Fuck chrome

[phenol]

I've had enough of this browser. Every once in a while I switch between chrome and opera, usually something big has to happen... like chrome just deciding I had too many cookies so it consumed them all. Back to opera...

[Jess]

maybe you don't like it but I certainly do. it's way better than Opera....but that's my opinion

[Shark98]

You could try a browser other than Opera or Chrome, if they're not really for you

[phenol]

But all other browsers suck

I'd use seamonkey but it has no plugin support for adblocking and stuffs. I use IE9 actually whenever my main browser is fucking up on a website. It's pretty nice for IE.

[Jess]

even Firefox?

[phenol]

Firefox is like the Rosie O'Donnell of browsers. Fat, uses up all of your memory, can only waddle where other browsers can speed along quickly...

[Cognizant]

Firefox is like the Rosie O'Donnell of browsers. Fat, uses up all of your memory, can only waddle where other browsers can speed along quickly...

I agree with you on that. :P

And that's nice. Have fun using opera.

[LouBerry]

I like Chrome a looooot.

[User Deleted]

I like chrome the best, and I was a skeptic. We're all entitled to our opinions, so have fun with Opera.

[Joshua D. Boggess]

I thought this was gonna be about cars and chrome lol :)

[Infidelitas]

Chrome serves my purpose better than any others. But that's my opinion....

[Thiqdare]

For me is Chrome the best and the fastest. And about Firefox, I agree with phenol :)

Firefox is like the Rosie O'Donnell of browsers. Fat, uses up all of your memory, can only waddle where other browsers can speed along quickly...

[Rayquaza]

If you don't like Chrome, don't use it.

There's other browsers as well as the ones mentioned above, such as Safari and Internet Explorer. No browser is 'perfect', you just need to find one that suits you. And if you have a problem with one, rather than making useless threads on why you hate them, you should report the bugs and faults to the browser developers so that they can fix them and make the browser better with updates.

[Foamy]

I prefer chrome. But, whatever floats ur boat.

[Scotland]

I much prefer chrome over anything else

-Scotland

[joshduder]

I prefer chrome but safari works too ...quite well

[phenol]

But apple is evil so no.

[Thunduhbuhlt]

Chrome is the only browser that syncs with my PC and my phone, so I am extremely happy. Plus, it's a million times faster than anything else.

[phenol]

Chrome is the only browser that syncs with my PC and my phone, so I am extremely happy. Plus, it's a million times faster than anything else.

False. Opera has always been either a few points behind or ahead of chrome on browser benchmarks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9TNdi4yBKc

[Caver]

I use firefox and have been for about 2 years, no problem so far!

[armadaskiing]

CHROME FTW. ... Anyways all other browsers suck, big RAM use, they are slow, very hard to uhm to see/find things and also except firefox they're quite laggy

[AutoPlay]

Firefox is like the Rosie O'Donnell of browsers. Fat, uses up all of your memory, can only waddle where other browsers can speed along quickly...

Gotta disagree, mine doesnt waddle

[TheMatrix]

Firefox is like the Rosie O'Donnell of browsers. Fat, uses up all of your memory, can only waddle where other browsers can speed along quickly...
Firefox is notorious for it's bad performance on Windoze. But then, it's Windoze, so don't expect too much of it. Performance is better on Linux, I've noticed. This is on my Linux(opensuse 11.4) machine, with a flash player open and a java applet:

UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
thomas 2928 2885 0 1129 1372 1 Jul26 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/firefox --sm-config-prefix /firefox-bin-SB3Vg2/ --sm-client-id 230cff944-e923-4bfd-81df-671832997c00 --screen 0
thomas 2939 2928 1 214325 304016 1 Jul26 ? 01:57:02 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
thomas 23205 2939 2 32623 26992 0 Jul29 ? 01:07:05 /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja 2939 true plugin

The interesting column is the RSS one, which is the total amount of physical memory(how much of your chips actually get used, so to speak) for that process, in kilobytes. The second one is the main firefox process, the last one is the plugin process, which has some badly written things loaded(2 or 3 youtube videos and some website banners written in Flash). The first one is the firefox starting script, I think.
333MB isn't too bad for all of that(and then some).

you should report the bugs and faults to the browser developers so that they can fix them and make the browser better with updates.
I'm not sure that Google will care all too much.

But apple is evil so no.
You and I seem to think alike :)

[cosdoxop96]

like chrome just deciding I had too many cookies so it consumed them all

that shouldn't happen...

you should check your extensions, the problems might be caused by one of them

[phenol]

Firefox is notorious for it's bad performance on Windoze. But then, it's Windoze, so don't expect too much of it. Performance is better on Linux, I've noticed. This is on my Linux(opensuse 11.4) machine, with a flash player open and a java applet:

UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
thomas 2928 2885 0 1129 1372 1 Jul26 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/firefox --sm-config-prefix /firefox-bin-SB3Vg2/ --sm-client-id 230cff944-e923-4bfd-81df-671832997c00 --screen 0
thomas 2939 2928 1 214325 304016 1 Jul26 ? 01:57:02 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
thomas 23205 2939 2 32623 26992 0 Jul29 ? 01:07:05 /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja 2939 true plugin

The interesting column is the RSS one, which is the total amount of physical memory(how much of your chips actually get used, so to speak) for that process, in kilobytes. The second one is the main firefox process, the last one is the plugin process, which has some badly written things loaded(2 or 3 youtube videos and some website banners written in Flash). The first one is the firefox starting script, I think.
333MB isn't too bad for all of that(and then some).
Opera and chrome have never gone above 250MB lol. I'm retesting firefox just because it has so many extensions, and it's at 150MB atm.

[darkwoon]

Opera and chrome have never gone above 250MB lol. I'm retesting firefox just because it has so many extensions, and it's at 150MB atm.
The only way to compare memory consumption of those browsers is to run them in similar circumstances on the same machine and the same system.

The Firefox extensions are precisely what usually makes it so memory-hungry: a couple very popular ones are real nasty players in that respect. Install extensions only when needed, and disable them if it starts to overly consuming resources.

Just as a side note, memory consumption alone is not a very useful metric; just because a program has requested less memory doesn't mean it is more efficient - you have to check its impact on the system as a whole (is the program responsive? Does it slow down the rest of the system? etc) to properly evaluate it.

[phenol]

The only way to compare memory consumption of those browsers is to run them in similar circumstances on the same machine and the same system.

The Firefox extensions are precisely what usually makes it so memory-hungry: a couple very popular ones are real nasty players in that respect. Install extensions only when needed, and disable them if it starts to overly consuming resources.

Just as a side note, memory consumption alone is not a very useful metric; just because a program has requested less memory doesn't mean it is more efficient - you have to check its impact on the system as a whole (is the program responsive? Does it slow down the rest of the system? etc) to properly evaluate it.
Congrats. I have 32 petabytes of RAM so I'm good for a few millennia.

[darkwoon]

Congrats. I have 32 petabytes of RAM so I'm good for a few millennia.
It was probably a long, boring task to plug all those 8GB DDR3 modules...

[phenol]

It was probably a long, boring task to plug all those 8GB DDR3 modules...

My motherboard gets all the bitches baby.

http://i45.tinypic.com/dniud3.jpg
If you look closely you can see a RAM slot in the middle. Some people say they can see more than one! Scary shit.

[Stacey.]

I've recently changed from Chrome to Safari because Chrome was just being super annoying. :|

[TheMatrix]

It was probably a long, boring task to plug all those 8GB DDR3 modules...
Oh my god, I don't even want to begin to think about that :P

The Firefox extensions are precisely what usually makes it so memory-hungry: a couple very popular ones are real nasty players in that respect. Install extensions only when needed, and disable them if it starts to overly consuming resources.
There's one particularly bad one -- "Video DownloadHelper" -- that probably accounts for half of the Firefox total resource usage on both of my machines.
I'd remove it, but that would require restarting Firefox, and that takes 30 seconds, which is outlandishly long for a programmer. :P

Google's Chrome is a good idea, but they need to fix some things for it to become more usable. Of course, it does have significantly more overhead for smaller websites and/or less tabs open(especially on WinNT-based systems), while Firefox's single process(probably threaded) approach allows for better integration with lighter systems.

[darkwoon]

Many interesting stats about popular browsers on Win7 and OSX here (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/macbook-air-chrome-16-firefox-9-benchmark,3108.html), and another comparative there. (http://lifehacker.com/5917714/browser-speed-tests-chrome-19-firefox-13-internet-explorer-9-and-opera-1164)

[phenol]

Oh my god, I don't even want to begin to think about that :P


There's one particularly bad one -- "Video DownloadHelper" -- that probably accounts for half of the Firefox total resource usage on both of my machines.
I'd remove it, but that would require restarting Firefox, and that takes 30 seconds, which is outlandishly long for a programmer. :P

Google's Chrome is a good idea, but they need to fix some things for it to become more usable. Of course, it does have significantly more overhead for smaller websites and/or less tabs open(especially on WinNT-based systems), while Firefox's single process(probably threaded) approach allows for better integration with lighter systems.
I only use a few 'real' extensions in any browser I use. Never those stupid "video accelerator" or "free porn XXX" ones because they're shittily designed by Chinese sweatshops to gold farm real life. Well that, and they don't work. I tried the ext you mentioned actually and never figured it out so removed it promptly.

[Telkanis]

As other people have said you can always try Firefox. There was a problem where it had a massive memory leak ( 1 tab open would use 2+ gigs) but it seems like its fixed.

[phenol]

As other people have said you can always try Firefox. There was a problem where it had a massive memory leak ( 1 tab open would use 2+ gigs) but it seems like its fixed.

I've been using it for a few days, AVG warns you when a program that shouldn't use too much memory does. It said it was 408MB last night. Not terrible considering I was streaming videos from gorillavid.

It's sitting at 275MB right now which isn't bad for 6GB of RAM.

[LatinaVivit]

Chrome is way better! Everybody likes flashy metal instead of weird songs from the Renaissance! Plus it's a better browser:P

[Guillermo]

I went from Internet Explorer to Safari and then finally to Chrome. And I like Chrome very well. Internet Explorer just had too many pop-ups and eventually it became very slow. It was OK for downloading. Now though, obviously, IE is one of the worst browsers. Safari was just too slow. Chrome is both fast and efficient. I like it a lot. Never tried Opera or Firefox, but I've heard that FF is pretty good. They boast a fast performance and good security. So if Chrome ends up messing up on me then my next option will be Firefox.

[Jhcx]

Well doesnt really matter where you go. all the main websites in face most websites all run on the 3 platforms which are largely ruled by IE or so i was reading finding it a bit hard to drag up all the history.

but heres (http://www.browserchoice.eu/BrowserChoice/browserchoice_en.htm) a good page to see different browsers. Quiet like comodo dragon myself based on the chrome platform . but it only goes 3 ways you have them working on the IE platform or chrome platform and theres another one out there.

IMO i think FF has started some sort of weight loss diet cause seems to be getting lighter and a little bit faster

[phenol]

Opera? :lol:


image (http://i.imgur.com/gCdek.jpg)

Seriously, use Firefox. Opera sucks. really badly.

The day I take advice from a brony is the day I chop my testicles off and force a 5-year-old girl to eat them.

[TheMatrix]

Opera? :lol:


image (http://i.imgur.com/gCdek.jpg)

Seriously, use Firefox. Opera sucks. really badly.

Actually, Opera is a leading browser on mobile platforms. Sure, your popular smartphone may not have it, but some lesser-known brands as well as the "dumbphones" usually ship with it.
Opera took one good turn that led to their big success: smaller memory and processor footprint.

Alas, it is not free software, so I don't use it :cool:

[phenol]

Actually, Opera is a leading browser on mobile platforms. Sure, your popular smartphone may not have it, but some lesser-known brands as well as the "dumbphones" usually ship with it.
Opera took one good turn that led to their big success: smaller memory and processor footprint.

Alas, it is not free software, so I don't use it :cool:

wat?
Opera is 100% free. I don't think there's anything that they charge for.

[Darkness.]

If I understand the post currectly. What Thomas (TheMatrix) is trying to say is that Opera is proprietary software and not free and open source software.

[TheMatrix]

wat?
Opera is 100% free. I don't think there's anything that they charge for.
See:
If I understand the post currectly. What Thomas (TheMatrix) is trying to say is that Opera is proprietary software and not free and open source software.

...and this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software).

[Beckblue]

I think chrome is better than opera, but I still hate it. I prefer to use Firefox or Firefox Nightly. I don't really see the regular Firefox using up a lot of memory, but on a PC, I don't recommend Nightly as it is a processor and memory hog.