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		<title>I Remember Now Why I Always End Up Switching Back to Firefox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CajoleJuice</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[browser war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only a month ago, I said that I had probably made a permanent move to Google Chrome as my primary internet browser, but its bugs and quirks are starting to wear on me. This has happened at least a couple of times before.
- The slow animated GIF problem will always be there. And in addition [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Only a month ago, I said that <a href="http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/03/22/i-think-ive-made-a-permanent-move-to-google-chrome/">I had probably made a permanent move to Google Chrome</a> as my primary internet browser, but its bugs and quirks are starting to wear on me. This has happened at least a couple of times before.</p>
<p>- The slow animated GIF problem will always be there. And in addition to that, I had heard some Mac users complain about how GIFs need to load completely before they animated at all, but I hadn&#8217;t come across it until a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully, it only lasted for a day or two. I have no idea what happened.</p>
<p>- When I was recently looking for info on golf handicaps, I was directed to About.com and when I got there, the correct formatting flashed for about 0.3 seconds before reverting back to a 1995-style webpage with no formatting whatsoever. I try reloading numerous times and the same thing happened everytime. And it happened with a bunch of About.com pages. But hey, it seems to be working now!</p>
<p>- Highlighting text can be extremely wonky sometimes. I have no way to expand on this &#8212; it&#8217;s just very annoying.</p>
<p>- Almost every time I click on the &#8220;Publish&#8221; button after finishing up a blog post, it ends up loading forever and I need to highlight my entire post and copy it and then refresh the page and paste it back in the editing box and hit &#8220;Publish&#8221; again. I even tried hitting &#8220;Save Draft&#8221; before attempting to publish, and while it worked the first time around, that was not indicative of future attempts.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2010/03/22/i-think-ive-made-a-permanent-move-to-google-chrome/#comment-11683">As someone commented in my last Chrome-related post</a>, the search bar (apparently called the OmniBox?) is not nearly as quick as the Firefox AwesomeBar. It is also much less reliable.</p>
<p>- In preparation for my Song of the Week post yesterday, I attempted to listen to the direct link of &#8220;Sorrow&#8221; only to greeted with a second of painful corruption noise before the song actually started. I thought the song got corrupted during its upload to my webspace, but when I tested it in Firefox, it was totally fine. And when I tested it within its Flash player in the actual blog post, it was also fine. Bizarre.</p>
<p>These complaints aren&#8217;t enough to push me back to Firefox because it&#8217;s much easier to stick with the status quo, and that is now Chrome for me, minor frustrating issues aside. It just sheds some light on why Chrome hasn&#8217;t eaten much into Firefox&#8217;s marketshare; IE has been the browser hurt most by Chrome since the latter&#8217;s release.</p>
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