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Extensions: What Mozilla could learn from Google

February 10th, 2010

Chrome screenshotFor being such a young browser and to be forced in the competition so quickly, Chrome as done well to hold it’s ground, it’s also collected a fan club of it’s own.

The browser did very well in security tests and continues to impress in the speed arena; making the Internet faster. But one of the things holding back Chrome has been extensions; something Firefox made an Internet browser standard.

But Mozilla didn’t refine the extension process. Their interface is still clunky, but Google made it better in Chrome.

In Chrome 4, the guys at Google have really put it to Mozilla for not refining one of the most popular features of Firefox; they have added extensions, and the extensions can be added without a restart of the program.

Yeah.

Adding extensions without having to restart the browser. You talk about a breath of fresh air and making things simpler. Chrome has done a lot of digging in in the last year. Chrome was released in September of 2008 and it has continued to progress and improve.

chrome extensions screenshot

Google’s devotion to simplification and speed have been just astounding. With every release of Chrome the browser seems to be getting faster, and all this effort is not going unnoticed; not by the users and definitely by Mozilla. Mozilla seems to have a renewed effort in security, speed and stability. It’s amazing what a little competition can do for the soul.

In October 2009, Google added native support for HTML 5 in to it’s rendering engine. And what you can take from this is the death of Adobe Flash. With the abilities of Flash now being placed in the position of an open forum; being compatible across the board, this will make things much better in the idea of standards.

Chrome still is very new in comparison to others and while Chrome has speed on it’s side now, I wonder about after the extensions grow and people use Chrome as heavily as they use Firefox; will Chrome be as fast then…

 

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  1. February 10th, 2010 at 01:40 | #1

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  2. February 10th, 2010 at 11:23 | #2

    God I love Firefox and it will forever have my loyalty for freeing me from the doldrums of IE, but they really need to get their act together in regards to how memory heavy their browser is. While Chrome may be making strides to replace Firefox in compatibility and extensions, the real reason I have been using Chrome sporadically is because it isn’t as much of a memory hog as FF is.

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  3. February 10th, 2010 at 11:43 | #3

    Firefox’s memory usage is mostly just passive — it doesn’t *hurt* your computer experience in any way. It seems people spend far too much time looking at the numbers in the task manager when it’s mostly irrelevant.

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  4. February 10th, 2010 at 11:47 | #4

    It might not be possible for extensions in Firefox to not force a browser restart. Firefox extensions can reach much further into the system than Chrome extensions can. They can radically alter the user interface as well as deeply embed themselves into page processing. For example, Adblock in Firefox prevents ads from being downloaded while Adblock in Chrome can only hide them on the page after they’ve been downloaded.

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  5. aaa
    February 10th, 2010 at 17:50 | #5

    "Chrome has speed on _its_ side"

  6. February 10th, 2010 at 13:13 | #6

    Funny. The reason I’m NOT using Chrome is because of how much of a memory hog it is. Firefox 3.5 impressed me with small a footprint it had, compared to the competition. But then I actually use Chrome, Opera and Safari for more than just web-testing or checking out how good they’ve gotten in the past few months.

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  7. February 11th, 2010 at 03:17 | #7

    Firefox nowadays is maybe the browser that uses LESS memory. The 3.x series had really good improvements. http://lifehacker.com/5395555/browser-speed-tests-the-windows-7-results http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory

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