Firefox VS Chrome VS Opera

[briareos_kerensky]

I don't have any problems with Firefox, but today I wanted to try out a new browser...the problem lies with extensions however.
In Firefox I currently use:
Rikaichan
NoScript
AdBlock Plus
LeetKey
Fire FTP

I browsed Chrome's extension and came up with few alternatives:
Rikaikun or Furigana Injector (look similar, which is the best?)
AdBlock or AdThwart (again, which is the best?)
found nothing like NoScript, LeetKey and Fire FTP however. Suggestions?

What about Opera? Does it have similar extensions?

[Sane]

I've switched from firefox to Chrome a few months back and I find it a lot faster and less bloated. For extensions I use adblock (never tried the other one) and instead of noscript you can use the built in java blocking (Options > Under the hood > content settings > javascript). If you turn it off there you get a little red X in the adress bar which you can click to give sites permission to run java. It's not as userfriendly as noscript but it does the job.

[monel]

When I briefly tried it Chrome was much faster than Firefox, however I use a cleanup tool called Disc Cleaner that deletes cookies, history etc in most browsers but it didn't seem to work with Chrome. Is there a faster way to delete history in chrome rather then going through the history day by day or page by page deleting?

[smouty]

I'm sticking with Firefox mainly for the GPU acceleration.

Info HERE

[sj33]

The main reason I stick with Firefox is because I rely on the NoScript plugin, and Chrome's extention support isn't low-level enough to support it. The creator of NoScript has been trying to get the Chrome developers to act on it for years, but politics prevents this. Same goes for AdBlock Plus. Something similar does exist for Chrome, but it doesn't feature the same low-level blocking that the Firefox version features.

Rikaichan has been ported to Chrome, but I rely on the above two more.

It's a shame because, as much as I try to support open source software, I've been losing love for Firefox for years. It's become far to bloated and full of memory leaks. That said, with the new version handling Flash within a separate process (thus the browser does not crash when Flash does), stability should increase. Now to get on top of HTML5 support.

[briareos_kerensky]

Thanks everyone. My aim was to use Chrome on my notebook to see how much battery life I would gain and NoScript was essential to avoid loading unwanted Flash files. I guess I'll stick with FF a bit longer, maybe when they'll revamp the Javascript engine for HTML5 they'll also take actions to make the kernel lighter.

[Number45]

Interestingly, I've just installed Minefield (Firefox 4 beta). It's nice and speedy.

[Spatial]

I've never had any real problems with Firefox but I updated to version 3.6.6. the other day and it seems really juddery and slow all of a sudden

[MJ]

Firefox is my browser of choice, mainly because it has worked flawlessly for me for years and it has some great add-ons. I'm using the stable version of Firefox and am looking forward to seeing what they've done with the new version when the stable version is finally released, especially as they've been able to see Chrome in action to benchmark it against.

I love how clean Chrome looks and its overall presentation, but despite its V8 engine it struggles a bit when you open multiple forum new post links in new tabs and Google track all your browsing habits. The Google Chrome Bookmark Sync feature is neat though. I use the beta version of Chrome.

[Oldgamingfart]

I find the main problem with FireFox is the amount of memory it starts to eat when running for long periods. I suppose it's not a big deal if you have lots of RAM, but on slower computers it can be a little annoying having to restart the browser.

Just the other day it managed to eat 700MB in Task Manager after an hour or so on YouTube, and it's apetite doesn't seem to reduce if you close all the tabs either. On the plus side it does have lots of useful add-ons and nifty little extra's.

[Number45]

Yeah, its versatility is the reason I still have Firefox as my main browser. I searched (in vain) a while back for an addon that would accurately detail the memory usage per tab so that I could find out what sites cause problems - because they don't spawn a separate process per tab (Something that Chrome does I think) they can't track the memory usage properly.

[sj33]

They are working on overhauling the engine in order to have separate processed per tab in a future version. Funnily enough, even Internet Explorer has this these days.

[Number45]

Check out v4 (You can install it along with v3. Word of warning though, if you want Flash support don't go for the 64-bit version), it pretty much looks like Chrome at the moment.

[J0e Musashi]

Got a link for it? I'm running 3.6.6, and that's all I can find even at mozilla.com/beta.

*edit*

Got it, pretty good.