Not sure where this post should go. I am increasingly becoming dissatisfied with Firefox browser and starting to switch to Google Chrome. It just seems faster less bogged down. I don't think it is my imagination. Especially with FB games it is so sluggish. Wondered what others experience is. Even tried the "unplugging the internet" for 30 seconds to clear internet Temp files and it still seems slow and picks up in Google Chrome.

I've used Chrome since the beta, and have loved it. Firefox is just to bulky and I really don't even use the add-ons.

got ie and firefox side by side and its painfully slow compared to ie and thats not exactly known for its speed.

"with FB games"


Ugh.


Now, moving on.


Chrome is faster in many ways. Firefox tends to slow down based on the amount of add-ons and some settings, as well as what versions of certain software you are using. Chrome handles many of those updates in the background.

The main reason why people stick with firefox is the addons of course. Mainly noscript and adblock. Chrome has variants of these too, but they do not work the same. Noscript blacklists all javascript code and lets you choose which to whitelist. This has a sideeffect of blocking googles analytics package as well as any XSS attack attempts. Obvious, since google made chrome they wouldn't want it to be able to do this. Adblock in firefox stops ads from loading, adblock in chrome stops them from being displayed, which means an add containing an attack would still be downloaded but not shown to you.


Googles sandboxing mode takes care of many of these issues. If privacy is a large concern of yours firefox still cant be beat, but chrome is fast, updated often, and has many cutting edge features. Probably the only browser close to chrome in speed is opera(its actually faster in some benchmarks)

Could also be your machine too Iowa, Chrome runs different tabs in different threads, unlike ff which runs them all in 1 thread. Depending on your machine and your Operating System ff might slow down in a multi tabbed environment a bunch worse.


And FF has never played nice with FB.

Thanks everyone. Didn't think it was my imagination.


Ya, I know William. FB games. Quit and started again. Mainly because they are really mindless fun. You know fun? Guess we all have our own brand of fun. Trying to recover some childhood fun. Seems like I went from being a kid straight to being an adult. Missed something in between.

Personally I had no problem with FF until a XULRunner error caused it to blue screen my comp and then be unusable, then I discovered that opera has a ad block/no script add on in the works. Opera 11 alpha, here I come.