Is Chrome that much better than Firefox?

I don't really know. I switched over at a time that I was having trouble with firefox because of bloat and bugs, but that may no longer apply. I use opera too and sometimes I still use firefox.

Ha that's great.

On the performance issue, I actually just started using Chrome this week and it seems much faster than Firefox and definitely is using less memory.

startup on chrome is definitely quicker for me on my performance-crippled machines. as far as rendering, i have not noticed a difference.

I've found myself drifting over to Chrome lately, much to my surprise. It's the superior memory management. I use a lot of extensions on both browsers, which makes them sluggish over the long haul (especially when they don't get restarted often). But Chrome lets you kill individual add-ons or groups of tabs, wiping out tens of thousands of bytes of memory-hogging processes without ending your whole session. And the tabs are still there, so you can get the content back by just reloading them.

If Firefox incorporated a feature like that, I'd be back in a heartbeat. I'm surprised they haven't done it already, considering how inefficient memory use is the number one complaint lodged against it.

Ha ha haaaa.

I've been using Chrome for a couple months. My love for it was pretty instant and I'm not that interested in going back into Firefox any more.

As for Jimmy Wales, there's a huge part of me that's wanting to go back about a half a dozen years and shove his "people will create good content for free just for the social capital, in perpetuity" crap right back into his face.

I have to use firefox because of its developer toolbar extension (man do you know how hard it is to figure out the dimensions of an image in chrome? in firefox you just open it in its own tab and the dimensions are right in the title bar, even in ancient IE versions you could right click it and find out) and now that I improved my machine's performance a bit I find myself using it happily.

Chrome has a couple UI issues that absolutely kill me; in firefox if I open a page like "this is a variety of juices" I can later type 'variety' in the address bar and it opens in a dropdown of history choices. Chrome? Ha! I'll be lucky if it suggests the old page even if I type "this" and not populate the address bar dropdown with wack google searches..

actually I went and tried it right now and it seems to work a lil bit but not really.. it's finicky and is really biased towards ignoring your history and suggesting google searches instead

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