It's becoming obvious that Chrome will beat Firefox and become #2

[drag0n1]

I'm one of those 100 tabs people. I have several links to games I'm currently playing (builds, guides, info, forums, mods, etc), torrent websites, general websites I visit every day, programming websites with info for stuff I'm working on, also other random websites with information and other stuff that I want to save to come back later to. I also use a tree style tab extension that puts tabs on the side and have another extension to rename tabs. It makes organization very easy.

Arguably, you could use bookmarks. However, with tabs, everything is always there when I need it and setup in an order that I like. If I bookmarked everything, I would most likely forget about stuff or have to keep opening bookmarks one by one when I want access to all the information I need. Tabs are just convenient.

Sounds like you could use session manager add-on in firefox or inbuilt one in opera.. :blink:

[Tha Bloo Monkee]

I personally know way more people who use Firefox than Chrome, but that's just me.

[Udedenkz]

I easy rack up 30-70 tabs on imageboards. YouTube surfing gives me around five tabs. It adds up.

3.6 is quite old and outdated (well tech wise) its only patched for security holes.

try that against 4

(Watch 3.0 users are about to tackle me)

You forgot about 3.6.4 which introduced out of process plugins.

Additionally, FF4 is a slow mess at the moment and gets its ass kicked by FF3.6 in rendering and scrolling speed.

FF4 is 3000ms without hardware acceleration, 1200ms with full hardware acceleration.

[BGM]

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[+Warwagon MVC]

This thread is so boring, and spamming my inbox.. Where is the unsubscribe button on the mobile site???? :s

Very bottom of the thread :)

[Massiveterra]

bring back the navigator...you heard me right, lets bring back netscape navigator and be done with all of your rubbish browsers ;)

But if we all go back to Netscape it will eventually evolve to Firefox again, all returning full circle.

Whoa, this is starting to blow my mind :wacko:

[polyarchist]

I'm one of those 100 tabs people. I have several links to games I'm currently playing (builds, guides, info, forums, mods, etc), torrent websites, general websites I visit every day, programming websites with info for stuff I'm working on, also other random websites with information and other stuff that I want to save to come back later to. I also use a tree style tab extension that puts tabs on the side and have another extension to rename tabs. It makes organization very easy.

Arguably, you could use bookmarks. However, with tabs, everything is always there when I need it and setup in an order that I like. If I bookmarked everything, I would most likely forget about stuff or have to keep opening bookmarks one by one when I want access to all the information I need. Tabs are just convenient.

I don't get why you would risk losing all that to a power outage, etc.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

I don't get why you would risk losing all that to a power outage, etc.

Most browsers will re-open the tabs without a problem.

[polyarchist]

Most browsers will re-open the tabs without a problem.

Yeah but 100 tabs at the same time? Crash.

[Udedenkz]

Yeah but 100 tabs at the same time? Crash.

There was a bug one that, something along the lines of "load only a few tabs at a time" thing.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

Yeah but 100 tabs at the same time? Crash.

I've never had problems with Chrome recovering tabs. I don't usually push it past 35 tabs per browser instance because they get a bit hard to manage but Chrome will recover multiple instances too.

n.b. I tend to use nightly builds.

[astroXP]

When you have a modern computer, speed isn't that much of a concern.

But when you consider most end-users computers don't have that kind of set up .. then speed IS a concern.

[Xilo]

I don't get why you would risk losing all that to a power outage, etc.

Tab recovery, so it's not an issue.

Yeah but 100 tabs at the same time? Crash.

I use an extension that only loads websites when I tell it to or click an unloaded tab. So startup is basically loading a ton of empty tabs which isn't a big deal.

[Massiveterra]

Please excuse me for my ignorance, but what instance would an average person have 100 tabs open?

[Dashel]

Sure it will, Google likes Apple's you install one of our apps we'll help install all of them mentality. Most people who have a Chrome icon on their desktop (bad app behavior) don't even know what their 'browser' is, let alone able to articulate the differences.

Still, Webkit + minimal UI > FF, but FF is more stable than Chrome and without giving Google 'free' money. Until Chromium usage becomes easier I can still only recommend FF in good concience, at least until IE9 then all bets are off.

[Xilo]

Please excuse me for my ignorance, but what instance would an average person have 100 tabs open?

Read one page back...

[Fred Derf Veteran]

Please excuse me for my ignorance, but what instance would an average person have 100 tabs open?

You might have several projects on the go at once. Perhaps you are considering purchasing an Android tablet and thus you have a few pages open so you can resume where you left off the day before. You don't want to bookmark these sites because they'll be useless in a few days. Plus, Neowin. One needs to have at least one Neowin tab open at any given moment. :D Gmail also needs a tab.

I also have several tabs dedicated to newspaper articles that I would like to read and a few health-related tabs to remind me to make good choices, etc...

I find it easier to prune out old tabs than it is to prune out old bookmarks. How often have you seen somebody's computer with enough bookmarks to make the system entirely useless?

I also have a groupon tab that I refresh everyday. I have no idea why I do this as nothing is ever remotely interesting. Perhaps I'm just trying to understand the buzz.

[De.Bug]

Firefox has decent extensions. Chrome doesn't. Chrome has almost 0 customization and is extremely basic.

NOPE

Well when the browser itself is slow as s*** starting up and loading pages, it doesn't matter all that much who has the "better" extensions. Also Google Chrome's extensions are not as bad as you say. Firefox has been getting new extensions for years, Chrome is going on one year if I'm not mistaken, so you can't expect the extensions to be great.

[PCjunkie]

I would like to see the numbers get closer, keeping the dev. teams on their toes. If one or another browser falls too far down on the list they may simply put the project to sleep and this would be one less option and I like having options - competition is good.

[De.Bug]

I would like to see the numbers get closer, keeping the dev. teams on their toes. If one or another browser falls too far down on the list they may simply put the project to sleep and this would be one less option and I like having options - competition is good.

I don't think Firefox or Chrome will be "put to sleep" anytime soon.

[PCjunkie]

I don't think Firefox or Chrome will be "put to sleep" anytime soon.

...nor did I say this either, it was a general sentiment :)

Are you saying that you would be fine with 3 browser choices only - IE, FF, and Chrome? Who knows what the future may hold for these lesser used browsers, they may all be viable alternatives in time, again this is my hope.

[ViperAFK]

Sure it will, Google likes Apple's you install one of our apps we'll help install all of them mentality. Most people who have a Chrome icon on their desktop (bad app behavior) don't even know what their 'browser' is, let alone able to articulate the differences.

Still, Webkit + minimal UI > FF, but FF is more stable than Chrome and without giving Google 'free' money. Until Chromium usage becomes easier I can still only recommend FF in good concience, at least until IE9 then all bets are off.

I'm not the hugest fan of chrome, but the one thing is does extremely well IMO is its rock solid. I definitely wouldn't call it less stable than firefox. I've never once had chrome crash on me, its a very stable browser.

And doesn't using firefox give google money as well? (google search box agreement which has been mozilla's major revenue stream)

[ahhell]

That's exactly WHY it will beat Firefox. Most people want something that "just works".

:blink:

How does it "just works" if it doesn't support all the stuff that people want to use?

[Jayayess1190]

Firefox moving to faster release cycle.

[ViperAFK]

Firefox moving to faster release cycle.

Good news. This release cycle has been atrocious. As much as I hate this term, this is like mozilla's "vista" lol (in regards to long development time/constant delays).