Firefox vs Chrome Thoughts

its been a year almost i have using both of these browsers and was trying switch to chrome and it was such a bad expereience that i finally stop trying.
without a doubt, chrome is speedy but thats only plus i found in chrome its not enough for daily use.
what confused me about chrome

  • chrome simply sucks while dealing with proxies and any big corporate has proxy / firewall setuped so its almost impossible to use this in a corporate environement. i have seen official link 100's of complains and google not paying attention to this.
  • whats the point for making google bookmarks service and then syncing bookmarks via docs. etc. and again if all of these new sync features can't work for proxy, why would i simply want to sync between office n home, where office has proxy setup......

recently firefox has announced a sync feature and i m glad it really works, helps to remove frustration...
plus amount of extras / addons that help are amazing...
may be if i kept breathing, i'll try chrome in 2011, ideally i think, if google has given that money to firefox and helped them to rewrite core or add speed thingy, that would have helped whole world more...

3 comments:

  1. I've had the exact opposite experience. chrome has dealt amazingly with proxies - in fact it deals with them dynamically. When I log into work via VPN firefox was a nightmare - I had to install extensions to manage proxies, it often didn't dynamically switch so I'd have to restart etc... chrome, I haven't even had to tell it anything. its just magically worked. My experience has been one of complete satisfaction. Oh, except that it doesn't have a good mouse gestures extension... :(

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  2. lols, the day i wrote that, my chrome, start behaving little better in accepting https links (ssl) but still using sync feature from chrome behind proxy didn't worked / sync etc..

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  3. I mainly use Firefox, but I have Chrome installed as an alternative browser. For example, in the rare case that Firefox is unable to load a web page.

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