Dumping Firefox

Scarpia · October 22, 2010, 10:25:19 AM

Anyway, been using Chrome more or less exclusively since I started this thread, I see no reason to return to Firefox.

Benji · October 22, 2010, 10:34:50 AM

Quote from: Scarpia on October 22, 2010, 10:25:19 AM
Anyway, been using Chrome more or less exclusively since I started this thread, I see no reason to return to Firefox.

I made the jump to Chrome a month ago being fed up of waiting minutes for FF to load. Chrome loads in a few seconds, and is ready to rock and roll pretty much straight away.

But yeah, i'm concerned about the ads thing - the ads I see on this forum are all for a certain online clothes company I am having an ongoing back and forth complaint volley with using my, yep you guessed it, Gmail account.

But whatever - at least you know Google know stuff about you and show you they do. That's somewhat transparent.... $:-\$

Scarpia · October 22, 2010, 10:42:35 AM

Quote from: Benji on October 22, 2010, 10:34:50 AMBut yeah, i'm concerned about the ads thing - the ads I see on this forum are all for a certain online clothes company I am having an ongoing back and forth complaint volley with using my, yep you guessed it, Gmail account.

But whatever - at least you know Google know stuff about you and show you they do. That's somewhat transparent.... $:-\$

I don't think that is completely unique to Chrome. Using Firefox I found ads were very well targeted to my on-line shopping habits, due to the on-line add companies keeping track of what web pages I was visiting when were showing me ads. Does Chrome has specific support for this technique built in?

Benji · October 22, 2010, 10:45:47 AM

Quote from: Scarpia on October 22, 2010, 10:42:35 AM
I don't think that is completely unique to Chrome. Using Firefox I found ads were very well targeted to my on-line shopping habits, due to the on-line add companies keeping track of what web pages I was visiting when were showing me ads. Does Chrome has specific support for this technique built in?

I honestly don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was the case. I never saw any ads on Firefox as I had the Adblock plugin.

Which reminds me to check if Chrome has that plugin available and..... it does. Excuse me whilst I go back to blissful ignorance.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom

Benji · October 22, 2010, 10:47:18 AM

And it works. Install the plugin, didn't even need to reload Chrome - refresh the tab and the ads are gone.

DavidW · October 22, 2010, 11:54:52 AM

I see some complaints here about ff being a memory hog. It only takes 200 megs of ram for me, and I have 3 gigs available on two year old pc so it's not a problem, and the standard these days is 4 gigs. Are you guys running legacy hardware? I've tried IE, Chrome, FF and Opera and they all run the same for me. Not any one is significantly faster than another. FF is the least secure, which is indisputable since it can't run in a lower user mode like IE and Chrome can without significant tweaking. But these claims that Chrome is much faster doesn't hold water with my personal experience, nor does it hold water with the benchmark tests I've seen online. $:-\$

Benji · October 22, 2010, 12:06:06 PM

Quote from: DavidW on October 22, 2010, 11:54:52 AM
I see some complaints here about ff being a memory hog. It only takes 200 megs of ram for me, and I have 3 gigs available on two year old pc so it's not a problem, and the standard these days is 4 gigs. Are you guys running legacy hardware? I've tried IE, Chrome, FF and Opera and they all run the same for me. Not any one is significantly faster than another. FF is the least secure, which is indisputable since it can't run in a lower user mode like IE and Chrome can without significant tweaking. But these claims that Chrome is much faster doesn't hold water with my personal experience, nor does it hold water with the benchmark tests I've seen online. $:-\$

I'm only saying faster to load though - I couldn't tell you if if Chrome is faster to serve up pages or not - it seems no different to FF. But then FF was bloated with plugins, the loading time might be my own doing.

DavidW · October 22, 2010, 12:07:47 PM

Quote from: Benji on October 22, 2010, 12:06:06 PM
I'm only saying faster to load though - I couldn't tell you if if Chrome is faster to serve up pages or not - it seems no different to FF. But then FF was bloated with plugins, the loading time might be my own doing.

Haha yeah my sister had like 10 addons and it would take a long time to load!

drogulus · October 22, 2010, 02:15:38 PM

I can't copy and paste in Minefield (FF 4pre) so now I'm posting on Namoroka (3.6pre). I started using alphas and betas many years ago and I just keep updating to the latest and buggiest versions. Why?... I don't know why.

DavidW · October 22, 2010, 02:53:09 PM

You know Ernie that is extremely nerdie that you know the codenames for FF releases!

drogulus · October 22, 2010, 04:26:40 PM

I read spy novels, too. Minefield = Mozilla secret plan to control the internet and blow up enemy browsers.

RJR · January 29, 2011, 08:36:37 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 01, 2010, 02:41:54 PM
♫ They see you when you're sleeping,
They know when you're awake . . . .

Does this mean that they all work for Santa Claus? Is he the real number one?

drogulus · January 30, 2011, 10:54:20 AM

I was looking for a YouTube download program yesterday, found a free one and installed it, and found that I couldn't make it work. Not only that, but after I uninstalled it I found that an extension had been installed in both my Firefox versions, called Search Engine Optimizer. This is a nasty piece of work. It caused my AdBlock Plus extensions to vanish (now why, I pretend to wonder, would it want to do that?) but it had no remove button like an honest extension should have. I had to go into my browser profiles and dig it out by hand.

Opus106 · January 30, 2011, 09:22:54 PM

Quote from: drogulus on January 30, 2011, 10:54:20 AM
I was looking for a YouTube download program yesterday

Get VideoDownloadHelper for Fx.

drogulus · January 31, 2011, 12:50:02 AM

Quote from: Opus106 on January 30, 2011, 09:22:54 PM
Get VideoDownloadHelper for Fx.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Later....this addon looks good. My DL speeds are slow, though. Then again HQ streaming has always been a problem for me, so maybe this is what I should expect.