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I use FireFox for work and Chrome for surfing function/speed respectively.

FireFox keeps all my tabs nicely open, I can have all the helpful plugins installed on it. Chrome is completely fresh install, with only xMarks plugin to remain fast.

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I noticed the other day how I was using Chrome basically all the time at home even though I have Firefox setup with some very useful plugins that work well. I think it all comes down to speed. Anyone know of any good metrics on performance of chrome vs. firefox?

I just noticed that I'm instinctively using 3-4 browsers too at work and at home on a single machine.

At work I'm using Chrome for everyday browsing, Firefox/Firebug for heavy development and Opera for personal stuff (Gmail).

At home I use Safari for everyday browsing, Chromium for news/social web and Firefox for Google Reader.

i really like the fact that if the browser crashes or wants to update I don't loose everything I'm doing, only a part of it. It also allows me to focus on a task rather than a bunch of unrelated websites.

Is that a general trend ?

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