On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Vikram Hegde <vikhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 15:44 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Lee Fisher <blib...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> To be very blunt... Firefox isn't nearly as good a browser as Chrome or >> >> Chromium..... >> > >> > That is the first time I've heard that. From everywhere I've read and >> > talked >> > to and experienced, Chrome is less secure and less powerful. >> >> What are you talking about? Chrome beats Firefox in almost every >> possible way, why do you think it's gaining market share at gigantic >> pace while Firefox is decreasing? >> >> 1) Windows browsers benchmarked: October 2010 edition >> Chrome: it's fast! >> http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/10/windows-browsers-benchmarked-october-2010-edition.ars >> >> 2) Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked >> Any way you want to analyze the data, Google's Chrome comes out on top. >> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/firefox-chrome-opera,2558.html >> >> 3) Chrome only browser left standing after day one of Pwn2Own >> Google's Chrome browser, however, was the only one left standing—a >> victory that security researchers attribute to its innovative sandbox >> feature. >> http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/03/chrome-is-the-only-browser-left-standing-in-pwn2own-contest.ars > > I have noticed that newer releases of Chrome browser on Linux tend to be > buggier than Firefox.
Are you talking about the stable series? (8.0) I haven't noticed any. > I have never noticed obvious issues with Firefox on > Linux. I have had issues uploading photographs on Ebay with Chrome > and some web-sites don't work properly with Chrome. Perhaps this > is because website developers tend to test with IE and Firefox but not > with Chrome. If it works in Firefox, it works in Chrome, that has been my experience, and it makes sense; the web is supposed to be browser agnostic, the only special case is IE6, and fortunately it doesn't seem to be much of an issue of late. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
