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

PY 14 years, 1 month ago

Kilin: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2502059/Misc/ffox.png

I'm the sort of person who'll remove window chrome for the additional 15px, and as far as I know, I can't achieve any of that on gChrome.

Castypher 14 years, 1 month ago

You remind me a lot of Serprex. An obsession with simplicity and efficiency. I almost want to say that's where you got it from.

Compared to Firefox, Chrome is still new. Sure there are things to work out, but Firefox was just constantly crashing. Good job for keeping yours healthy (the only addons I had were FireFTP and ChatZilla). I still keep Firefox on hand though.

But I swear, when Chrome came out, I thought you were one of the ones saying you loved it. That was also a long time ago.

PY 14 years, 1 month ago

perhaps, but nowhere near to the same degree as serprex. I certainly wouldn't go with minimalism over functionality, I just don't see the need of having a heavy UI when I never use it. The window chrome is worthless to me because I have an autohotkey script providing actually decent window management, and FF's chrome is worthless to me because Vimperator. Having said that, I do like minimalism a lot, no sense not making the most of what you've got.

Scott_AW 14 years, 1 month ago

I've switched to chrome, I have no regrets.

Infinity_Plus 14 years, 1 month ago

Chrome = Win. Is this site developed for Chrome? I guess I've never really thought about it.

I've always been a Safari junkie, too, even though I use a PC.

Ferret 14 years, 1 month ago

I rarely had crashing problems on FF, but maybe thats because I'm pretty spoiled when it comes to internet speed. Unlike RC I don't really need to rely on cache so I run and exit my browser quite frequently.

I think both the UI in FF and Chrome are great, but I'm really liking how the tabs are in the window's bar at the top, leaving more room for me. I HATE toolbars, with a passion, so something like this makes me happy. (the only toolbar I have besides the address bar is bookmarks)

I'm getting a little annoyed with the images extending through text, if I refresh it fixes it's self, but it's still pretty annoying.

I am really really really pissed off about the animated gifs in Chrome. Now I've noticed gifs like PY's and Mazimadu's are running just normally, but RamboFox's is walking so slow ;_; I don't know why just his, and on other sites I often see the same thing. I took Rambo's avatar and tried to redefine the gif speed but it still ran slow in chrome. That is something that really needs to get fixed.

I guess I'm the only one getting those FF image stretches… Idk why it happens, but it doesn't in Chrome.

Infinity_Plus 14 years, 1 month ago

I thought he was walking slow because its supposed to be a zombie? Maybe I misunderstood…

BP Scraps 14 years, 1 month ago

Off Topic: Ferret, why do you not have a Halloween avatar yet? Why Ferret why?

Ferret 14 years, 1 month ago

@What Infinity+ said: See what I mean?!? Completely ruins the artist's perspective on how they wanted their final result to look like! >:l

@Qwilderwibben: Well I'm kinda lazy, trying to make a halloween game, and I wouldn't know what to do.

BP Scraps 14 years, 1 month ago

Quote:
@Qwilderwibben: Well I'm kinda lazy, trying to make a halloween game, and I wouldn't know what to do.

Well, you could make a..

DEMON-VAMPIRE-WEREWOLF-ZOMBIE-APE-FERRET FROM MONGOLIA!

But that's just a suggestion, don't let it color your opinions.