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Originally Posted by pilotbob
FireFox is ok in a pinch. I much prefer Chrome... for performance....
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I don't. I have Firefox and Chrome installed here. Performance is roughly equivalent.
An advantage of Chrome is keeping each tab in a separate thread, which means that a problematic site doesn't drag down the whole browser. Firefox is moving in the direction, with a plugin container program to handle things like Adobe PDF viewing as a child process.
The fun part is if you add Chrome extensions. Each
extension becomes a separate process. Add any number of extensions, and watch your Chrome memory requirements balloon. (Fire up
Process Explorer, Install extensions in Chrome,and watch.)
Firefox addons become part of the main Firefox process, and don't have anywhere near the memory impact.
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also, it syncs bookmarks cross platform (now that xmarks is gone that is mportant to me).
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Xmarks
isn't gone. As of last word, they were in discussions to be acquired by someone with deeper pockets, who would continue the free service and offer an optional payware premium service. See
http://blog.xmarks.com/
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Dennis