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Any particular reason/extensions that makes you prefer Chrome/chromium?

I generally use FF for most everything, and reserve chromium for those few poorly designed sites that fights hard against noscript/adblock - like facebook after their move away from input-fields and to js/ajax input (They use it for stuff like changing (part of) a friends name into a mention, etc). And for youtube (mostly because the horrible ui is useless without a mouse anyway, and lets me keep youtube in a window while I browse in FF).

[ed: and occasionally for web dev/debug -- not so much because ff web dev tools aren't good -- mostly because they interact somewhat poorly with vimperator]




> Any particular reason/extensions that makes you prefer Chrome/chromium?

For me the reason is the omnibar (short prefixes for search engines, eg. w for wikipedia, ddg for duckduckgo), the developer tools and vimium (ok, I just learned there are similar plungins for firefox), why I use chrome/chromium.


Firefox has let you assign keywords to search engines for a long time, I think possibly before Chrome even existed.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...


Fwiw vimperator works with search shortcuts on firefox, so you can:

  :o g google search term
  :o w wikipedia search term
Etc. 'o' is 'open' and you get the typical url bar search.


As someone else has said, the ombibar is one of the main things. But what originally attracted me to it is the slim profile. (As an example of how much I care about this, I run windows in 'classic' theme mode, because it's the slimmest.) Firefox has a bigger header and has two search bars and I have to disable the menus to slim it down but then if I want access to them I have to re-enable them which is a pain.


Funny with vimperator and either :set gui=none or none,tabs the opposite is true. I run xmonad, so hardly any frames/decorations etc.


Pentadactyl is just disabled on the web tools, for what it's worth.




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