The Software Preferences Thread - MY APP CAN BEAT YOUR APP
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Re: Show us your desktop!
jlee why are you so mean to me
But yeah, wrong use of words. I guess there's plenty of arguments of why Firefox may be considered better than Chrome. And to be honest, it's a matter of opinion and personal preference. But aside from add-ons, Chrome is better. It's faster. Also, for all of you saying when one tab crashes, they all do: you're doing something wrong. On my piece of flax desktop, I've never had that happen. Heck, I can't remember the last time a tab crashed at all.
Also, to get back on topic, my piece of flax desktop's desktop:
And in a few minutes, my laptop's desktop, since I'm finally getting it back tonight.
jlee why are you so mean to me
But yeah, wrong use of words. I guess there's plenty of arguments of why Firefox may be considered better than Chrome. And to be honest, it's a matter of opinion and personal preference. But aside from add-ons, Chrome is better. It's faster. Also, for all of you saying when one tab crashes, they all do: you're doing something wrong. On my piece of flax desktop, I've never had that happen. Heck, I can't remember the last time a tab crashed at all.
Also, to get back on topic, my piece of flax desktop's desktop:
And in a few minutes, my laptop's desktop, since I'm finally getting it back tonight.
Twilight Wolf
Frequent Poster
Re: Show us your desktop!
Well, you're clearly the expert, so please tell me what exactly I'm doing wrong by, you know, running Chrome.
Also, once I finish installing my graphics card's new driver I'm gonna get to work on splitting this off-topicness into a new thread.
Ampersand said:
Well, you're clearly the expert, so please tell me what exactly I'm doing wrong by, you know, running Chrome.
Also, once I finish installing my graphics card's new driver I'm gonna get to work on splitting this off-topicness into a new thread.
Twilight Wolf
Frequent Poster
Re: Browser Wars (split from Show us your desktop!)
Thread split.
Browser discussion goes here from now on.
Thread split.
Browser discussion goes here from now on.
J.D
No Stranger To Love
Re: Show us your desktop!
Whut
Also, from my experience, most of the Chrome themes are pretty mediocre. Firefox has a much better selection of themes. In addition, it is also a lot more customizable - If you like Chrome's UI, you can have Chrome's UI. Also, probably a couple sites work better for me in Firefox then in Chrome.
Don't get me wrong - Chrome's a good browser. But in terms of usability, not much has changed from the Chrome Beta back in 2009 or 2008.
Why?Ampersand said:
Ampersand said:
Whut
Also, from my experience, most of the Chrome themes are pretty mediocre. Firefox has a much better selection of themes. In addition, it is also a lot more customizable - If you like Chrome's UI, you can have Chrome's UI. Also, probably a couple sites work better for me in Firefox then in Chrome.
Don't get me wrong - Chrome's a good browser. But in terms of usability, not much has changed from the Chrome Beta back in 2009 or 2008.
Basement_Modder
He who mods in thy basement.
Re: Browser Wars (split from Show us your desktop!)
Looks pretty close to me...
...but I still use chrome more. Its faster, IMO.
Firefox is better when I'm, say, doing a research paper and want to have like 25 tabs open. :/
Looks pretty close to me...
...but I still use chrome more. Its faster, IMO.
Firefox is better when I'm, say, doing a research paper and want to have like 25 tabs open. :/
Re: Browser Wars (split from Show us your desktop!)
Browser X is better, because, well, yeah, ya know.
That's not debating.
That's stating an opinion as a fact.
It's called "Being *Can'tSayThisOnTV*ing Stupid".
It's an incredibly stupid thing to do.
Don't do it.
Try to give points to support your argument.
"It's faster" is not a valid point.
Guess what, there are a ton of *Can'tSayThisOnTV*ing factors to this effect. A ton.
A *Can'tSayThisOnTV* ton.
A Jesus Christ Holy *Can'tSayThisOnTV*ing Balls Are You Kidding Me God Dangit *Can'tSayThisOnTV* TON.
Some sites will be faster in A than in B.
Some sites will be faster in B than in A.
Some will not render correctly in A.
Some will not render correctly in B.
Some load faster on Mr. Guys computer.
Some load faster on Mr. Gays computer.
Saying a browser is "Faster" is like saying a car is "Faster".
Maybe 0 - 60, it could be.
Maybe in a quarter mile it is.
Maybe on the Nurburgring it is.
But if A beats B in 0 - 60, and B beats A on a quarter mile, and A has a greater top speed, and B reaches its top speed twice as fast as A, and A has better cornering, and B has a better driver, ...
Yeah.
Shut the *Can'tSayThisOnTV* up about "Faster".
Browser X is better, because, well, yeah, ya know.
That's not debating.
That's stating an opinion as a fact.
It's called "Being *Can'tSayThisOnTV*ing Stupid".
It's an incredibly stupid thing to do.
Don't do it.
Try to give points to support your argument.
"It's faster" is not a valid point.
Guess what, there are a ton of *Can'tSayThisOnTV*ing factors to this effect. A ton.
A *Can'tSayThisOnTV* ton.
A Jesus Christ Holy *Can'tSayThisOnTV*ing Balls Are You Kidding Me God Dangit *Can'tSayThisOnTV* TON.
Some sites will be faster in A than in B.
Some sites will be faster in B than in A.
Some will not render correctly in A.
Some will not render correctly in B.
Some load faster on Mr. Guys computer.
Some load faster on Mr. Gays computer.
Saying a browser is "Faster" is like saying a car is "Faster".
Maybe 0 - 60, it could be.
Maybe in a quarter mile it is.
Maybe on the Nurburgring it is.
But if A beats B in 0 - 60, and B beats A on a quarter mile, and A has a greater top speed, and B reaches its top speed twice as fast as A, and A has better cornering, and B has a better driver, ...
Yeah.
Shut the *Can'tSayThisOnTV* up about "Faster".
Basement_Modder
He who mods in thy basement.
Re: Browser Wars (split from Show us your desktop!)
How about this: On my computer, Google Chrome has the tendency to load web pages more quickly than Firefox.
How about this: On my computer, Google Chrome has the tendency to load web pages more quickly than Firefox.
bic
Well-Known Member
Re: Browser Wars (split from Show us your desktop!)
I like Opera because:
- It seems to use less memory when there's a crapton of tabs open than the others, and actually frees that memory properly when it's done with it. (It's not uncommon for me to have so many tabs open that they don't fit in my 1920x1080 monitor without getting squished to 5 pixels wide.)
- Firefox pissed itself in fear of my bookmark backup file (I have deleted maybe a dozen bookmarks since 2006)
- I really like the collapsible sidebar that can list your tabs, downloads, history, plugins, bookmarks, or pretty much anything else you want it to
- The same exact version runs on my Windows 7 desktop, iMac G3 (on OS X), Windows 2000 laptop, and the NT 4 VM I keep around for laughs
- Opera Turbo comes in handy for when I'm using someone else's slow crappy WiFi and don't want to turn images off completely. (Basically it sends all images through their server to get squished into very noticeably compressed JPEGs.)
- Saved sessions. Close the browser and it picks up exactly where you left off, not where you last decided to save a session or where you were 10 minutes ago.
And obligatory UI size screenshot:
(That bar on the left can be completely disabled, but I leave it up because I'm lazy.)
I like Opera because:
- It seems to use less memory when there's a crapton of tabs open than the others, and actually frees that memory properly when it's done with it. (It's not uncommon for me to have so many tabs open that they don't fit in my 1920x1080 monitor without getting squished to 5 pixels wide.)
- Firefox pissed itself in fear of my bookmark backup file (I have deleted maybe a dozen bookmarks since 2006)
- I really like the collapsible sidebar that can list your tabs, downloads, history, plugins, bookmarks, or pretty much anything else you want it to
- The same exact version runs on my Windows 7 desktop, iMac G3 (on OS X), Windows 2000 laptop, and the NT 4 VM I keep around for laughs
- Opera Turbo comes in handy for when I'm using someone else's slow crappy WiFi and don't want to turn images off completely. (Basically it sends all images through their server to get squished into very noticeably compressed JPEGs.)
- Saved sessions. Close the browser and it picks up exactly where you left off, not where you last decided to save a session or where you were 10 minutes ago.
And obligatory UI size screenshot:
(That bar on the left can be completely disabled, but I leave it up because I'm lazy.)
Re: Show us your desktop!
But, maybe I'm wrong, Chrome loads webpages and plays YouTube videos more smoothly than Firefox on all the computers I've actually compared. And I've never had Chrome crash, and Firefox used to crash a bunch. Granted, that was just after the Firefox 3 release.
Has anyone else heard of this Flock browser, though? I'm interested in trying it out, since I do social network quite a bit.
What do you mean, whut. That's what I'm talking about. That's so much clutter, bro. But I mean if you're not into slim and curvy things, go make sweet love to your fatty FirefoxJ.D said:Why?Ampersand said:
Ampersand said:
Whut
Also, from my experience, most of the Chrome themes are pretty mediocre. Firefox has a much better selection of themes. In addition, it is also a lot more customizable - If you like Chrome's UI, you can have Chrome's UI. Also, probably a couple sites work better for me in Firefox then in Chrome.
Don't get me wrong - Chrome's a good browser. But in terms of usability, not much has changed from the Chrome Beta back in 2009 or 2008.
But, maybe I'm wrong, Chrome loads webpages and plays YouTube videos more smoothly than Firefox on all the computers I've actually compared. And I've never had Chrome crash, and Firefox used to crash a bunch. Granted, that was just after the Firefox 3 release.
Has anyone else heard of this Flock browser, though? I'm interested in trying it out, since I do social network quite a bit.
geno whirl
Active Member
Re: Browser Wars (split from Show us your desktop!)
I used firefox for a really long time, but finally switched to chrome when it got to the point where it took about a minute to boot firefox. The only reason I was still using firefox was because of adblock plus, but it seems that chrome's version has improved since then. Chrome is just better at booting, but as far as loading pages go, I don't see much difference. There, I didn't use the word fast.
I used firefox for a really long time, but finally switched to chrome when it got to the point where it took about a minute to boot firefox. The only reason I was still using firefox was because of adblock plus, but it seems that chrome's version has improved since then. Chrome is just better at booting, but as far as loading pages go, I don't see much difference. There, I didn't use the word fast.
