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Google Chrome is a great browser. Firefox is too, but it doesn't compare to Google's alternative.
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Anyway, those are just my thoughts when it comes to browsers.
However, Firefox does what you want it to do, and that makes all the difference. All the tools available to make searching and exploring the internet much faster. It's a bit ironic that the Google Toolbar isn't available for the Google browser. You can't even highlight search terms in Chrome, search site, or translate webpages, tools that many people use everyday. There are no extensions such as ChunkIt, del.icio.us, Flashblock, custom search engines...the list goes on and on. At the end of the day, these tools make using the internet incredibly more time efficient than Chrome. It's also quite an annoyance that you can't automatically delete search history upon close, or start Chrome up incognito by default.
Chrome is great for loading webpages, and using anything google, but that's about it. Firefox wins for people who do anything beyond this.
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- by Killa4luv December 2, 2008 7:39 PM PST
- I have to agree with what people have already said here. I enjoy Chrome. Alot. I love that each tab can be shut down seperately to reduce the use of system resources without closing the whole browser. No, I LOVE THAT!! But, my firefox browser is so customized that Chrome's strengths aren't enough. I have exactly the kind of experience i want on firefox, save for the fact that the browser uses too much memory. Other than that, even when I start out using Chrome, I eventually want to d/l something using my built in download manager, which links directly to rapidshare, or I wanna d/l a youtube video with a add-on thats built in to FF, or I want to check Gmail using Gmail manager. <--- OH the irony! Once Chrome gets out of beta and is customizable, we'll see. whats what. until then, FF wins.
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