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Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?

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Post by drawkbox »

spydez wrote: post #44
mixmax wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always found it somewhat contradictory and hypocritical that the very people that live off ad-based websites (webbased entrepreneurs and founders) are so highly correlated with the group of people that absolutely cannot live without adblocking software - thereby robbing the siteowners of their income model. Note: spydez - this isn't in any way meant as a personal attack, it just seemed like the right place to put m…

No offense take. I'm not an entrepreneur. ;) But if I ever do come up with an awesome idea, I'm determined I'll create it and make money off of it without putting up adverts. I hate adverts with a burning passion and I'm not about to force them down my potential users throats.

Advertising is one of the only ways to monetize free visitor aspects and paths. Advertising is one of the last American innovative markets. As soon as you start trying to bring any type of content that that is free, I am sure you will change your ways.

Blocking ads is like anti-bacterial soap. It makes your immunity to these things much lower if that is why you are so bothered by ads. Block ads on sites that you don't frequent, but ones that you do, throw some pennies in the hat.

Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?

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Post by Flemlord »

rg wrote: post #8

Switched yesterday. I transferred 8 tabs from FF3 and 8 tabs from IE (formerly ran both, for different sites), and started using Chrome exclusively. So far, 100% perfection, 100% stability. All the financial sites, news sites, Amazon, ..., everything works perfectly. Great performance. Very slick developer tools built-in.

Ditto. However, I switched from FireFox and I'm starting to miss FoxMarks. (I have four computers that I switch between.)

Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

I'm writing apps for people with browsers. Right now that means I have IE and FF on my machine.

If Chrome gets a big following, I'll download it. But I don't have a particular problem that I need fixing. If the JS performance is as slick as they say, then perhaps a killer web site will come along and cause me to download and use Chrome more. So far, that ain't happening.

Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?

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Post by iamah »

volida wrote: post #51
fiaz wrote: post #13

Chrome will not interest me until there is some ad-blocking available. Yes, it is superior to anything else out there, but my killer app for the web is still being able to surf the web sans irritating advertising.

why is ad-blocking so important?? please someone explain me...

popups and intrusive flash

Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?

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Post by tobyo »

spydez wrote: post #4

Not until Chrome gets extensions/addons. I absolutely cannot live without ad blocking, better tab management, NoScript and my check-multiple-gmail-accounts addons.

I can't live without the vimperator plugin now. It's so nice to browse without using the mouse. I can't go back. If only Firefox had Opera's password storage interface I would be ecstatic.

Chrome offers nothing new right now aside from potential performance gains. If the beta version is crashing, that is worse for performance than slow-loading pages.

Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?

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Post by wenbert »

lux wrote: post #15

No real choice but Firefox as my main browser since my main web activity is development. Chrome, Safari, IE all can't compete with Firebug, YSlow, etc for web development, so for expediency I have to develop in Firefox first and test in the others afterwards. I think that's a big part of what makes Firefox such a compelling browser, it's developer heaven compared to the others. It looks like Opera is starting to reco…

I agree with what you have said about Firebug. I absolutely cannot live without it. The Inspect feature of Firebug is priceless especially when working with the DOM. It's easy to use and it is in the same window. I do not have to switch windows to look at the html source.

For now, I just use Chrome for my "24/7" tabs like feeds and online email. I never have to close them and it loads at "notepad-like" speed :)

Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?

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Post by maximilian »

Flemlord wrote: post #62
rg wrote: post #8

Switched yesterday. I transferred 8 tabs from FF3 and 8 tabs from IE (formerly ran both, for different sites), and started using Chrome exclusively. So far, 100% perfection, 100% stability. All the financial sites, news sites, Amazon, ..., everything works perfectly. Great performance. Very slick developer tools built-in.

Ditto. However, I switched from FireFox and I'm starting to miss FoxMarks. (I have four computers that I switch between.)

1. Work Computer 2. Home Computer 3. Home laptop 4. ???

Re: Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?

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Post by bd »

Not yet. I wanted, but it's still too beta:

  - I got hard crash, real BSOD, not just browser
  - constant disk trashing (comes from "Phishing and malware protection" feature)
  - Flash is actually much slower than FF/Opera/Explorer
  - no way for me to import Firefox bookmarks (it doesn't appear in menu)
  - don't try "about:%"
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