Google Chrome vs. Mozilla Firefox...The Fight!!

     There is a browser that gets more and more market shares: the Google Chrome Browser! And even fellow Firefox fans (like myself) are starting to use Google Chrome recently. But why?
Let´s start with the advantages of both browsers.

Things that I really like in Google Chrome:

• It is really fast: loading new pages or opening a chrome browser window is definitely fast.
• It is still fast even after adding dozens of Chrome Extensions!
• The Google Chrome User Interface is very simple and not polluted with unnecessary features that you don´t use regularly

       

Cool minimalistic Chrome User Interface: Everything that you need in a very small space: Tabs, back buttons, Refresh Button, URL field and Extension Icons on the right.

 

Things that I like in Firefox:

• Firefox still has the biggest variety of useful Firefox Plugins
• Since Firefox is together with Internet Explorer the most popular browser, all the webdesigners test their sites in Firefox - and you can be pretty much sure that every website works fine while browsing through the web
• It is an open-source browser

Reasons why I will no longer use Firefox as my primary browser:

• The more plugins you add to Firefox, the slower it tends to be - that doesn´t happen in Chrome. Since I want to have many plugins and there are now also quite a bit of cool Chrome Plugins, I better go with Google Chrome.
• The way how extensions are implemented in Google´s minimalistic UI is much cooler. No more toolbars-crap that polluted the Firefox user interface.

Reasons that prevent me from fully switching to the Google Chrome Browser:

• There are some Firefox plugins I can´t live without that are (not yet) available for Google Chrome like for example Selenium IDE for QA testing or Firebug (the Chrome version of Firebug Lite didn´t really convince me so far)
• Google Chrome is not yet on everybody´s “browsers-to-test” list => from time to time you can see smaller design bugs while browsing through the web

      In the end I couldn´t fully switch to Chrome due to some plugins that I just need for work, but for the everyday use I now prefer Chrome, because of the good speed performance and the convincing user interface.
BTW: I skipped comparing Google Chrome with Internet Explorer, because I just assume that no web developers, webdesigners and web product managers seriously use Internet Explorer for the following reasons: (Ok, for browser testing purposes it makes sense to watch your sites through IE eyes from time to time)

• I don´t personally now people working in the internet industry that personally prefer Internet Explorer
• If I look into webproductblog.com Google Analytics, I can only see a very small percentage of around 15% IE users

    If you don´t agree with that and know a good argument to use IE, please let me know and write a comment below!