[Noisebridge-discuss] seeking geek advice: firefox+vimerator or chrom?

[Brian Johnson]

To be honest, I've been non-satisfied with Chrome's lack of decent
extensions. Adblock+, Web Developer Toolbar, and Greasmonkey are extensions
that I cannot find on Chrome. (Yes, Adblock exists, but its not the same and
Greasemetal is not compatible with half of the scripts on userscripts.org)

It also seems that recent versions of Chrome builds end up having lots of
regressions that cause stupid shit like XMLHttpRequest to cause memory leaks
(specifically after leaving Google Reader open in the background). As much
as I hate AJAX and stupid websites (looking at you Facebook) that abuse it,
the memory leak issue is a real problem for me because more and more
websites are using AJAX like it's some sort of fad. I have stuck with
Firefox's performance issues because, surprisingly, it seems that Firefox
has been more stable than Chrome has been (lately).

I say, stick with Firefox and do what you can to reduce its footprint on
your system until Chrome becomes more mature.

- Brian


On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Michael Shiloh
<michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a geek dilemma, and I my usual sources of advice won't understand
> the geek nuances present, so I'm turning to you.
>
> I finally got tired of Firefox crashing or hogging all memory and CPU
> and forcing me to kill it, so I tried Chrome. I've been using it for
> about a week and I love it.
>
> Today I discovered Vimperator, a plugin for Firefox which provides
> vi-like navigation and browsing. Apart from being wonderfully geeky, it
> allows me to do everything browser related without removing my hands
> from the keyboard. After 30 some years of using vi, I'm pretty quick
> with it.
>
> So which to chose? The stability and speed of Chrome or the freedom from
> the mouse of Firefox + Vimperator?
>
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