Browser switch

[johnridley]

OK, so some stats came out a few days ago that Chrome is now the world's leading web browser by number of users (heavily used in Asia apparently). I've used Chrome as a backup in case FF didn't get along with some site, but when I've tried it as a primary browser in the past it didn't last long owing to the lack of addons. As I said elsewhere today, I "dislike" browsing without Adblock in the same way that I "dislike" driving nails through my arm.

Anyway, I decided to give it another go. Turns out that there is now a very complete complement of extensions, everything I've been using anyway. As a bonus, it's a ton faster. And I already knew that if there was a site that didn't work right in FF, so far all of them worked in Chrome.

EDIT: it also has a heck of a sweet developer interface built in, by hitting ctrl+shift+I - possibly all I need for developing my stuff rather than having to use plugins like Tamper Data.

I'm almost certainly staying with Chrome, I haven't found a downside yet.

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[whl.livejournal.com]

I've been doing some work in web related technologies lately (javascript, CSS, XSL), and so I judge browsers... A little differently.

For a long time, everything I tested "just worked" in FireFox, Safari, and Chrome, and needed tweaking, sometimes multiply, to work in IE 8 and 9.

Then, FireFox 11 broke things in CSS that worked in 10, and seem to work in 12. Chrome, on the other hand, with its rigid enforcement of security checks, is probably the safest (although at times, the most annoying). (Did you know that http://127.0.0.1 and http://localhost are NOT the same, security-model-wise?)

I also routinely manage to lock up any FIreFox install under Ubuntu, within about 10 link jumps. So I use Chrome exclusively on Linux, except when testing.

[alicebentley]

My main home machine is still a PowerBook G4, so no Chrome at home for me. No updated Firefox either for that matter.