Tag: Firefox

Chrome Complaints

Nick Momrik4 Comments

The switch from Firefox is almost two weeks old. It’s been ok. Some things I don’t like about Chrome:

  • HTTP auth popup dialogs don’t allow pasting a password via the keyboard. You have to use the mouse. My fault!
  • You can’t drag a tab onto the bookmarks toolbar to bookmark it. You can highlight the address and drag that though.
  • It’s taking longer than expected to get used to doing Google searches from the address bar instead of a dedicated search box.
  • I keep selecting Copy from the right click menu, when I’m trying to Copy Link Address.
  • Clearing the DNS host cache is a pain in the ass. I use my hosts file a lot to load domains from a sandbox server.

Maybe I need to dig around extensions a bit. What are your must haves?

Goodbye Firefox

Nick Momrik4 Comments

I’ve been a Firefox user for a long time, but it’s time to throw in the towel. The most common issue I run into is video playback not even starting, but overall the entire browser experience seems to be getting slower. I also run into development issues at work where team members uncover a Chrome bug, where Firefox works fine and as I’d expect it to. Yeah, I know, I should get better at testing. 😉 One recent example is the default behavior in Chrome is to allow a form to be submitted multiple times; double-click the submit button or even keep smashing it and Chrome will send as many requests until your page reloads. Am I the only one who thinks this behavior is really dumb? Firefox doesn’t do this.

The long holiday weekend seems like a good time to make the switch. I looked back to see the first time I mentioned FF on my blog. It was more than 12 years ago, where I mentioned testing in FF and IE6! Times have changed.