I keep my heart close to Safari. They've been making some beautiful progress. Safari's built in web inspector is coming close to being just as good as Firebug.
sarahintampa
· 5 months ago
I totally agree - Chrome is incredible! It's my default browser now.
achernow
· 5 months ago
I've nearly given up on Firefox, in favor of Safari. Not only is it faster on the Mac, but the bookmarks will sync between it and Mobile Safari on my iPhone. Thunderbird is the same way, too. I only use it on Windows & Linux machines now. On my 2 Macs, I use Mail.app because it is faster, and it'll use the Mac's Universal Address Book (which is synced with Mobile Me, which syncs wirelessly with the iPhone)
I mean...there's a few things I miss. Like Greasemonkey, and being able to use "/" to initiate a search. (I use vi as my text-editor of choice, so that seems like a logical key to me, versus, Command+F)
Now, on Windows & Linux, I've still been using Firefox. Though, I've been using Konquer on my Netbook a bit more than Firefox.
-Adam
spinchange
· 5 months ago
Very articulate post! I feel the same way. You should take a look at the new Opera too. I've fallen in love with it. Fast, stable, feature rich. It's real 'software'
gr33ndata
· 5 months ago
Same here, Firefox is getting really heavy and forces me to restart the whole PC every now and then, and similar to you, my only reason to continue using Firefox is that there are no Del.icio.us, FoxNotes, and Download Them All plugins for Chrome :(
heather_45
· 5 months ago
I find that Firefox 3.5 works good with plugins that many blogs have installed
backlinks
· 5 months ago
No, they just havent brought anything new to the table in a long time.
Mark O'Neill
· 5 months ago
I have had serious screaming matches with Firefox since the beginning of this year. As you said, it crashes a LOT and it hogs a LOT of memory and I was restarting Firefox around once an hour / 90 minutes, which is completely ridiculous.
I have Chrome installed as well but I can't quite make the complete switch over because of the Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey scripts I need to use.
Why can't Google work out that extensions and scripts are probably the one thing stopping people from completely switching over? If they worked hard on this area of Chrome, I reckon LOTS of people would then switch over 100% and Firefox would be in trouble.
Jake Bennett
· 5 months ago
Running Google Chrome all day long. Google Gears built in for added Google Apps juice (waved goodbye to MS long ago) and have now stopped using Firefox. No more *bloat* but I do miss the del.icio.us side bar.
krazyche3to
· 5 months ago
Firefox 3.5 is better than the previous ones, but I totally am faithful to Google Chrome now. Waiting for the Chrome OS, it's only time that the browser is super speed thanks to the OS (oh, and an added bonus it won't be slowed down as much as my current Vista is). I use Firefox for my FTP support, but that may soon change since it's becoming a hassle just to open Firefox (okay, not hassle.. but it seems like an eternity compared to Chrome!!)
Julie Tarr
· 5 months ago
Am I the only one who has not experienced any issues with FF? I sometimes leave FF open for days and have never experienced any of the problems you mentioned. Now IE on the other hand...heck I can't even open it anymore since the upgrade to IE8, which is fine with me as I solely use FF (but there is a website that works a little better in IE, but I just live with it in FF). I haven't tried Chrome yet, but maybe one day I will check it out ;)
barbfmc
· 4 months ago
I've got Safari and Firefox on my IMAC. The latest iteration of Safari has really slowed me down if I'm working over hours. Firefox doesn't. I've been using Firefox quite a bit lately to avoid the Safari hangs. Right now, sounds as though it's an OS thing.
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I mean...there's a few things I miss. Like Greasemonkey, and being able to use "/" to initiate a search. (I use vi as my text-editor of choice, so that seems like a logical key to me, versus, Command+F)
Now, on Windows & Linux, I've still been using Firefox. Though, I've been using Konquer on my Netbook a bit more than Firefox.
-Adam
I have Chrome installed as well but I can't quite make the complete switch over because of the Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey scripts I need to use.
Why can't Google work out that extensions and scripts are probably the one thing stopping people from completely switching over? If they worked hard on this area of Chrome, I reckon LOTS of people would then switch over 100% and Firefox would be in trouble.