Leaders among browsers on the Runet. So why do users choose these particular web browsers, and how do they differ from each other, which one is better?
Interface
As always, let's start with the appearance, because everyone is always greeted by their clothes! Of course, the convenience of the interface and navigation, for each is a completely individual thing. But we will try, more or less objectively, to take into account all the advantages or disadvantages of the interfaces of these browsers.
In one and the other browser, you can create tabs and bookmarks, manage them, set your own themes, add extensions and favorites, as well as combine the address bar with the search. But unlike Mozilla Firefox, in Google Chrome, the search bar and the address bar were combined into one, which is very convenient and does not overload the interface itself with unnecessary elements.
In Google Chrome, the menu button is in the upper right corner, where you can find an ordered list of the main functions. And in Mozilla Firefox, the menu is in the left corner, which in my opinion is not very convenient. But Mozilla has a panel with buttons for copying, cutting and pasting text elements, which is a very convenient thing for some users. In conclusion, it can be noted that in Google Chrome, the interface is more concise and simple.
Speed
Well what can I say, everyone who then used Google Chrome unanimously declares - this is a faster browser! This web viewer is far ahead of its competitors in page opening speed. But this does not mean that Mozila is a slow browser, in the latest versions the developers have improved the loading of graphics and the performance of applications.
We did some tests, opening 75 tabs at the same time in Firefox, we did not notice any lags - all tabs are loaded, as well as the first. But opening the same amount in Chrome, it was clear that the browser began to think. Of course, it is unlikely that an ordinary user will need such a number of tabs, but this dullness can appear with a smaller amount of tabs.
The reason for this slowdown in Chrome may be the fact that each separate tab in the browser is a separate process. But the launch speed at startup in Google Chrome is much higher than that of Mozilla.
Protection
The developers of both Mozilla and Chrome have provided browsers with powerful protection against sites with viruses that track user activity, can record e-mail and other personal data. Each of them has anti-phishing and XSS protection features, as well as spyware blockers.
But still, the Google developers went further and implemented the Sandbox option, with which all plugins can be used in a virtual environment without downloading them to a personal computer. In this aspect, we could not determine which browser is better, because the security issue is at the highest level.
Personalization
Both web viewers have the ability to import all settings, bookmarks and passwords from other browsers. In each of them, the standard features can be extended with add-ons and plugins. But as experts and advanced users say, the Mozilla Firefox browser is very flexible, more than 200,000 add-ons are available to the user. With help, you can turn Mozilla into a "miniature operating system" that can do almost anything.
But Google Chrome is in no way inferior in the number of extensions and plugins, besides, after installing them, you do not need to restart your browser. Still, Firefox is the winner in this category.
When you open the tabs, you can see that Mozilla is taking a little more PC resources. But Chrome has a slightly different approach to working with RAM, the work of a separate plugin or tab creates a separate process, this can be seen by opening the process manager. On the one hand, this is very good, the processes do not interfere with each other, which is why their work is more stable. But on the other hand, this model requires more RAM.
But despite these load indicators, both browsers are godly load the system, besides, the load is carried out only when the page is loaded.
At the end of our review, we can highlight the main pros and cons that users pay attention to when choosing the best browser.
First of all, Google Chrome is good because it has a "smart" address bar that gives you suggestions for search phrases. But Mozilla also has such a line, but according to browser lovers from Google, it is not so "smart". Another advantage of the Chrome browser is the presence of a built-in translator, which allows you to view sites in the user's native language. Of course, the translation is not always normal, but the translator is constantly being improved. The function of the translator in Mozilla can be performed by a third-party plug-in, which again speaks of the great customization of the functionality of this browser.
Also, one should not lose sight of the V8 technology, which is implemented on the Chrome engine, it allows you to quickly load online games and applications. If, after reading this review, you still have not decided which browser to choose, I advise you to install both and evaluate which one is better for yourself!
A statistical survey carried out among Runet users shows that the browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are the most demanded. How this is explained, and how the two web browsers differ from each other, will be described below.
Interface
It is difficult to measure and compare the look and feel of the two browsers as these are highly individual metrics that cannot be generalized. We will try to conduct an as objective review as possible.Both of the programs under consideration allow you to navigate among many tabs, create your own bookmarks, change the design of the browser, and adjust extensions and settings for yourself.
However, the Chrome menu and interface looks more simplified and is not crammed with unnecessary function keys that would distract the user from working with the application. The menu is organized in one column.
As for the Mozilla browser, its menu contains more sub-items, is split into two columns, and has more scattered ordering, which makes it difficult for the user to understand.
Browser speed
When it comes to browser speed, all experts have complete confidence in outperforming all of their competitors. However, its main rival, Mozilla, does not stop there, and with the development of new updates, it increases its performance. A test was carried out on a modified version of the browser, the result of which showed that even after opening 75 tabs, each subsequent Mozilla opens at the same speed from the very beginning.
But Google Chrome showed lower results here, and its page loading speed after opening a large number of tabs dropped noticeably. In everyday life, such an experiment will not be useful, but the effect will persist even when you open a smaller number of tabs with a larger size. There is also an opinion that after some time of use, the initial launch starts to take longer than initially.
Protection of information and personal data
More than once, Mozilla's developers received user reviews that sites that track their activity do not allow easy use of the browser, save the email address and some other data. These complaints forced the developers to make some changes to the application that stopped such actions on the part of the websites. This has improved the privacy of the browser, and the protection of user data.
The creators of Google Chrome also took security seriously, and in addition to introducing integrated protection into the system, they created an option like SandBox. It allows the user to run the plugins he needs online, without having to save them to the hard drive of the computer. From this we can conclude that both browsers have an equally good level of protection, and there is no point in competing in this matter.
Personalization and convenience
Both Google Chrome and Mozilla do an excellent job of syncing data across other web browsing applications. They are capable of carrying passwords, bookmarks, saved tabs and many other personal user settings. Apart from that, they both support a convenient download manager for social networks - Vkopt. In addition, Mozilla's browser has over 200 thousand different add-ons that can turn a standard browser into an exclusive version.Chrome does not lag behind in this regard, and its online store has at its disposal no less than various add-ons and plugins.
Its advantage in this sense is that the downloaded add-ons begin to function in the application without having to reboot it. This optimizes the time of working with the browser and improves the usability.
Computer load
Having opened the same tabs at the same time in the above two browsers, you will notice that Mozilla takes over most of the processor load. There are also differences in the way it functions with RAM. Each new tab in Chrome has a separate process, each of which can be tracked in the list of the process manager. This improves the stability of the application and makes it easier to recover from a crash. Firefox has all tabs combined into one process. A distinctive feature can be called the fact that this browser gives the user the ability to independently regulate resource consumption. This process can be started by pressing the Shift + Escape key combination in the browser window. Most of the memory is taken up by the initial process of processing the opened page, after which the activity of this process is minimized.In conclusion, I would like to highlight the main distinguishing features of each of the two browsers. Google Chrome has a more advanced address bar omnibox. It helps the user to find the right one of the proposed options, thereby reducing the time for entering a search query. This option is also supported by Mozilla, but it has been noticed more than once that Google has more reasonable options for hints. This gives him a comparative advantage.
In addition, Google Chrome has the ability to translate entire pages into the language, the regionality of which is specified in the settings. This allows the user to browse foreign sites without any problems.
However, the quality of the translation itself still leaves much to be desired, but the general meaning of the articles will nevertheless be clear. In the second browser, this option is only possible after installing an additional plugin.
As a conclusion, we can say that Chrome by some criteria is much better than Mozilla, but you should not build preliminary judgments, and try to work with both one browser and another.
The degree of comfort of use is strictly individual, so to decide which is better, you need to try both options.
Arguing leadership between the Big Three browsers is a thankless task. , Opera and Mozilla Firefox have their own advantages and disadvantages, characteristic chips, armies of fans. They all have one thing in common - these are very heavy and far from the fastest programs for working with the Internet. IE was not included in the top three by definition, although it is the most widespread on the planet - about 50% of the world's population open pages using IE. Moreover, the developers of these products have become lazy over the past three or four years, yielding to newcomers in everything except mass. Yes, there are much faster and more stable browsers out there today than Opera or Firefox, or Chrome — a rock in the corporate garden. Let's compare usability, speed, browser capabilities. Let's try to determine which is better: Opera or Firefox.
Performance
Speed is the determining factor for most internet users. Mozilla uses the advanced Gecko engine with a dedicated markup language XUL. Opera Turbo was never taught to work with scripts. But, both browsers cope approximately on an equal footing with the first loading of the site, with the second, when the cache comes into play, Firefox has an insignificant lead.
Safety
Both browsers allow you to turn off cookies, corporations are actively fighting against malicious sites. You can also connect the Avast extension, which adds its database to the list of dangerous pages. Both Opera and Firefox have a private browsing function. Same result.
Opportunities
Here is a clear win for Mozilla Firefox. The browser allows everything and even more, which is facilitated by several thousand of various extensions and plugins. Do you need to go to the site from the Belarusian IP? - please install FoxyProxy. Download video or media from any site? - easy, any downloader to help. Say No to Ads with AdBlock. Now many of these chips are available at the Opera, but I was a pioneer.
Interface
There is no dispute about habits. Someone is more comfortable with Opera, but Firefox offers the maximum number of options for customizing the interface. And this is one of its main advantages.
Conclusion
Which is better: Opera or Firefox? - it is impossible to make an unambiguous conclusion. Fox is more flexible and customizable, has three times more add-ons than any other browser. Opera is more secretive on the web.
This is the largest and most innovative update to the Mozilla web browser in years. Firefox is faster and more modern. Let's consider the main advantages of the new version of the browser over its main competitor - Google Chrome.
The oldest users remember Firefox from the Phoenix project, which was launched back in 2002. In those days, the new browser looked very much better in performance compared to the sluggish Internet Explorer. However, after the release of Chrome, the Google browser was able to take the crown from Firefox. It was faster, more secure and took full advantage of modern hardware.
However, the latest efforts of the Mozilla developers have not been in vain - the browser has indeed become faster. Firefox Quantum launches a process that renders the user interface separate from the four “content processes” that render web pages in open tabs. This means that heavy, element-heavy web pages can no longer slow down the Firefox interface. In addition, Firefox's new multiprocessing architecture helps limit damage from a potential malicious page if a vulnerability is exploited. According to Mozilla. the 4 process limit allows 30 percent less memory than Chrome.
Based on my own experience, it can be argued that Firefox Quantum is as fast as Chrome. Now we are not talking about the results of synthetic tests, but only about subjective feelings. Mozilla plans to integrate the experimental Servo engine deeper in future releases. At this stage, only the new CSS engine has been implemented, so further performance improvements can be expected in the near future.
Compared to Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and many Windows desktop apps, text in Chrome doesn't look the best. You can check it yourself. Just open the simple site example.com in Chrome and Firefox. Fonts in Chrome will appear lighter and thinner than in Firefox.
Text in Firefox is easier to read and looks more organic compared to other Windows applications.
Depending on your display and system settings, you may see a slight difference, but it will still be noticeable.
Longtime Firefox users probably didn’t like one of the new features in version 57 — the complete rejection of XUL and the move to WebExtensions. Classic XUL extensions had full access to the Firefox interface, making them very powerful and functional, but could lead to browser stability issues. Unfortunately, they are not fully compatible with modern Firefox multiprocessing architecture and sandboxing features.
However, even after a major overhaul of the extensions platform, Firefox plugins still have some functionality that is not supported in Chrome. For example, Firefox has a handy sidebar for viewing your bookmarks and history, which can be used by extensions to display additional information. For example, the Tree Style Tab extension creates a vertical tab bar, which is great for systems with widescreen monitors.
Hopefully there will be more powerful and functional extensions for Firefox. Of course, most of the WebExtensions plugins are identical in Chrome and Firefox, but some of them may take advantage of the more advanced capabilities Firefox has to offer.
Firefox also has Reading View, which can be found in other modern browsers such as Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge. This is not a new feature for Firefox, but Chrome is still missing it. The Chrome devs tested a similar option a few years ago, but it got nowhere.
To access Reading View, you simply go to the webpage containing the article and click on the “Go to Reading View” icon that appears on the right side of the address bar. You get a minimal page without any images, videos, backgrounds, or other web page elements that interfere with your reading.
Sure, you can get this feature in Chrome with a browser extension, but this is a good example of Mozilla adding a feature that Google just doesn't want to add to Chrome.
Firefox, like Chrome, offers the ability to sync data between computers and mobile devices. You can access bookmarks and open tabs while away from your PC. Official Firefox apps are available for iPhone, iPad and Android.
Some mobile features are only available in Firefox. In the Firefox action menu, there is an option “Send tab to device”, which allows you to open the desired tab on the device linked to your Firefox account, for example, on a smartphone or laptop. It is very comfortable.
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Today, while installing programs on a computer, one client asked "Which browser should you install Firefox or Chrome?" and received a wonderful answer that made me write this article "What is better?"
Since the birth of this site, about 8000 people have come to visit me and the most popular of the browsers turned out to be Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. They occupied 33.5% and 27.5%, respectively.
First, let's take a look at the advantages of each of the browsers.
Mozilla Firefox advantages
Classic design. This is of course a controversial issue, since the compact mode, which was first introduced by Google in its browser, turned out to be so successful that now absolutely everyone is trying to steal it, and not everyone succeeds in it.
Extensibility. Just a huge number of extensions for this browser allow you to use it not only for surfing, but also help in website development, entertainment and even work.
Security is especially worth mentioning. Being open, this browser undergoes rigorous testing by many large corporations, and even rare vulnerabilities are quickly closed and are no longer dangerous for users.
Benefits of Google Chrome
Very high speed of the browser. A very simple interface that allows even an old grandmother to easily connect to the network (modern babies and Firefox learn quickly). Integration with services from Google and the system of extensions, which continues to gain momentum, allow the Google Chrome browser not only to occupy a small percentage of the market, but also gradually turn into a market leader.
The store of extensions for this browser is especially worth noting. Since, unlike competitors, it is possible to install not only "small add-ons" in it, but also quite solid applications, such as calculators and office programs, and entertainment, such as games.
So what should you choose?
Just try and make your choice. For example, I use the Mozilla Firefox browser, but with great pleasure I would switch to Google Chrome if it had all the extensions I needed.
What did you choose?
What browser do you use? Please write in the comments and at least briefly answer why this particular browser.
