7 Reasons Why I Have NOT Switched To Google Chrome From Firefox

“First, Andrew mentions that Google Chrome has a
“much faster loading timeâ€. I have
Google Chrome installed on both my work laptop running Windows XP
and two of my GNU/Linux machines, one running Ubuntu 9.04, the
other running Debian Sid. In all three cases, Google Chrome does
launch from cold boot noticeably faster than Firefox, but the daily
web browsing is not so noticeable. Unless I’m
benchmarking the two browsers side-by-side, which is really only
good for showing benchmarks, I don’t see any
recognizable differences in speed when rendering HTML, CSS or
JavaScript. I’ve used both Chrome and Firefox
with Gmail, Google Wave, and many, many other processor-intensive
sites, and I see no such conclusion that Chrome has a
“much faster loading time†versus
Firefox, who is making the web a slow experience.

“Second, he addresses that Chrome doesn’t
crash. Funny you say that. I’ve had both the
stable version running on Windows XP and the unstable version
running on GNU/Linux tank very recently. It only happened once, in
both operating systems, and I have not been able to reproduce it,
but it wasn’t just a tab failure. The whole
browser went south. I honestly don’t even know
what happened, but I do know what I was doing, and what was lost,
but I’ll address that in a second.”

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