what's the difference between firefox and chrome?

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We've got firefox on our mac and it seems to be fine, but I was just curious as to whether or not chrome would be better - what are the differences?

Firefox has a cool met office weather gadget add on.
Why don't you download chrome and try it? you can have both on at the same time, see which one you prefer.

Chrome has an unusual interface, everything seems organised differently.

I went through the online tutorial and found I thought it had some good ideas, but not every site accepts it.

But I went back to Firefox & have been with it ever since at work. (I use Camino at home, a FF derived browser for Macs).

I suggest you try Chrome out & see what you think, it's free!

I like chrome. It is the only one i don't have problems with. Although it doesn't work very well on Ebay listings or postage label printing but i just go back to Firefox for that.
Internet explorer constantly seemed to have 'encountered a problem and has to close'!

I like Chrome, it's a bit minimalist, but I like the way it works. The main problem I have with it is that despite being a Google creation, oddly, it doesn't support the Google bookmarks bar, which I use all the time to bookmark sites I want to look at both at home and at work. If it did I'd use it a lot more, especially as later versions of Firefox appear rather less stable than earlier ones - it's still better than IE7, but with IE8 it's a much closer-run thing.

thanks - does that mean I should really be using Camino then [confused emoticon] instead of Firefox?

I use firefox and like all the add ons you can get for it - like the met office widget, sidebars for twitter/FB - pop up blockers. basically you can customise it however you like. I don't if you can do that with chrome, i was a bit wary that everything seemed to be google.

OH! Nono, Firefox is better!

I have a very ancient Mac that Firefox is too big for (I'm out of disk space).

Definitely I enjoy the add-ons which help make Firefox superior!

I'd say try Chrome & see what you think, but as its a bit odd, try the tutorial as well if you have time.

Let us know how you find it!

Chrome is a very different design underneath. It runs a separate instance of Chrome for each tab or window, which could use a lot of memory, but is theoretically a more secure approach. It also means that a program crash will only affect one Window or tab.

Firefox has lots of really good addons you cant use with Chrome.

The other thing I like about FF that you can't do with Chrome is that FF will remember the level of zoom you were using for a particular website and open the page next time at that level - which is particularly useful because I always have MN zoomed in so there are no big white spaces each side. On Chrome I have to re-zoom every time I open it.

I use Opera - there's a Mac version available too. It has useful built-on features so you don't need so many add-ons. It also has widgets for facebook, twitter and other apps like weather and news. Give it a go and see what you think - I like it because it's very user-friendly. My partner likes it because you can customize it so much, and it upgrades its features regularly. And it's free

It's all down to personal choice really, and there's no 'best' browser, though some are clearly more popular than others (Opera is down at about 2.5%, Chrome a little above it, Firefox above that and various versions of MS Internet Explorer total more than Firefox).

Not sure where Safari comes - I don't like it that much, but mostly because I've used Netscape {and now Firefox} for over 14 years (I have Netscape 7.2, 7.1 and some earlier versions on different PCs, plus Opera and Firefox. I have Opera 9, Opera 10, Firefox 2, 3, 3.5, and copies of MS IE v6, v7, v8 and Chrome, but rarely use MS IE or Chrome).

I brought back a copy of Netscape Gold v3 in 1995 from the USA (ignoring the export restriction!) and had previously used v2 and v1 (which came on floppies from my USA ISP called UltraNet, back in the early 90s).

Latest version of Opera (v10) has a neat synchronisation facility so bookmarks and notes get copied to every PC I'm using, wherever I added/ changed the entries.

There was an add-on for Firefox which did similar (called FoxMarks but now changed name to XMarks, I think, to include some other browsers).