I usually use Chromium, the unbranded Chrome. Firefox with NoScript and optionally an Adblocker add-on is a great browser, but the add-on/extension update check that occurs when Firefox loads results in a three to four times longer load time for me than when I launch Chromium. Most surfing I do is performed through Chromium, unless I'm explicitly trying to avoid running certain Flash/Java(script), in which case I'll load Firefox with NoScript enabled. I'm pretty sure Firefox will render RSS feeds legible for humans, whereas Chromium will output the XML of the RSS without formatting it for easy reading. I seem to think Firefox is more bloated, although it's add-on/extensions can be a very valuable feature, especially for web developers (Firebug add-on, etc). I believe Firefox 4.0 was or is recently going to be released, about which I cannot comment. -- -djs<djsteinhafel at gmail.com> On 4/18/2011 9:47 PM, Brian Wood wrote: > I've been using Firefox 3.6.13 and have recently started using Chrome > after using Chrome once previously. One frequently encountered > scrolling-related bug I was having with Firefox went away with Chrome. > One reason I decided to take another look at Chrome was my browsing > tends to use a lot of my resources. Firefox seems to be multi-threaded > as the top program gives a one liner for Firefox that makes it easy to > tell how much resource it is using. Chrome though seems to use a > separate process for each tab and that makes it a pain to compare how > much resource it is using to do the same thing I was doing with Firefox. > There's another aspect to Chrome I like so don't really think I'll > go back > to Firefox soon, but I'm not really sure if Chrome is using > less resources > than Firefox. I also recall hearing about an upcoming Firefox release > that will be more efficient than previous Firefox releases. Thanks in > advance. > > -- > Brian Wood > Ebenezer Enterprises > http://webEbenezer.net > (651) 251-9384 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110418/eb0caea3/attachment.html>