Ive just made Chrome by default browser. Ive been testing various browsers recently including avant, maxthon, opera and of course firefox. I have to say that chrome is pretty fast on here. Im using the 2.0.172.8 build.
I dont need to worry about adverts either as Ive set up an ad filtering proxy on my shell account.
I don't
Lack of addfilter
Lack of mouse gesture
Lack of customisation
I Stay with Maxthon
well for me ads are filtered by my proxy.
nope, no speed loss, pages still load the same. The proxy is one ive compiled myself on my linux shell which is in the same country as me.
Still an extra hop isn't it? It'll add quite a few ms to response times at least.
You may have speed loss... maybe not really significant for you but while the data get through your proxy, being filtered and cam to your computer it's take time.
As the speed difference between to webbrowser is totally insignificant the tiny gap you add will conteract the benefit of the "speed increase" of one brower over the other.
Well its the only way to remove ads in chrome atm at least until they add support for addons.
Still using Firefox here and loving it, don't see why I should change.
I did try chrome. I liked the memory management, but aside from that, meh. I didn't like the google updater that came with it and sat in the background all the time, and aside from that it just felt like a featureless beta.
Besides which, I really cannot go without my FF add-ons.
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