Birmingham Web Designers Jeremy Flint

I have been a long-time Firefox user and evangelist. I started playing around with Firefox when it was still named Phoenix. I started using it with more frequency around the time it was renamed to Firebird and made it my default browser long before Firefox 1.0 was released. This was all on the PC platform.

When I switched to Mac as my main development environment, I stuck with Firefox over Safari because of the available web developer tools that I relied on like the Web Developer Toolbar and, later, Firebug – among others. But as new versions of Firefox were released, I was noticed it getting more and more sluggish.

When social media started to trend upward, I briefly switched to Flock, a Firefox-based browser that hooks into many services like Flickr, Twitter, and more without the need for plugins. But it was always a version or two behind the latest Firefox release, so that didn’t last long.

About 2 months ago, I switched to Google Chrome as my primary browser and haven’t looked back. Sure, I will occasionally need to open up Firefox to bug check something or because specific sites do not work properly in Chrome (it is beta, after all), but 90% of my browsing is now done in Chrome.

I like the snappiness of it and the quickness of opening the app and rendering pages. I also like that if one page crashes, it doesn’t crash the whole browser.

Google Chrome recently announced support for extensions. As of right now, this is only a feature on the PC version, but you can use them on the Mac version if you are brave enough to run their dev channel release.

So, if your browser has been giving you fits lately, give Google Chrome a try. You may find yourself a new default browser.