searches for youtube, despite having many such URLs in my history, including youtube.com. Firefox will just take me to youtube.com immediately.
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I'm currently using Nightly UX. I've been using it for quite awhile and I haven't had any problems with it. That being said, you should keep in mind that this is a pre-alpha release and it wouldn't be surprising to run into some problems. If your browsing experience heavily depends on extensions, I'd recommend you not to use Nightly, though. I only use NoScript and AdBlock Edge as my extensions, but if you install 10…
I've used Firefox all my life because of Firebug. Then after a while it just got so slow that it was unusable and the experience became terrible. And then I switched to Chrome. I'm not fond of their developer tools as much. Not as good as Firebug. I guess I'll give FF another shot.
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> I trust Mozilla more than I trust Google. No company working with the NSA can ever be trusted. That only leaves Mozilla. Plus, are there any other companies that are not-for-profit, like Mozilla? Because this point gives them a huge credit.
What makes you think that Mozilla are obliged to cooperate with the NSA any less than Google are?
I think in 10 years we'll all be buying ad-supported Google PCs for free and they'll have a little window that you cant get rid of - that will show you ads. And probably have eye tracking that will blank the monitor every hour if you dont look at the ad.
Chrome has already turned into a keylogger than can also browse the internet. I remember watching a really old screensavers episode with Patrick Norton discussing how cookies were evil and how websites voilated user privacy by saving their IP addresses !. Hell.. Netscape was sued 13 years ago just because they captured what links you clicked.
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>Those are features that don't focus on the UX or the design. I think that build is labeled Aurora Nope, Aurora is something else. It's the build after Nightly. Nightly includes pre-alpha releases, Aurora includes alpha releases. You are however correct that Nightly and Nightly UX are not the same thing. Although if I'm not mistaken the only difference between two of them is that Nightly UX also gets pre-alpha UI cha…
Which one would you recommend I get? Am currently using Chrome and wouldn't mind switching to FF.
Well, what could they do? Google is not making enough money :P I think in 10 years we'll all be buying ad-supported Google PCs for free and they'll have a little window that you cant get rid of - that will show you ads. And probably have eye tracking that will blank the monitor every hour if you dont look at the ad. Chrome has already turned into a keylogger than can also browse the internet. I remember watching a re…