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Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13 by wvenable on Friday May 11, 2012 @11:15AM (#3959621)
I'm a die-hard Firefox user; can't live without tab mix plus but Chrome is significantly faster rendering my web application than Firefox or IE. We recommend it to all our customers for that reason -- the difference is striking.

Our application is not JavaScript heavy but it does contain a lot of HTML.

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Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13 by Derbasti on Friday May 11, 2012 @01:58PM (#3960435)
I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few weeks ago. Yes, Chrome is noticeably faster for every rendering task. In particular, it's nice that single tabs don't slow down the whole browser.

In the end though, both work fine and I don't mind the difference in speed too much.

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Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13 by wvenable on Friday May 11, 2012 @03:03PM (#3960766)
Why the switch? I don't imagine there are too many people switching from Chrome to Firefox. I simply can't live without the features I've gotten used to, but if I didn't know any better I'd probably just stick with Chrome.
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Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13 by Derbasti on Friday May 11, 2012 @05:41PM (#3961566)
For some reason, my main Chrome installation broke (kept resetting itself every few days). Also, I became fed up with sending all my settings, bookmarks and history to Google.

So I tried Opera. It had a few quirks which ultimately threw me off too much. Hence, Firefox. It does not annoy me (much). That is all I ask from good software.

Also, Firefox syncing is quite amazing.

Divorcing myself from Google is still in progress though, with maps and calendar being the last holdouts.

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Re:Getting snappy – performance optimisations in Firefox 13 by Nick_C on Saturday May 12, 2012 @11:17PM (#3965916)
I switched a few months ago and am pretty happy, once you find the right addons.

The reason I switched was some niggling privacy concerns and then discovering that google-chrome won't allow Ghostery to block doubleclick.

Firefox with:

  adblock-plus, 
  ghostery, 
  noscript, 
  requestpolicy, 
  refcontrol and 
  cookiemonster
addresses all the privacy concerns. Then:

  add to searchbar,
  customizable shortcuts,
  duplicate in tab context menu,
  firegestures,
  open link in ..., and 
  sessionmanager
give me pretty much the same UX as I had in google-chrome.
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