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s continue unchanged, Chrome could just possibly pass Internet Explorer in 2012 to become the world’s most popular browser.

s as measured by the Ireland-based Web statistics firm\'s analytics tools hold up, Chrome will pass Mozilla\'s Firefox sometime in December and trail only Microsoft\'s Internet Explorer (IE)

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[Koogle]

For all I care all other internet users could be using some other noobshit browser like spyChrome, dummIEs browser and flOpera.

As a power user, I don't see myself jumping to another browser platform that is better on all fronts than Firefox for a while..

My browser E-peen is over 9000

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ZOMG Koogle

btw. stupid ass Chrome doesn't even (still) have smoothscrolling, it feels like playing a game in 10fps when you scroll and shit.

[Koogle]

I remember when the Chrome team took months from reported beta issue to get press/release and sticky button smoothscroll working. It originally only had one method, and even then they screwed up, because invoking the smoothscroll would make the mouse cursor jump position slightly from where you initiated smoothscrolling. This was after Chrome was out in in public release..

I just don't get how anyone can screw up that kind of development when their biggest market competition is IE, a browser than has had specific stuff like that implemented to an acceptable user experience level for over a decade.

Still I'm surprised by the amount of extension development that has happened for Chrome so far, its been a bit slow, yet there some fairly comparable alternative Firefox extensions to strap onto the Chrome browser.. nothing that would make me switch... as Chrome itself has some awful designed areas and its overal performance when you start using strapons with things like switching tabs. Shows up the flaws that page rendering benchmarks hide, and its really just as bad as IE in UX dumbification, actually no that is too much of an insult to IE, as it least has some semi decent things like sidebar panels for feeds/bookmarks etc.. where cheap ass Chrome goes full retard with lets put everything into a fucking tab, options, downloads, bookmarks, etc , and yet no implemented splitting dual view setup or sidebar) total stupidification design to me really.

If there was no Firefox, I swear I would probably be using Opera or Maxthon2 (because M3 is still shit).

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I am actually using opera 11 for a few days and I find it a bit of relief that with same number of tabs opened, after 5-6 hrs it doesn't take over 1GB of ram and slows down like firefox does...oh well, I have some specific problem with firefox since version 4, I can't seem to get rid of it. It just starts clogging up the system and slows down everything. Solution? Open task manager (just that) and problem is gone. :S

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[Baconnaise]

Yea memory usage is a problem with FF. IE9 is ok but it bogs down on facebook games among other things even worse. Chrome isn't ready for prime time. They really should of kept it as a beta of sorts at most and fleshed it out more. Opera is cool but it's not FF.

I just won't take a browser a seriously anymore unless it has adblock and noscript at the least. Addons are a problem as they hog memory and slow down FF but they are worth it imo. Have you guys tried running IE or with your addons disabled? Large difference even with only two installed.

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[Koogle]

Only issue I've ever had with Firefox and bad memory hogging was an old bug in 3.5 (was fixed in 4) and that was some downloads started using firefox own download manager would be stored in ram even though it was written to .part disk file. Would cause crashes on single large files over 1gb, an odd one really.

Otherwise Firefox platform memory usage is great for what it does, and I generally have on average around over 15 tabs open all the time with Fx left open for hours, that's around 500mb taking into account 70+ extensions aswel.. that's acceptable to me, 50tabs is ~700mb of actually memory usage. And slowing down over time? nah don't get that. Though it would be down to page file getting used to make for more free memory if your system was starved of memory while some other app/game was using it.. using Firefox later would require it to hit the pagefile and bring more back into memory before it was working as fast.. like cycling through tabs instantly without any disk caching.

Also some extensions make up for their own tiny memory footprint by reducing stuff not being loaded like adblock & noscript do.

Anyway nothing to really compare here as its site and usage specific, only thing I could say is that Fx7 had more work done on memory/ performance. Personally I wouldn't switch to any other browser even if it offered 70% memory usage cut, it would undoubtedly mean a 70% feature, option, extension and customization cut aswel

http://gregor-wagner.com/

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