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Disclaimer: I am a Firefox Fanboi

At work I can only use Firefox or IE so no brainer there - I use Firefox. At home I use Firefox but generally have Chrome open to play the odd Facebook game. The thing that puzzles me is I really don't notice any difference in performance between Chrome and Firefox and never have. I have a 4mb internet connection at the moment but noticed nothing different when I had 8.

The only reason I use Chrome is to play around with any HTML5 stuff and simple curiosity. With Firefox's huge add on libraries, Firebug, Tab controls etc I honestly cannot see why so much fuss is made about Chrome!

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If flash crashes, it only crashes out one tab. That's the killer feature for me with chrome.

Firefox has had plugin isolation for Flash since 3.6.4 on Windows, and Firefox 4 brings that to all platforms.

In firefox, if flash crashes, it doesn't crash any tab; just the flash element (e.g. the youtube video box becomes gray)

I noticed that and it was a very welcome addition.

The only problem is I don't remember Flash or FF crashing before, except some rare occasion. Now I see Flash crashes somewhat often.

Do you maybe have a Flash blocker installed? Flash is responsible for 100% of my browser crashes.

It's the same for Chrome.

> just the flash element (e.g. the youtube video box becomes gray)

In every tab, all flash elements become gray. I'd rather just one tab crash that parts of many tabs crashing.

The same thing happens in Chrome as in Firefox. Whenever the Flash plugin crashes for me in Chrome all Flash elements in every tag crash.

Note: Firefox used to crash the entire browser when Flash crashed so the method that Chrome and Firefox now use is an improvement.

Ah, so it's just Flash that sucks then. I'm a firefox user myself, just can't stand how Chrome looks or losing all the plugins I'm accustomed to in firefox. I just really like the idea of one process per tab for managing memory and safety.

I was a FF user until I found out Chrome was much faster with the webkit, but I'll always give Firefox a shot again if they manage to beat Chrome's speed.

Is that something new? When flash shockwave crashes (on Windows 7 at least) it takes down all instances of flash in Chrome (for me anyway). Please tell me I'm wrong or that this has changed.

Disclaimer: FF user turned chromite

I enjoy the speed and simplicity of chrome. For development work, I actually prefer the webkit DOM inspector to firebug. I was never a heavy plugin user to begin with, so firefox never tempted me much there. I think that if you're not planning on using plugins, the core browser features of chrome are more polished (again, this is just my opinion). If you're a heavy plugin user though, ff or opera is the way to go.

For me it was the speed of Chrome that made me switch. On Windows, Chrome opens faster than notepad. It's literally the fastest starting app I have.

Firefox is quite the opposite.

The difference was enough for me to forgo the whole list of extensions that I used in Firefox (this was before Chrome even had extensions)

I switched about a couple of years ago - maybe things have improved since.

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