Author Topic: Why do people use Google Chrome? (Read 8144 times)

vuzedome · « **Reply #20 on:** March 21, 2010, 12:36:00 PM »

I'm using Chrome, and I know how to crash it.

temuchin · « **Reply #21 on:** March 22, 2010, 06:45:44 AM »

Quote from: kyanwan on March 20, 2010, 01:16:26 PM

Firefox is my main browser. I hate it at times. They claim it's nice and smooth, but it sucks and is clunky. Not the best in my opinion, but it's the best we have at the moment.
( the ideal for me, at the moment, is how browsers handled from around the IE4 / Netscape Gold time. Oh yeah, they were fairly smooth back then. Sure, they're more complex ... more fucking useless add-on shit ... but - I got spoiled with stability & speed. Any damn company want to step the hell up & make a decent browser again? )

Ah. Almost forgot - I refer to it as "firefuck" here. LoL!

IE sucks about 100 times more. IE is barf in a bag. I use this for intranet shit & fully trusted applications only (i.e.: anything I write myself, and use internally. It has decent API shit. Anyone know if Firefox has the same crap? I'd use firefox instead - I never bothered to look if Firefox has equivalent stuff.)

Chrome was ... worse than Firefox. Just barely. I would use it - but I have considerations: a- security b- stability. Firefox has been tested enough by me, and I am unable to switch without a headache. Oh. And google is behind chrome. That's a big negative for me.

Opera was annoying.

Safari - I liked the speed, and I liked the feel ... but I figured it was apple - apple is untested shit ( just look how popular mac is ) - and probably full of security holes. So, I didn't run it. http://gizmodo.com/5175246/safari-cracked-in-seconds-at-pwn2own-hacking-competition Yeah. ( In other words - Apple isn't real world computing. Sorry! Everything everyone says in the security field about apple - is correct. With the real world market share that Apple has, it's no wonder Apple has "security" - nobody writes virii for Apple because there are no lame Apple systems to take over. Now, iPhone on the other hand > I can't wait - it's going to be epic. Yes, that's already being discussed. IMO, the only question is: how do you compromise [in most people's worlds: "infect"] an iphone? BWAHAHAHAHAH! )

Are there other browsers? If so I don't care.

all i can say is you are unarmed and still very dangerous. reading this vitriol from some1 whom has no idea what he's talking about was painful.

i use firefox and safari.

bloody000 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 23, 2010, 06:47:30 AM »

Enabling colour management rapes Chrome's performance, so I still use Firefox.

Path · « **Reply #23 on:** March 23, 2010, 08:07:54 AM »

I love you, Google.

fohfoh · « **Reply #24 on:** March 25, 2010, 12:27:38 AM »

You probably just messed with the drop down box.

bloody000 · « **Reply #25 on:** March 25, 2010, 01:29:21 PM »

Just a warning, Chromium is constantly updating, like dozens of time each day. So don't come in here crying when things blow up

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isukianime · « **Reply #26 on:** March 25, 2010, 02:44:11 PM »

I'm using FF and IE 8. The IE 9 previews look interesting but there's no way I'll ever use Chrome. I don't trust google

levictus · « **Reply #27 on:** March 26, 2010, 03:46:10 AM »

I started surfing the web using Netscape Navigator 4.0x. I actually enjoyed using Netscape Navigator. However, after some time I was eventually forced to switch to IE 5.5 (or maybe 5.0). I tried Netscape 6 when it came out and was thoroughly disappointed, it was slow and kinda buggy. Sometime around 2003, I heard about this thing called Mozilla Application Suite. It seems kind of cool, but I didn't particularly like the idea of having to install a whole bunch of other application just to get a browser. However, pretty soon I discovered a little side project called Firebird. It was still in beta (version 0.6), but it was by far the best web experience I have ever encountered. 7 years later, I am still using the now named Firefox. It's pretty quick (and the javascript engine should get another boost with 3.7), it's stable and it has awesome extensions. I also like Firefox because Mozilla is committed to keeping the web open and they were the first organization to undermine MS's monopoly (remember those IE only websites - gosh!). Chrome is a little faster and I guess it has the potential to work better with Google's services, however that's not enough or me to switch. I think I'll stick to Firefox!

samfisher1 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 26, 2010, 04:58:32 AM »

ok this is what i see with these browsers

IE 6,7,8 = for the people who dont know how do download firefox

Chrome= people who prefer google based services

safari = people who think using this browser will allow them to see moar animals

Misc = people who find unknown/unpopular browsers and find problems with no help

Fire Fox= Built for the User, not the other way around. Very Little Crash rate compaired to IE, decent preformance stats, and most of all. Customiseable! (not spelt right and i dont want to check)

Yes I Trust Firefox With My Internets
I Will Never Stray from my fox,
even if Cookies are Bribed,
As My Fox will allways bring Moar to the table than any other.
Foar FireFox

CH1R4L1TY · « **Reply #29 on:** March 28, 2010, 07:17:00 PM »

I don't speak for others. I just use Chrome because it's speedy, and I'm addicted to speedy things.
I still use Firefox for its DownloadThemAll! add-on.

levictus · « **Reply #30 on:** March 30, 2010, 03:11:42 AM »

"Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower."

Without the initial success of Firefox, there would be no Chrome or Safari. Opera would still be around, but it would still be forced identify itself as IE.

fohfoh · « **Reply #31 on:** March 30, 2010, 03:40:25 AM »

In all honesty, I was always aware of Opera. In the past I tried it and never ever liked it over FF.

Chrome and Safari and Opera (9.9X or w/e it was) were the first webkits I tried for both a replacement for FF for temporary use as well as IE as the backup. Which was due to the memory leak issues from FF back in the day. My frustration with that caused me to look into other browsers. Safari was the one that actually made me feel paranoia that my information was being collected while chrome ironically made me feel like, "Meh, I don't care". Opera was similar to chrome except for the fact it was so "cluttered" with drop down boxes and everything up the wazoo unlike chrome and safari which have a very clean "top area". For this reason alone, Opera did not stand out against chrome and was eliminated. Safari and Chrome were left. Safari's "where you've been" feature "would you like to go here" feature really made me paranoid. I had it on another laptop and let this one child I know use it. Even after cleaning out cookies, I could easily figure out what he had done on that browser AND the damn thing would immediately (even without cookies) ask me stuff like, "Oh, saw you liked going on some flash based game site. Wanna try this other one?" It really gave me the vibes of a creepy uncle trying to get you to try alternatives until finally when you weren't looking, he'd attack and molest you. That's the reason why I chucked out safari and settled with chrome.

But in all seriousness, if you don't want people to know what you use your computer for.... there's always:

Ctrl + Shift + P for FireFox.

ZeroZero65 · « **Reply #32 on:** March 30, 2010, 11:52:34 AM »

Chrome is currently fastest browser. I personaly use Mozilla Firefox and Opera. I tried Chrome and i noticed it is faster than FireFox or Opera but i didn't like it, it crashed once...

Crimson13 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 30, 2010, 01:30:18 PM »

I use Chrome AND Firefox, i prefer neither one over the other.

Shirow · « **Reply #34 on:** April 02, 2010, 11:39:35 PM »

Uh. Some of my friends use Chrome because it's... "cute". Yep they're girls. And they also say that it's faster and everything else. Well maybe.
I tried it once but found nothing spectacular.
From the very beginning I use Opera and it's not looking like I'm going to change my browser of choise sometime soon.

sungman · « **Reply #35 on:** April 05, 2010, 12:19:24 AM »

Really to be simple people use Chrome because its lightweight, really fucking fast, and pretty reliable.
People bitch about it because of its privacy policy(which I can sympathize with) or because people say "ROFL(insert browser)PWN, (Insert other browser)FCKINGSUCKS ROFLZ!!!" about any fucking browser that isn't there own.

P.S. I'm a Firefox user btw

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Stsin · « **Reply #36 on:** April 06, 2010, 03:38:27 PM »

Since Chrome 4.0 added the ability to use GreaseMonkey scripts (by the same person who made it), plugins, and extensions. It's getting close to doing all the addons that are on Firefox in a short manner of time.

One feature I really like with Chrome and should be useful to those of this forum is the built in translator. When you convert a page, you aren't sending the whole URL to be converted. It converts the source page. So this works nicely on sites you have to log in, and it's quick. And after translating a page on a site, it automatically translates the rest as you browse through it. For example, it's a breeze to go through nico nico douga's and other Japanese registration pages. Though of course, doesn't translate images and flash

And if worried about privacy, which you should be: Just use the alternatives that this thread has talked about: Chromium or the already compiled SRWare Iron. They are Chrome without the snooping. Though I suggest not trying the alpha versions.

I was comparing Chrome's incognito mode to Firefox's privacy mode. On this game site, Muxxu, you are limited on number of accounts you can make. Stored by flash settings and cookies. With Incognito mode, I can make as many as I want. Doesn't work with Firefox's privacy mode. In otherwords, incognito mode truly removes stored information about you, unlike Firefox's privacy mode.

btw, if you use Google search, and especially the toolbar; and then complain about Chrome's privacy, is being silly.

Perplexing · « **Reply #37 on:** April 23, 2010, 09:47:26 PM »

I strongly dislike Internet Explorer that being said..... I use a browser based of the IE engine called Avant Browser.
I have been using Avant for about 7 years now. I tried chrome when it first came out and I could not stand it. Albeit since then it has chnages majorly.

I use firefox as well but not as often. The main reason for avant was back then it was the first browser I used that had tabbed browsing and even though firefox has an add-on for this now it had and still has an option called URL Alias.

I'm extremely lazy as in I don't type in a traditional manner albeit I can type fast but again i am lazy. URL Alias makes things simple instead of typing bakabt.me I type what I choose to represent bakabt.me. I type in Baka then press enter and it loads the full address for me. It's especially useful on long web addresses
such as www.anime-planet.com I just type ani then hit enter and it takes me there.

kostya · « **Reply #38 on:** April 24, 2010, 03:50:05 AM »

Quote from: Perplexing on April 23, 2010, 09:47:26 PM

I strongly dislike Internet Explorer that being said..... I use a browser based of the IE engine called Avant Browser.
I have been using Avant for about 7 years now. I tried chrome when it first came out and I could not stand it. Albeit since then it has chnages majorly.

I use firefox as well but not as often. The main reason for avant was back then it was the first browser I used that had tabbed browsing and even though firefox has an add-on for this now it had and still has an option called URL Alias.

I'm extremely lazy as in I don't type in a traditional manner albeit I can type fast but again i am lazy. URL Alias makes things simple instead of typing bakabt.me I type what I choose to represent bakabt.me. I type in Baka then press enter and it loads the full address for me. It's especially useful on long web addresses
such as www.anime-planet.com I just type ani then hit enter and it takes me there.

Was firefox ever not tabbed? Also, in Firefox you can add a keyword to a bookmark so that the bookmark is loaded when you put it a keyword. You can even add variables to bookmark URLs and pass arguments to a keyword (no, I do not remember the syntax for it).

Perplexing · « **Reply #39 on:** April 24, 2010, 12:25:25 PM »

Quote from: kostya on April 24, 2010, 03:50:05 AM

Was firefox ever not tabbed? Also, in Firefox you can add a keyword to a bookmark so that the bookmark is loaded when you put it a keyword. You can even add variables to bookmark URLs and pass arguments to a keyword (no, I do not remember the syntax for it).

Avant was the better browser for me. I'm not telling everyone to try it.
Just stating that I like this browser. Also Firefox has an add-on called URL Alias that does the same thing that avant does.....
however this has not been around for years to my knowledge.
As far as adding keywords to a bookmark this I have not done.
Probably because I only use the URL alias feature on Avant or firefox for sites
I visit on a daily basis (bakabt, maximumpc, imdb, chihiro etc.) bookmarks for me are only used on sites that
I want to keep note of in case I need to go back some time later.

Does any one know if this feature is available on Chrome?