I remember back in the day when IE was the problem child in this regard, not Firefox. This is why I left it behind, along with the huge memory leaks and the fact that randomly it stopped loading pages, making my family think the Internet connection had dropped out. I think Firefox needs a complete overhaul.

Why are people obsessed with plugins?
Installing more bloat and causing more problems. WEB BROWSING. VIEWING WEBPAGES. GOOD JAVASCRIPT SUPPORT. A move towards webapps running in their own tabs, not plugins hanging off the back off the browser. I think chrome have it right. Am I wrong?

I’ll still be using all four of the major browsers for years to come.

You just said yourself you’ve never used Chrome, so how can you even attempt to back this up? Being a Chrome user that at one point was given a Mac for work I can tell you that Chrome is far more ‘complete and stable’ than Safari.

Opera doesnt provide better clarity pictures while usin internet 4m mobile thru PC suite.

The new upgrades dont let it crash evn!

BTW, I have seen how strictly does Apple filter the apps for my iPhone. I wish FF had some such strict certification for its plugins, instead of risking loosing users.

Opera comes with inbuilt functionality to do all the 4 things you mentioned. Right out of the box. No plugins, nothing.

Chrome may be a little faster, but, the little I lose in speed, I gain from having the web experience that I want, as follows :

* Adblock Plus – Ok, this is a given.
* Stylish – White sheet backgrounds that most websites seem to use give me migranes after a short while. With Stylish, I can set the appearance to how *I* want it for websites that I use regularly.
* Greasemonkey – mainly for Facebook, for killing off those spammy quiz stories that clutter up my news feed.
* Noscript – Admittedly a pain in the ass for the first few days, but, ultimately, an extra level of safety.

But the point i was willing to raise was that in recent releases what they have done is that they create a random seed by scanning through your temp files and cache so startup gets a lot slow when you have large temp and cache

But for proprietary products(say IE), I have to depend on the product managers of M$, and if you think your request is going to be granted there… dream on!

Chrome, by the way, is also made open source by google. Although I don’t like it as much as Firefox, and although it’s not yet available for the mac, I do check it’s status by downloading the nightly builds once a fortnight to know what exactly I’m going to get when it’s released.

Apart from the inbuilt mail client, RSS reader and speed dial there are million little things done right by Opera.

b) Chrome does have right click “inspect element” except that you’d of course want to use IE and FF for that, if you’re a web developer, so no huge gain there.

c) chrome 3 has greasemonkey.

That being said, FF 3.5 seems a lot snappier than its predecessors and, if nothing else, competition from chrome will push it to become better. Everone gains.
GL!

Geeks – tell me one thing, why should the end user care about open source story?

for me firebug is something i can’t dream of living where as for a large group this would be a piece of shit and something that should not have been released in public as it just bloat’s there browser.

on one side of this single sentence is me ready to sacrifice on speed for actually performance and on other side is a person who find no use of the plugin.

so we can’t restrict on development

on a lighter side
there is one example i can think on in this case and that is proprietary soft solution “don’t let other’s touch the code and in that way you can exercise control” but not in Open Source Model

That’s the challenge of being an open platform, but wht one needs to do is have a strict control/constraint, otherwise you will have great applications,but that will make the platform bloated and useless.

BTW has anybody tried Opera 10 beta 2 version. It is the most advanced form of browsing. Highly customizable (u’ll need to spend time to discover ur power to change), inbuilt mail client which is no less than if not better than thunderbird.

It fixes the memory leak thing to some extent without multiple process(and connections too) making as in chrome(which is why I dont use chrome). And if u look at its mem-usage in as browser+mail client its way beyond efficient.
It’s pretty stable too.

b) They help you develop websites like no other browser can! Firebug/Live HTTP headers/Venkman are all life savers for a web dev.

c) You have to try greasemonkey to understand what you can do to your default facebook/orkut pages.

Point is: It’s awesome for power users, just that you have to keep on restarting your browser after 4-5 hours of use. (FF runs like a dog after 4-5 hours even on my 4gb DD3 RAM machine ) Also, avoid firebug intercept all your requests to ajax heavy sites like gmail.