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Chrome vs Firefox, again

Posted by on May 25, 2010 at 8:49 pm.

Long time ago I stopped using Chrome for daily use and leave it only for my Google services like Gmail and Wave.

Now, is my main browser even when it just stop working while I’m offline (weird thing, btw). Is fast, starts fast, loads fast, runs javascript very fast. I can use websites as apps without installing another app to complement my browser like Prism and renders fonts wonderfully with @font-face.

Now, Firefox, well… First of all, I’m using nightly builds of alpha version, so it’s supposed to fail sometimes and I understand that but, it’s not supposed to be faster as well? Loads after 1 min I launch it(UPDATE 2010-05-26: There was a loop on an addon making it start slow, now starts on 10 seconds which is pretty nice) and loads not as smooth as Chrome the websites, even using NoFlash, NoAds and NoJavaScript! In fact, if wasn’t because Chrome stops working while I’m offline I would not have any reason to use Firefox even while designing websites (just for checking).

It’s a shame, I really liked a lot Firefox and I hope Firefox4 get a really good speed bump.

  • http://w.leezii.com leezii

    I use one Thinkpad X61. On this notebook, I load firefox in less than 20sec. Maybe you have too many addons installed, try new profile maybe help.

  • http://w.leezii.com leezii

    I use one Thinkpad X61. On this notebook, I load firefox in less than 20sec. Maybe you have too many addons installed, try new profile maybe help.

  • http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat Franklin Piat

    What’s the point of your rant? Did you even file a bug?

  • http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat Franklin Piat

    What’s the point of your rant? Did you even file a bug?

  • David Weinehall

    I just tested iceweasel 3.5.9 (as packaged in Debian); it starts in 2-3 seconds on my Lenovo x301. If it really takes 1 minute for you I believe you’ve either got an extremely slow computer or something seriously malconfigured.

  • David Weinehall

    I just tested iceweasel 3.5.9 (as packaged in Debian); it starts in 2-3 seconds on my Lenovo x301. If it really takes 1 minute for you I believe you’ve either got an extremely slow computer or something seriously malconfigured.

  • Mike Lothian

    I’m a chrom[e|ium] user but I’d just like to point out the alpha versions you are testing are probably development build with debugging turned on and optimisation switched off. Try switching back to something more stable and see if it runs faster (or try compiling it yourself)

  • Mike Lothian

    I’m a chrom[e|ium] user but I’d just like to point out the alpha versions you are testing are probably development build with debugging turned on and optimisation switched off. Try switching back to something more stable and see if it runs faster (or try compiling it yourself)

  • https://me.yahoo.com/ghostbar38#8e4b9 ghostbar

    @David @leezii, an addon was making it start slow :-) Now starts on 10 seconds with all the other addons.

    @Franklin, don’t need to, I always do it with Firefox built-in tool and always report the Broken Webs and all with the new releases. It’s not a rant, is a well deserved critic.

    Firefox is not now what we “sold” to users a few years back, instead it has become a huge resources eater.

  • https://me.yahoo.com/ghostbar38#8e4b9 ghostbar

    @David @leezii, an addon was making it start slow :-) Now starts on 10 seconds with all the other addons.

    @Franklin, don’t need to, I always do it with Firefox built-in tool and always report the Broken Webs and all with the new releases. It’s not a rant, is a well deserved critic.

    Firefox is not now what we “sold” to users a few years back, instead it has become a huge resources eater.

  • http://fonts.debian.net Gurkan Sengun

    I think it’d be the world good if Mozilla Firefox would just put up redirects to the Chromium webpage from all their Firefox and Firefox download pages. Seriously.

  • http://fonts.debian.net Gurkan Sengun

    I think it’d be the world good if Mozilla Firefox would just put up redirects to the Chromium webpage from all their Firefox and Firefox download pages. Seriously.

  • Tormod

    Yeah Firefox has become quite resource intensive. The most irritating is the 10 seconds freeze when I start typing in the URL bar the first time after “booting” Firefox. Although I love the history search and completion features, it shouldn’t have to vacuum and monopolize my hard drive. I guess that is what you get for throwing in an RDBMS with full disk syncs. But if my laptop would crash while I am entering an URL (yet to see that happen), I can be assured that my URL history retains its full integrity, yay :)

  • Tormod

    Yeah Firefox has become quite resource intensive. The most irritating is the 10 seconds freeze when I start typing in the URL bar the first time after “booting” Firefox. Although I love the history search and completion features, it shouldn’t have to vacuum and monopolize my hard drive. I guess that is what you get for throwing in an RDBMS with full disk syncs. But if my laptop would crash while I am entering an URL (yet to see that happen), I can be assured that my URL history retains its full integrity, yay :)

  • http://twitter.com/akrasnoschekov Alexander Sol

    Chrome simply feels much lighter, and seems to be less of a memory hog than FF. choose chrome http://coolometer.org/chrome-vs-firefox