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I'll stick with firefox, it has all my extensions, and toolbars, and greasemonkey scripts that I use for work.

And to be honest I like the user experience a lot more, it's much more intuitive.

I still use chrome, since it's my tor proxied browser, but the user experience is just horrible compared to firefox.

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In what way?

Not operable exclusively from the keyboard, and it ignores your window manager and draws its own window decorations.

I wouldn't trade tabs-on-top for anything. The single most common mouse action in a browser (or my browser, I should say) is to switch between tabs. In addition to the Fitts' Law benefit of having tabs on the edge, there's the ability to move the pointer smoothly from left to right on the tab bar without having to ever readjust up/down to hit the target tab.

There's an option to use the window manager's title bar and controls. At least, there is on Linux.

firebug and webmaster tools for development, a few tools to help with SEO, a few tools to see site statistics at my fingertips etc.

I mean sure Chrome starts up faster, but I never close firefox, so it's not that big of a deal for me

as far as user experience, it's just that nothing is where I am used to things being. There is no file > edit > view navigation, in fact all the navigation is on the right side, when everywhere else it's on the left side. And it's all condensed to two 2 menus(images), which are stuck somewhere off to the side. + there is the lack of coherent tabs...if you have multiple tabs open, with firefox, you can read everything, since it allows scrolling, with Chrome you just have 40 unnamed tabs on top.

You might want to take a look at the Chrome VerticalTabs extension:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/imimolldggofidcm...

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