Is Chrome the Best Browser? - Comments Page 3

I have used Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Ooera, Safari, Seamonkey, Maxthon, etc. For me Opera 11,52 is definitely the best overall - it is super fast, rock solid stable, full of fantastic features, and highly customizable. You can configure it to be as minimalmist or full featured as you wish, and it's speeddial is much superior to Chrome's. I find Chrome to be quite disappointing - it freezes alot and is much less stable along with being less user friendly(a little too minimalist for me). Yes Chrome keeps increasing market share because of it's massive advertising campaign, which the others don't have, including the number 1 website. Opera is in fact way down in market share, but it's so good it should be right up there with the others.

I keep the three main ones at hand on my desktop (FF, CH, and IE). I find that some pages just work better with one or the other. FF used to be my favorite, but since Mozilla started updating versions some time back, FF slows down to a stall after a while on line. IE is just too busy with itself and slows down anything I do. Chrome just about fits my needs, but could use a different address bar (good for typing and searching but not for copying and pasting javascripts) with a "goto" button or something.
So, I find I need the three depending on the page I am visiting.

I have used Chrome exclusively since it first came out -but am getting very tired of Flash freezing it.

Thanks Bob, great article.I agree with you that there is no "best" browser or that Chrome is the best.Whenever "fanboyism" enters the field ,most objectivity is lost.Maybe people like to look at all the complaints about Chrome crashing, which was also my experience, especially on trying to save a downloaded file to a folder.But there are many other reasons too ,see http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/label?lid=3534bfada77d07a9&hl=en
I'm like Michael Meder who posted on Nov23-2011, who uses most browsers, but favorite is Opera.He uses them as tools and whatever works best for a job,that's the one used most.Exactly my sentiment.
For me it turns out to be Opera,but I'm not putting down any browsers,including IE. Each has its own pros and cons.

I develop web sites. Chrome is the best for that.

Good one Bob! Yes there is no perfect browser but Chrome seems to be the best around. One glitch that I find annoying is that I can't save videos from e.g. youtube. I could do that with FF's Video DownloadHelper. I am sure there must be a way. Why oh why has IE become so obsolete. Its the browser we all learnt to use the internet with, so that is sad.

I used to like FF, but it WAS a memory hog big time - 8.01 seems to have fixed that. CHROME is good, but sometimes it doesn't paint a page correctly AND, AND, AND I think it is tracking what I do!?

I don't like how it updates itself w/o my permission.

I use IRON Browser by SRWare. It's just like Google Chrome with the privacy concerns removed. Google reports alot of things about your browsing for advertisers. Iron removes all those and is blazing fast. They even have a Portable version which I use. Just make a folder, DL it, unzip and make a shortcut to your desktop of the Iron icon and its ready to go.

Oops, here's the link to Iron.
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

Interesting article Bob. My browser of choice is Firefox which works well on my system running XP and is really quick. I also have Opera which I use occasionally and which now runs really fast since I installed Adblock. Just recently I have installed Comodo Dragon which uses Chromium technology but with all the privacy and security associated with Comodo whose firewall I swear by, and I have to say I'm very impressed. It's as fast as Firefox and doesn't use much in the way of resources. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this last one.

You cant beat Firefox for add-ons & extensions. Thats why I use it. I also have Opera which i like because it is fast and stable.

Good article. I have used Chrome for a quite a while now. Less annoyances and wasted space! I appreciate being able to use the address bar as a search engine, I use the translate feature, and always use the quick links on the main page. Some sites don't work or work well, on Chrome, so I'll switch over to any of the others when that happens.

I am the IT director for a small school system. We have found that something in Firefox and Chrome allows students to bypass our Kerio WinRoute firewall/filter. Kerio seems unable to correct this problem. For that reason, we do not allow students or teachers to download/install anything but IE.

Chrome is the best for me. I do web design so test with a number of browsers, but my main one is Google Chrome. Also, I use the Google Cloud extensively so Chrome is designed for me. Chrome is not without some problems, but is the best for me and I recommend it to all my friends.

Don

I'm a heavy Google user, so I live in Chrome. I'm also a Linux user, so IE is not a real option in Linux. One of the things I really appreciate about Firefox (in Linux) is that I can use a Citrix client to call back to my work network resources. As far as I know, Chrome doesn't support Citrix clients. In Windows or Linux, Chrome is primary.

Good article, but I have to say that I am a true fan of Chrome, I have a HP Media Center PC and its about 6 years old, and I'm still hanging on to XP SP3. I have tried all the browsers you mention and I get the best speed from Chrome going thru their server at 8.8.8.8. I have a cable service from my ISP and it really is fast. Thank you Bob and keep the good articles coming

I tried Chrome earlier this year but got tired of the "Chrome didn't shut down correctly" warning every time I launched it. So I went back to my beloved Firefox.

I use FF and I like the fact that FF now syncs all of your favorites, passwords, etc... across multiple computers with the use of a sync key.

I'm reluctant of even giving a try to Chrome for privacy reasons.

If you think that Microsoft is intruding and invasive, what about a company which has a near-monopoly on search, is inescapable when you use mail or blogs, and has been on the record saying, basically, that privacy was a thing of the past ?

I use very little of Google's services apart from search and blog comments, and I'm already quite annoyed by their seemingly unavoidable nosiness.

Maybe Chrome can protect your privacy against others, but can it protect your privacy against Google ? Any thoughts welcome.

I started using Chrome back in 2010 (around June). My reason for this was that our help desk software was running sluggish using IE. Using Chrome, the help desk software worked great though didn't display the same as IE, however it was much faster and usable.

As a test, I tried using our healthcare software with Chrome and it did not do so well --- not a surprise due to the custom html and java script the healthcare software is written in.

At home, I used Chrome for many things but when I tried it for my online college classes (Blackboard system), it did not work well at all. Now I use Firefox and have been happy.

There are features in Firefox that I find I am using more as I get used to it (6 months now). Right-clicking on a link and pressing a 't' for a new tab or 'w' for a new window is nice and intuitive --- IE is not. I don't even remember what IE uses for those functions.

However, I am still using version 3 of Firefox as version 4 does not work for my college Blackboard system (I haven't tried version 5 yet).

There are other features or plugins I really like with Firefox, cache (about:cache), history, and others.

I might try Chrome again sometime but I will not use IE except for designing and testing web pages --- of course I still use IE and sometimes Chrome for that also as well as different versions of IE.

The last update to IE 8 on our new Win7 laptop was sluggish and caused some issues with certain web pages --- I was not happy with that at all but it still stays.