I hope Firefox gains more momentum. I don't trust Google, I don't want them to control everything. FF 13 is fast and modern browser. Installing Ghostery, AdBlock and Firebug makes it perfect.
There are two main problems:
1. Sometimes I start FF and it tells me that its process is still running. It happens too often that I close FF and it fails to properly terminate its process. The result is that I can't open FF until I kill it in the task manager.
2. Firefox is the only browser in which Flash crashes. Almost every day I had to search for the "Plugin container for Firefox" in the task manager and manually kill it.
Today the browsers that "just work" are IE9 and Chrome. I can't use Chrome all the time because it doesn't open images in Twitter, probably because images use http and Twitter uses https. Every browser has its own little problems. Those of Firefox are too much for me.
In the end I came back to ff. All my good addons are there, they all work and if it breaks down it's way faster to kill then chrome.
Initially I tried chrome because I thought it may eat up less memory but the difference was not really big on all the chrome processes compared to the ff one.
The code is there. If they do something you don't like, you can always fork.
Openness of the code is only part of the problem.
That's the reason I prefer Mozilla over Google as an organization.
I apologize my bad argument before.
Seriously, it grew so much into me that I can't browse the web without those add-ons any more!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differen...
Edit: he got it wrong, though. The Google features of Chrome are not open source.
http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...
Coincidentally, I recently poked at Iron to determine if it includes the security and stability fixes we merge for stable releases. So, I tried to get the source code to make the analysis easier. It turns out there's no repository, and I had to wait eight hours pulling 1GB of archives from Rapidshare. When I finally opened it I found a tarball from Chrome 6, which is almost two years old (even though Iron is obviously using Chrome 18). So, I don't think the creator is very concerned about keeping up pretenses (like being an open source project) anymore.
Chrome is simply not trustworthy. Why would you get a browser from an advertising company that uses people's data to make money?
Problem solved.
Google Chrome is completely open source and can be easily compiled from the source (expect for its integrated Flash player and PDF reader). If you don't like something about it, please change it.
Chromium is.
People are using Chrome, not Chromium.
A compiled chromium source is identical to Google Chrone, except for the icon and name. Just like with Firefox.
* The Firefox logo is not released under a free license
* The Firefox name and logo are trademarked, and Mozilla has strict policies you must adhere to if you want to use them
However, you can build Firefox without using the name or logo. Requiring derived works to have different branding does not mean a program is not open source or free software.
The story of how iceweasel and friends came to exist can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622
People are using an open source browser + Flash Player + PDF Reader.
If you don't trust Google's Flash player and PDF reader, feel free to take them out. In fact, you don't have to, because using Chromium would be equivalent to doing this.