<p>I have been using Internet Explorer because certain work related web use requires IE browser. Since I had some spare time last night, I start exploring Google Chrome. I was surprised on its speed once I had it set up. I think it is even faster than Firefox. Why is that? Is security an issue? Not well versed in that area.</p>
<p>Your thoughts?</p>
<p>I don’t know but yes it’s faster than any other browser that I’ve used. Lightening speed faster than IE.</p>
<p>It is a lot cleaner than most browsers (has less junk in the background, more efficient coding) and is actually the most secure/safe</p>
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<p>Chrome.Yes, cleanliness is next to godliness.</p>
<p>I use Chrome along with IE and Firefox. I don’t find Chrome any faster or better than the others.</p>
<p>Chrome has been shown to be faster (in some ways) than the other major browsers. It’s also somewhat of a memory hog compared to Firefox. </p>
<p>[Browser</a> Speed Tests: Chrome 17, Firefox 10, Internet Explorer 9, and Opera 11.61](<a href=“Browser Speed Tests: Chrome 17, Firefox 10, Internet Explorer 9, and Opera 11.61”>Browser Speed Tests: Chrome 17, Firefox 10, Internet Explorer 9, and Opera 11.61)</p>
<p>I just switched today. I’ve been using firefox and when on this site, my internet speed always seemed to be especially slow. Now for the first time I am on this site using Chrome and it is so much faster. I’m a convert!!!</p>
<p>I use Firefox as my primary browser and Chome as a secondary (I use it about 5% of the time). Firefox is more of a browser interpreter (it’s easy to build custom browsers and get browsers to look like you want and is very extensible with add-ons).</p>
<p>Google is also the biggest funding source for Firefox (this was true a while ago - last I heard they paid Mozilla $60 million/year).</p>
<p>Much faster. But as noted above, a memory hog. Open a new tab, 30 meg before you even navigate to a page.</p>
<p>If you buy a modern system, it should come with 4-8 GB of RAM so memory shouldn’t be an issue outside of laptops. My desktops have 9 - 16 GB of RAM.</p>
<p>DH is convinced that Bing is better than Google Chrome.</p>
<p>You need to explain that Chrome is a browser and that Bing is a search engine. Chome would compare to Internet Explorer and Bing would compare to Google Search.</p>
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<p>Big “if”…</p>
<p>On my new laptop (Win 7/4 GB) no problem. On my ancient desktop (XP/2 GB) can be.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, love Chrome. Hate it when I have to use my wife’s machine, since she’s still wedded to IE (“I know how to use it”). Never used Firefox, so can’t compare. Do love Opera Mini on my Android.</p>
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<p>My laptop is from 2008 and it gets two hours on battery. The reason for that is that it has a dedicated discrete graphics solution and it’s always running. Laptops a year later had combined integrated and discrete graphics and the system switches back and forth depending on what is needed - or you can force it to always use integrated graphics. The battery life with integrated graphics is typically five to eight hours.</p>
<p>Technology is improving rather quickly with PCs, tablets and phones. Newer hardware is either more powerful at the same power cost or uses less power for the same compute horsepower. You get faster bus speeds, bigger disks, faster disks, better network hardware, more memory, faster memory, more efficient processors with newer stuff.</p>
<p>Of course if your old stuff works, why spend the money to upgrade? Well, performance, using less electricity, features and less weight may be things to consider. Nobody has given me a reason to upgrade my laptop right now. I would like something with much better battery life, that’s several pounds lighter and smaller and that has more memory capacity but there’s nothing out there like that right now (I want WUXGA resolution or better).</p>
<p>Due to compatibility issues, I have stopped using Opera under Windows.</p>
<p>I haven’t used Opera in many years - they charged for the browser and then switched to an ad-supported model. What are they like these days?</p>
<p>I run Chrome on a three-year-old Dell mini with 1 GB ram, which is hardly a powerhouse. Very snappy.</p>
<p>Some people run their browsers with 30 live tabs with many running flash. I guess it’s so that you have access to everything whenever you want it. It does impact performance though.</p>
<p>Some of our web apps at work are incredible CPU hogs, even on very fast machines.</p>
<p>While we’re on the topic, could someone explain to me why some companies only make websites that can run in IE? I don’t do website design at all so I’m legitimately asking. </p>
<p>If you want to view your employment data at one of my jobs (pay stubs, phone numbers, anything related to being an employee of the state of Michigan), you MUST us IE or it will simply not work. It won’t even try. It will just say incompatible browser. Why would they do that?</p>
<p>Supporting multiple browsers typically requires additional work in testing, understanding incompatibilities, layout issues, etc. Browsers also have different versions which expands the amount of testing that you may have to do. You’ll see that some websites only support certain browsers and even only certain versions of certain browsers.</p>
<p>If you are selling a product, you want to make it easy for people to shop at your site. If you are essentially a monopoly (people have to use your site), then you can just state your particular requirements and they have to meet them to use your site.</p>
<p>Many years ago we had to take a certain training course which required Internet Explorer and a certain version of Flash and a certain version of Java. Those particular software versions wouldn’t run on the computers that we had. So they bought us all new computers so that we could take the training course.</p>