{"id":2142,"date":"2010-11-10T22:40:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2010-11-10T22:40:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:40:29","slug":"s-firefox-chrome-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/11\/10\/s-firefox-chrome-g\/","title":{"rendered":"s\/Firefox\/Chrome\/g"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2145\" title=\"Google Chrome Ball\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/google-chrome-ball.jpg\" alt=\"Google Chrome Ball\" width=\"200\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/google-chrome-ball.jpg 200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/google-chrome-ball-150x146.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>A few weeks ago I decided to give Chrome a good ride on my main machine, a Debian Linux unstable. I use it a lot, every day, and I of course use my browser during a large portion of my time in front of it. I&#8217;m a long time Firefox fan and when I&#8217;ve heard and read other people converting I&#8217;ve always thought it&#8217;d be hard for me due to my heavy use of certain plugins, old habits and so on.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, in Debian lingo the browsers are actually called Chromium and Iceweasel, but I&#8217;ve decided to ignore that fact in this post.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story on how it went, what&#8217;s good with Chrome and what&#8217;s lacking in comparison to Firefox. As compared on my Linux box here.<\/p>\n<h2>Obvious benefints:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Less wasted window\/screen estate. The tabs up in the window title is brilliant.<\/li>\n<li>Faster. It&#8217;s generally faster in almost every aspect, but what&#8217;s most\u00c2\u00a0noticeable\u00c2\u00a0is when starting it.<\/li>\n<li>Less memory hungy. At times I&#8217;ve found my Firefox installation to spend an annoying amount of my precious RAM (I have 4GB installed) and even though I would expect Chrome&#8217;s a process-per-tab concept to be more expensive memory wise, I&#8217;ve had less such problems with it.<\/li>\n<li>The unified address\/search bar, back to how\u00c2\u00a0Firefox\u00c2\u00a0once had it, is only sensible.<\/li>\n<li>In my\u00c2\u00a0Firefox\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve had two minor quirks for a while that have annoyed me: 1) when I start to search for something, I get a few seconds &#8220;freeze&#8221; immediately after I&#8217;ve started searching. Like I enter a few letters, waaaaaaait, then I can continue. This is certainly nothing life-threatening or something I can&#8217;t live through but it is annoying. 2) I occasionally get problems with flash video playbacks that the video pause or studder, most often a few seconds into it. Chrome has not given me these quirks.<\/li>\n<li>Mailman! I administrate more than 20 mailing lists on the same host (<a href=\"http:\/\/cool.haxx.se\/\">cool.haxx.se<\/a>) using mailman. Each list has i<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2146\" title=\"Firefox Ball\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/firefox-ball-200.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox Ball\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/firefox-ball-200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/firefox-ball-200-150x144.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>ts own URL and its own password. <em>But Firefox just cannot remember them separately!!!<\/em> These are pages I visit several times each day to ack or reject posts etc. Chrome remembers the passwords excellently for all the individual lists. This makes me a much happier person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Problems I didn&#8217;t get:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The adblock version for Chrome is as good. I&#8217;m not sure exactly how well they compare but I haven&#8217;t noticed anything that&#8217;s given me reason to get annoyed.<\/li>\n<li>The resizeable text edit areas in Chrome is excellent and removes the need for some of the fancier edit plugins in Firefox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Things still nicer in Firefox:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I love the plugin to force unknown content-types to still be displayed by the browser. Far too many resources are still done using the wrong one and Chrome&#8217;s only option is to save it locally and then force me to run a local tool to display the file. Sure, it works fine but when I want to do that on many files it gets tedious.<\/li>\n<li>In general Chrome, is a bit worse at handing content it doesn&#8217;t know about. I&#8217;ve managed to fiddle with my <em>\/etc\/mozpluggerrc<\/em> so that at least PDFs are now saved instead of saying &#8220;missing plug-in&#8221; but so far I&#8217;ve failed to get evince to display them directly. Even if it still is possible to make it happen, it is certainly a bit quirky to have to manually edit a text file to make it happen&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be running Chrome here now for a while!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I decided to give Chrome a good ride on my main machine, a Debian Linux unstable. I use it a lot, every day, and I of course use my browser during a large portion of my time in front of it. I&#8217;m a long time Firefox fan and when I&#8217;ve heard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/11\/10\/s-firefox-chrome-g\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">s\/Firefox\/Chrome\/g<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,45],"tags":[292,150,86],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floss","category-web","tag-chrome","tag-debian","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}