So, this is a question we have been hearing a lot lately. You can thank me, if it never occurred to you. Which browser to use? Which is better suited for me? Speed, or Reliability? Better Speed or better page rendering? Still confused, lets walk you through it!
Mozilla Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 are two most recent additions in the long waging browser wars. Those who still don’t know about Chrome 11, we are happy to tell you first that the day Mozilla released Firefox 4, Google released Chrome 11 in its beta channel. So, here’s whats new in Chrome 11 :
- New Chrome logo. :)
- Speed Enhancements
- New tools for web developers.
- Support for HTML speech input API.
More information about Chrome 11 can be found here.
Now, getting back to what we were talking about. Deciding which browser to use, to be frank, depends on you! I can surely tell you some pointers which will help you decide.
UI
Since its launch, Google Chrome has a minimalistic and clean UI but interestingly in Firefox 4, it brought some new and interesting changes to UI – a brightly colored Firefox start button, that looks like something nicked from a recent Opera version, plus a tab-pinning function (no doubt nicked from Google).
SPEED & RENDERING
Both the browsers have significant fast speeds, but Chrome excels in Page load test as well as a quicker startup. Firefox on the other hand has a robust Javascript engine and in the latest version (4), has included hardware acceleration for Web based 3D applications.
SYNCING
Both Firefox and Chrome have built in syncing features, but in Chrome it can be synced to a Google account which comes in handy. Chrome recently launched Cloud Print Service which enables users to use a printer connected to a cloud.
APPs & EXTENSIONS
Both Firefox and Chrome have a plethora of Addons and Extensions which cater to almost all the needs of a normal user. But Firefox has its edge over Chrome over the number of add-ons and its customizable in every possible way.
CONCLUSION
First up is the speech input option. Although it won’t help you much if you’re a non-native speaker with a runny nose, it works well enough, and Google claims that popular websites will pick this one up. Firefox is concentrating mainly on its UI and Speed improvements while in Chrome, Google always tries to come up with something entirely new. As a web designer, I would prefer Firefox, but as a user I would prefer Chrome, but then again, its my opinion. Concluding, its a real hard competition between the two contenders where Chrome is gradually climbing its way up in the ladder.
was checking out the demo of html speech input in…
http://slides.html5rocks.com/#speech-input
when i said: “search for latest google chrome”, it wrote:
“search for naked latin girls” … :P
though it can be good if its accurate.
:)
It is indeed amusing, but the fact is that the technology is still under development. I hope its gets better as the days pass by.
I have been using firefox Since i found out that it exists. Firefox overall is candy for eyes and Chrome is just ugly plain text not much user modify settings. Yeah.. Firefox 3.6 was better for me than Chrome so now that Firefox is even more awesome and up to 6x times faster why would i switch to Chrome lol.
I am going to say same words. I’ve been using firefox from start.
Some days back I was on 3.6, and there is some update like 3.67 (or something I don’t remember) when I went to their site for update I saw firefox 4 beta RC, i was eager to download it, and it comes out awesome then.
Beta got some errors and bugs, which have been fixed in stable version now.
Thanks. :)
My bet is on Chrome 11 always. Loyalty to chrome anytime.
In my opinion, you should consider the latest web-browser of Microsoft: IE 9.
Alot of time I used Chrome because it was fast (Google claimed their browser to be faster than Firefox) and had a more friendly UI than previous versions of Firefox or IE.
After the release of Mozilla Firefox 4, I undoubtedly jumped into it and got familiar with the new UI. I like it, but lately I was curious about which is the best webbrowser at the moment and after a little reasearch I remembered myself that I have IE installed and my Windows 7 automatically made an upgrade to version 9. So I got IE 9 opened and… surprise. A brand new UI, very clear and easy to use. A professional UI I can say. In fact, I think IE 9 has the greatest UI at the moment because its simplicity and professionalism.
By the way, I couldn’t read this article in Firefox 4 without using IE Tab plugin.
After reading this article i’ve just downloaded google chrome 11 budaun
Nowadays lost of browser available but i think Firefox is one of the best browser because it faster browser as compared other browser so Firefox almost always presents glorious searching result.