Comments on: Google Chrome Extensions vs Firefox Add-ons: Head to Head Comparison

By: anno1404

anno1404 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:42:30 +0000

RE: Ashutosh Mishra on December 13th, 2009:

Hate to admit it, but at its current rate of progress, Chrome will run all over Firefox in 2-3 years’ time.

Okay guys, its been 2 years since Mirsha wrote this, I am a loyal firefox user who is tired of how SLOW firefox is. DOES CHROME have as many add-ons/extensions as Firefox now? Is it better? Time for an updated article.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:31:54 +0000

Google chrome’s extensions don’t slow down the browser because chrome’s extension interface is very basic. It’s like writing a program in C and offering to link with a plugin. Firefox’s plugin system is more complex and flexible, hence the extreme lag.
Chrome’s extensions are ok-ish, but I can’t see how it’s better than firefox in security. Chrome has nothing remotely intricate like XPConnect wrappers, which allows the extensions to safely modify the page.

By: Nguyen Hoang Long

Nguyen Hoang Long — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:08:29 +0000

Google is the fastest browser on processing Javascript which is available in approximately 99.99% on NET. I did a benchmark and found this result: http://goo.gl/BySS

By: Jash

Jash — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:19:22 +0000

Chrome already had the use cases ready, so they took that best from all the browsers and along with the powerful marketing of google (you can see chrome link at the google homepage), no wonder you can do something better which has already been done, same with MS, it has been doing the same thing with Apple for years.

By: yasser

yasser — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:45:03 +0000

Opera was my favorite browser (light, tabs, resume sessions,…etc.) until Firefox started catching up & offering those features & more. Chrome is now doing the same thing. It's just an endless process.!!!!

I'm just wondering if there will ever be a limit on performance & extensions at which all browsers will end up the same…..?!?!

By: Jaap Willem

Jaap Willem — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:53:47 +0000

I did change indeed, on my Windows computer.. On my Mac I still use Firefox sometimes, as well due to one extension, ubiquity

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By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:59:39 +0000

@Daniel – I agree with you on several counts, and as you can see, whatever you said I agreed very well in the Round 3 and picked Firefox as the winner.

Chrome extensions just went mainstream a week away so you can expect lots of improvements over the next few months.

Also Feedly is available for Chrome and like I said in Round 6 many more extensions will be ported to Chrome and will improve over time.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:50:20 +0000

As far as extensions are concerned, the Google equivalents for Firefox's AdblockPlus and FireGestures addons have much need of being revamped. Two top extensions that i believe any serious user needs.
Firefox wins.

With Cleo addon you can backup/restore all your extensions/themes in one click plus one restart.
Firefox wins.

Many other compatible addons Firefox may not make it in for Chrome in a while yet (perhaps a year or two). Diigo, Care2, Cybersearch, Feedly, WOT, DownloadThemAll, SlimSearch and how many other all time favs?
Firefox wins again (for now).

Beyond this though (and other things that others may want to add on), competition will be tight for Firefox (and Opera, and Maxthon3!).

Question is. Will it bring in more users from IE or just those who are in the know?

By: Ashutosh Mishra

Ashutosh Mishra — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:29:06 +0000

Yeah right! Firefox's development pace was much faster than that of Internet Explorer. And now Chrome is developing much faster than Firefox. So in a way, Chrome is the new Firefox and Firefox is the new IE. :]