Firefox => Chrome

written by djm, on Sep 16, 2009 9:40:00 AM.

I have just switched from Firefox to Chrome as my default browser on my Linux workstation and, wow. Chrome feels much faster than FF3.5 and despite it still being a beta has been very stable. It has actually been more stable than FF: evil stupid necessary Flash actually works now, where it was totally flaky on FF and would require frequent browser restarts to recover from the plugin crashing. The only things that I really miss are replacements for Flashblock, LiveHTTPHeaders and some nice way to quickly switch proxies. Oh, and if anyone is listening, an OpenBSD port would be great too.

Disclosure: I work for Google, but I don’t speak for them.

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> The only things that I really miss are replacements for Flashblock “The only things this digital camera is missing are support for transferring the photos to a computer, …” “The only things this email software is missing are support for POP3 and…” A web browser without FlashBlock (or some equivalent) is not a useful item in 2009. It’s worse than not having popup blocking. In 2001, sure, you could just uninstall the Flash plugin from your computer. In the last couple of years, however, the number of useful sites that require it for core content has exploded to the point where that’s really no longer a viable option. Flash *without* FlashBlock, of course, was never an option. That makes the web totally unusable as tens of thousands of horrifically gratuitous blinky flashy smarmy animated *things* (advertisements, mostly) take over completely. No thanks. So a web browser without FlashBlock technology is kind of pointless.

Comment by Jonadab the Unsightly One — Dec 11, 2009 11:55:03 PM | # - re

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