Dear Chrome
2011-03-23 20:21:11.697858+01 by Dan Lyke 6 comments
Dear Chrome: I like your lower memory footprint, and your speed. However, unless your autofill improves drastically, it's back to Firefox.
2011-03-23 20:21:11.697858+01 by Dan Lyke 6 comments
Dear Chrome: I like your lower memory footprint, and your speed. However, unless your autofill improves drastically, it's back to Firefox.
comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-23 22:34:24.546026+01 by: Dan Lyke
Just fired up Firefox 4. I may be switching back.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-24 05:01:02.185015+01 by: spc476
Back to Chrome? Or Firefox 3?
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-24 15:25:28.231075+01 by: Dan Lyke
Back to Firefox from Chrome. Seems like FF4 has RSS and autofill support that works, and has a lower(!) memory footprint for my basic tests than Chrome.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-25 14:40:50.899873+01 by: andylyke
As to user interface, I love the autohide full screen mode for FF4. If you haven't tried it, press <f11>. Particularly useful on a netbook. Also - (forgive me if I'm way behind the times) I like their "synchronize your bookmarks" idea, as I use more than one machine.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-25 15:11:34.016489+01 by: Dan Lyke
Yeah, the switch to Chrome introduced me to the bookmark synch thing, now I'm setting it up on Firefox. And though I've used full-screen for presentations before, I hadn't played with the autohide function. Thanks, that now makes Firefox behave like the rest of my desktop tools!
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-25 18:43:28.089327+01 by: andylyke [edit history]
A little glitch I just discovered: (WinVista also Win7) when in the autohide mode, FF also inhibits the popup of the taskbar in response to cursor down. I have to take it out of autohide to get the taskbar to respond to cursor at the bottom.