A Firefox user plays with Chromium

A Firefox user plays with Chromium

Posted Jul 7, 2011 16:52 UTC (Thu) by Simetrical (guest, #53439)
Parent article: A Firefox user plays with Chromium

I wrote a while ago on why I use Chrome instead of Firefox, when I was chatting with a Mozilla dev about it. Some of my reasons aren't really applicable to other people, but personally I prefer Chrome currently. The killer reasons for me right now are

1. Web Inspector. Now at least as good as Firebug, but it doesn't break with cutting-edge releases.
2. Process-per-tab. Long-running script doesn't freeze the browser, and much fewer whole-browser crashes.

Firefox has some nice features too, and they do plan to fix those two issues, so I might well switch back in the future. I think the real conclusion here is it's awesome we now have two great open-source browsers.

(I use Chrome instead of Chromium because I'm not concerned about the small amount of proprietary code relative to the size of the browser, compared to the benefits of greater testing and faster updates.)

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