So I switched to chrome

Posted by Ferret on Oct. 27, 2010, 4:31 p.m.

Now I know I have already made about 2 blogs already about Fire Fox and Chrome, and usually with me siding with FireFox.

Recently I had been getting pretty annoyed with some of the quirks that happen with FireFox and loading images, sometimes they would be slightly blurred and sometimes they would be extended by an extra row/column of pixels. Image examples below:17264

I got pretty annoyed seeing those strange anomalies so I decided to download chrome and see if they were there as well. Nope. And I was also happy to see that they got rid of that ugly blue bar at the top that my school computers seem to be cursed with (that or it's because they are winXP). So I decided to stick with it for a while and was pretty happy. Despite what Chrome is advertised for, I don't notice any significant difference in the load speed. But recently I have noticed that chrome has quirks of it's own :(

And a huge problem that I am having is that some of the animated gifs are running slower. I think RamboFox's avatar is one of the cutest things I have ever seen, but in chrome he looks like he is slowly taking steps while making clear jumps from frame to frame. >:l

Maybe some of these are just oddities that have to be dealt with by the web designer…

FireFox had a lot more add-ons; I miss the simplicity of using chatzilla (although I'm finding mIRC pretty cool), though I was able to find a pretty useful eyedropper extension that does pretty much the equivalent of what my FireFox add-on did.

For now I'm going to continue to use Chrome, and may switch back if I find too many annoyances.

Also, Chrome lets me resize text boxes; pretty useful for typing blogs in 64Digits's small text box.

Also also, notice that in chrome when you highlight from right to left it skips the character you started on? (on input text only) (It became a habit for me to highlight right to left to avoid the endline character)

Also also also, I wuv you :3

Comments

Cesar 14 years, 1 month ago

It might just be because I use 8.0.552.18, but I don't see that many problems. Only one that's noticeable is the images superimposing over the text. That's kind of irritating at times.

Castypher 14 years, 1 month ago

Chrome will screw up images for me occasionally, but Firefox pisses me off even more.

BP Scraps 14 years, 1 month ago

I downloaded Chrome on my other comp a while back, and I have to say, I really like it. One of the best things about it is Chromed Bird, a Twitter app. I first saw RC use it, and I decided to try it out. I have to say, it's pretty awesome.

About those bugs, I've never seen them before, maybe it's the comp.

Glen 14 years, 1 month ago

Welcome. We have been waiting for you.

sirxemic 14 years, 1 month ago

I've never seen those bugs of FF and I've never seen those other bugs of Chrome.

It's just your computer :3

RC 14 years, 1 month ago

Welcome to Club Chromium!

I've been using Chrome for almost a year now. What drove me to use it was Firefox's constant crashing which cleared my cache every time. Do you know how long it takes a website to load on dial-up if it isn't in your cache? :(

Anyway, I have those "problems" too with Chrome, but they don't really bother me much. The picture-text overlapping usually fixes itself once the page fully loads (for me, at least), and since RawrSpoon says the other ones don't happen for him and he's using the beta(?), maybe they've been resolved.

death 14 years, 1 month ago

doesn't happen to me at all [in regards to your firefox problems]

Cesar 14 years, 1 month ago

RC:

6 - Stable

7 - Beta

8 - Developer's

I originally got the Dev version because plugins were first introduced in it and it just keeps updating itself to the newest version :P

Majatek 14 years, 1 month ago

Darn incompatibilites…

Frankly, I've never tried Chrome - but I do understand that IE is crap, FireFox is not as good as it used to be - so I went and downloaded SeaMonkey.

I like my SeaMonkey alot.

:3

Josea 14 years, 1 month ago

I switched to chrome mainly because of the UI and speed, firefox has started to feel bloated and outdated.