For the past 3 months I have
almost exclusively used Chrome as the browser. I did have a few things I liked about it, but really the annoyances are too much! (Sorry,
+Les Jenkins )
Earlier, I posted that Chrome was riddled with bugs and not ready for full use as a replacement for IE. Meanwhile I have exclusively (
almost but I'll explain in a bit) been using Firefox for years.
Chrome, Almost
With Chrome, I have been using it for a variety of web sites. Here is what I experienced:
- Google Calendar - They seem to have fixed whatever issues I had from my earlier post
- Google Voice - Still fussy - basically what would happen is a) on drop-down lists it would not let me pick a value from the list unless I arrow down and press Enter on the keyboard. Now, that seems to work, but after a while of keeping the Voice page open, making calls says it is working, but it doesn't connect unless I close out the tab page and re-open it.
- Facebook - OK, I admit Facebook must hire the cheapest programmers, because their iOS and web apps SUCK SUCK SUCK. They are horrible. Even though, I have had pretty good reliability with it on Firefox. On Chrome, it just hangs the whole tab and I have to close it out.
- Many of our corporate sites that work great with Firefox, I have strange Chrome issues:
- Won't display login or registration forms correctly
- Won't display all the elements of web pages
- Sites authored to work with Internet Explorer, like some of my corporate sites, of course have issues. So, I use the IE Tab plug-in for those.
Firefox, Almost
So, when I say
almost with Firefox, what I mean is, it works on EVERY site, except:
- Sites authored to work with Internet Explorer, like some of my corporate sites, of course have issues. So, I use the IE Tab plug-in for those.
What bugs me the most about Firefox?
- It isn't really that fast any more - Chrome is definitely faster on Windows 7, Mac OS X, and about the same on Ubuntu Linux.
- Constant updates - it is constantly downloading updates, restarting the browser, and checking plug-in compatibility. Annoying.
- No iOS browser! The Chrome iOS is really good, I especially like the way it handles tabs.
However, I think I can handle the peeves with Firefox. I cannot handle the constant crashing, not handling input fields and page rendering, and the general flakiness of Chrome.
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