{"id":124,"date":"2010-05-15T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/why-i-use-google-chrome-more-and-more-on-ubuntu-10-04\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T07:16:27","slug":"why-i-use-google-chrome-more-and-more-on-ubuntu-10-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/why-i-use-google-chrome-more-and-more-on-ubuntu-10-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I use Google Chrome more and more on Ubuntu 10.04?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and have both Google Chrome (v 5.0.375.38 beta) and Firefox (v 3.6.3) installed.&nbsp; Although Firefox is still setup as my default browser, I find myself using Chrome more and more and it is mainly for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chrome starts up much, much faster than Firefox.&nbsp; I have almost the same amount of extensions of similar type in each browser.<\/li>\n<li>After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 from Ubuntu 9.10, Flash stopped working in Firefox.&nbsp; Have no problems with Flash in Chrome.&nbsp; I have tried everything suggested to fix the Flash problem in Firefox but none seem to work.<\/li>\n<li>Like the idea that I can install extensions in Chrome without restarting Chrome. <\/li>\n<li>I sometime use standalone web-apps (Google Reader) and tried both using Prism and Chrome standalone and I just like the Chrome standalone better.<\/li>\n<li>Overall Chrome just feel much more faster and snappy.<\/li>\n<li>By default Chrome gives me more real estate &#8211; yes i know I can get some minimalist theme for Firefox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a couple of IBM work extensions that I use that is only available in Firefox so will have to carry on using Firefox until they bring out Chrome versions.&nbsp; This might be one of the reasons why Firefox loads so much slower, but I cannot think this couple of extensions can have so much influence on Firefox&#8217;s loading time.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run, if this trend continue, I cannot see myself using Firefox that much anymore.&nbsp; With each new version of Chrome it just gets better and better.&nbsp; I can fully understand why Chrome is being considered as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webupd8.org\/2010\/05\/new-default-applications-in-ubuntu.html\">default for Ubuntu Maverick Netbook Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and have both Google Chrome (v 5.0.375.38 beta) and Firefox (v 3.6.3) installed.&nbsp; Although Firefox is still setup as my default browser, I find myself using Chrome more and more and it is mainly for the following reasons: Chrome starts up much, much faster than Firefox.&nbsp; I have almost the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-20","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}