Comments on: Enable Chrome’s Best Features in Firefox

By: Bennish

Bennish — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:18:11 +0000

Andrew you’re right, Flash is currently buggy in chrome. Safe to assume this will improve.

By: Andrew Green

Andrew Green — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:02:05 +0000

I know the benchmarks say it’s faster. But am I the first to notice that Flash rendering and framerates are noticeably slower?

By: rsgpr web directory

rsgpr web directory — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:40:51 +0000

Yeah I love it… the only downfall I have had so far is viewing photos on Facebook.. There is some sort of glitch as when you want to view the next pic in a album gallery. It will show u the next pic 4 about half a second then go back to the old pic…

By: WebTrafficROI

WebTrafficROI — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:49:31 +0000

I cannout make “Open in Google Chrome” work with Portable Google Chrome. Not sure what arguments to pass to make it use my profile.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:58:12 +0000

I’ll stick with Firefox+AdBlockPlus+NoScript+Prism until similar capabilities are added to Chrome. I suppose I could use Privoxy to replace AdBlockPlus, but manually maintained blocklists are a pain.

By: David Tangye

David Tangye — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:35:06 +0000

Now that I have read the other comments here, I should add, that irrespective of my earlier comment, it is highly unlikely that I would switch to Chrome until it has an equivalent of Adblock Plus. I have browsed for years now with NO crap on my screen. Its like free to air TV, and lately cable TV too here in Australia: I simply watch NO free to air EVER because it has far too many ads, and almost no cable because it has ads, though at least a lot less. If I cannot keep ads off my internet screen, I shall throw the whole computer away and go buy a horse.

By: David Tangye

David Tangye — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:16:44 +0000

Nice article. I am pleased that you did not try to suggest that therefore Chrome will not be worthwhile. In fact, due to its differences beneath the interface, especially in having a separate process for each task, I think it will end up being significantly better. Using multiple tabs in Chrome is technically somewhat similar to running Firefox in separate virtual machines, and using just one tab in each Firefox copy. Firefox has been a great product, and I guess will continue for a while. However, IMO, the same people who have moved to it are likely to move again to Chrome as its fundamental superiority become evident. At present the visible features you quote will probably tend delay this only temporarily.

Eventually if and when it becomes clear to developers that they can produce better extensions under Chrome that will not be effected by others’ rogue plugins – and of course its always the other develoepr’s fault ;-) – then those developers will jump onto Chrome.

By: Abir

Abir — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:27:52 +0000

Wow.

The ability to convert any site into its own application is actually very, very handy!