Friday, September 12, 2008

Chrome Vs Firefox

As a linux user (Thanks to AdventNet!!!) for a past three years I'm not able to give a try for chrome and also not happy with Google's Linux importance. To pacify me, I begun to compare the feature list of chrome with firefox.

Here is my comparison

Tabbed Interface
Now its a Neanderthal feature and its essential one, without this you can't live in browser space.

Dockable Windows
Using this you can move a tab into window and vice versa. I tried this in firefox by splitting some tabs across windows but it doesnt comfort for me. Believe me!!!

The omnibox

Chrome suggest you the URLs while you type the names and its also search full text and fetch the related url from history. F3 provide this and i'm comfortable with F3 search. The one thing missed in F3 is suggestion from google. The custom keyword in F3 Bookmarks is more powerful for multi site custom search.( sample list is here)

Most visited page
when u open a blank tab in chrome it shows u most visited site as thumbnails. By default its not available in F3 but u can get this by installing a add-on

Privacy mode
this is a key feature and may capture the entire browser market for google yeah chrome doesn't leave any trace of your visited sites if u choose this mode (Parent Safe!!!). The poor F3 needs some four to five steps for this.

Pop in new tab
still can't find any alternatives for this in F3

sand boxing
chrome opens every tab in a new process and each process on its own. As a 30+ tab user i can't imagine 30+ processes in my process list time will answer this. However i love the task window concept and expect similar in F4.

Very simple Interface
I hate simple "search text box" approach in browser. I use 35+ add ons regularly in F3, some of them has short cuts in the tool bars. To the extreme i love the flock interface.

Easy download system
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come on u can find hundreds of add ons in F3 add on page.

Apart from this, the mozilla community need to answer the Webkit and V8 javascript engine questions. The close watchers of browsers doen't think firefox will adobt webkit for rendering as its the base for add ons and UI. However the F3 did a major revamping in their Gecko engine and reduced the memory consumption a lot. Hope F4 will do a magic.

For chrome It'll be quite difficult to create a developer community like the one mozilla has, Even for google.

This give me relief some what and waiting for notification from google.

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