Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’

After all the commotion over Google’s Chrome browser subsided, I quietly switched back to primarily using Firefox for my internet browsing needs. Yes, Chrome has a nice logo and yes, Chrome was “made” by Google. However Firefox is still the grandparent of open-source fast and secure internet browser technology and Chrome quite honestly is a collection of pre-existing open source code, the bulk of whose was from Firefox.

There are still quite a few bugs in Chrome I would like to see ironed out before it because the click of choice in the startmenu. Of course, there are times when I need more than one browser open at a time, for example if I want to access two Facebook accounts at once, or two Gmail accounts at once. But when that is not the case that I will most likely be using Firefox.

I need not mention Internet Explorer, for it is but a thing of the past. The only use Internet Explorer has is for testing scripts that in more secure browsers wouldn’t be allowed to run at all (mainly VBscript and Javascript).

In conclusion, the gist of this passage is that I still prefer Firefox over Google Chrome.

Alright, I have in the past few days discussed how I was insatiably excited for Google’s new Chrome web browser. Today all I have to say is that it is no better than Firefox. We all know Google made Chrome using open source code including Mozilla’s, and we all know that Google Chrome supposedly is a step closer towards a Web OS. However after using it for a day I have encountered quite a few problems and have missed any major improvements in speed or usability. Chrome also has instances of freezing or displaying a web page wrongly (such as the upper right hand corner of my blog); Firefox has no such scruples. I still am a fan of Mozilla, a basically non for profit organization who makes all of their money for allowing Google to be the default search (approximately 80 percent of their income). Mozilla will still draw more devout GNU support based on it’s opus understanding of the value of free software and countering inefficiencies found in other web browsers.