The worst part about chrome for me is that I can't access my Gmail accounts through Chrome. That's right, I have to use Firefox to access Google's own product because Chrome won't play nice with my school Google Apps account that my school provided us for email. Whenever I try to get to my school account it redirects to the gmail account I used to sign into Chrome - this happens regardless of whether I try to access the account directly through the school's website, or through the gmail website. The only way to get around it is to completely sign out of the browser, restart it, then make sure I don't visit any other sites than my school email. Obviously this is an enormous hassle and it wasn't always this way. I used to be able to use the multiple accounts feature with ease until one day Google up and broke it.
Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
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Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#62I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph ...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I've accumulated over the years[...] I had to stop and say "wait, what?" To leverage his analogy that it is like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there, it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for…
I'm not a Chrome-by-default user. But when it is closed and I drag a link to its icon, it is very infuriating that it just doesn't open the link that I asked it to, but whatever else it felt like opening alongside it.
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#63Firefox on Mac still has too many visual issues, and the devs often drag their feet on fixing them. Lion (released 2011) added "bounce" scrolling and auto-hiding scrollbars. It took them nearly half a year to fix the lack of auto-hiding scrollbars nightly builds[1], and even longer for it to finally make it to mainline Firefox. Firefox still doesn't have bounce scrolling. To add to that point, the first high-dpi (ret…
> Finally, it's still not multi-process (though it's finally getting there.) [2] In fact, Nightly now is by default.
So still not in stable and Chrome has had it for what? 4 years now?
EDIT: Ok, downvote me all you want but it's a fact, not opinion. I'd give FF another shot once it's in stable but as it is now I'm not going to waste my time playing on a nightly build.
Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
#64I'll switch back to Firefox when they stop re-arranging the UI. Every year or so it gets changed. It's what drove me to Chrome in the first place.
Australis was the biggest change since Firefox 4 I think. Firefox 4 was quite a while ago.
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#65The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID. Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.
"Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account."
But that's their entire business model.
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#66I've had to use Safari lately because Hulu simply won't work in Chrome. I've also found that some sites that are unusably slow in Chrome scroll like a dream in Safari. It's too bad, because I prefer Chrome's UI. YMMV.
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#67I finally gave Chrome the heave-ho when a recent update forced you to browse under a personal profile. There was a bug in the implementation that would crash the browser if you deleted the profile it created for you (I just wanted to use it normally like I always did!) I ended up inadvertently deleting all my saved bookmarks from the Chrome cloud or whatever. Fed up, I switched to Firefox and have been remarkably happy.
Right now, I have one tab open in Chrome (was debugging a web page) and, including "Chrome Helpers", is using 86 threads and 11% of CPU. Firefox on the other hand has 33 tabs active and, including "Firefox Plugin Content", is using 104 threads and 8.5% of CPU.
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#68I find Chrome's web dev tools to be vastly superior to FF and last time I tried it it didn't look good on my Mac and I had the same memory problems as with Chrome. Until FF get's much faster or better devtools than chrome I'm not interested. Not to mention how often does a Chrome extension hit the front page of HN vs a FF one? Don't get me wrong, I don't love Chrome unconditionally (the RAM usage is crazy but so is F…
I heard a rumor a while back that Firefox was developing a browser targeted at web developers. Not sure if thats unnecessary or what but if it materializes I'll probably give it a try.
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#69For me the performance has never been a problem, but the end of NPAPI support may also force me back to FF.
Uh, aren't they both dropping support? [0]
[0] https://github.com/shotgunsoftware/browser-plugin/issues/13
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#70I love firefox, mostly because of the pentadactyl extension(not compatible with firefox 35, sadly) but it has a huge number of problems. Namely, it crashes far too often. It's extremely frustrating, and no number of bug reports I fill out or new releases ever seems to address the problem. I'm thinking of trying to find a better productivity extension, or go back to emacs type shortcuts with chrome or safari. Of cours…
cvim for chrome is really fantastic. I was like you, up until a month ago. I don't miss FF at all. I'm waiting for someone to encorporate vim bindings, umatrix, and webkit into a package... I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't use it.
yes, this is exactly what I was looking for. This is so much better than the other "vim" chrome extensions. Thanks.