Dec/091
Is Chrome the Best Internet Browser?
The title of best internet browser has long been given to Mozilla's Firefox - but the times, they are a-changin'. Google announced today that its Chrome browser is available for Mac and Linux, and opened it up to user customization with over 300 extensions. Marshall Kirkpatrick, the lead writer of the ReadWriteWeb blog and a self-professed Firefox fan, pronounced today that Chrome "may be the best browser on the market."
Alongside the new availability of extensions, Kirkpatrick says that Chrome is faster and more stable than Firefox. Since it runs separate processes in each new tab opened, one slow or crashing tab won't affect any of the others. Who using Firefox hasn't had to deal with a slowly-loading YouTube video affecting the rest of your tabs? I know I have. The fact that Chromium, the developer version of Chrome, can run as much as 10 times faster than Firefox is certainly persuasive.
Having tried both Firefox and Chrome, I have to admit that I'm not 100 percent sold. Yes, the Chrome interface looks awesome, especially as compared to Firefox, and the browser has been running well - even on my lumbering, past-its-prime laptop. But the fact that Chrome lacks the separate customizable search engine that is separate from the address bar that's on the top-right of my Firefox browser is, for now, a deal-breaker. What do you think? Are there any features exclusive to either Firefox or Chrome that you can't live without? Or are you just looking for a fast, reliable browser?
December 14th, 2009
..guess it’s too early to decide, yet. Sure chrome has a crisp and sexy interface but there’s something about Firefox and i don’t think it’s plain nostalgia