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I recently switched back to Firefox from a two week test drive of Chrome, reasons:

* I don't like how the display of a lot of tabs are handled (dozens of really small unreadable tabs)

* No NoScript (found one extension that didn't work very well)

* It doesn't feel that much faster with dozens of open tabs

* I prefer FF's interface

* Uncertainty about what data is shared with Google

Integration with Google's other services is not a selling point for me.

I now have an "Open in Chrome" item in my context menu for opening Planet Wars replays.

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Completely agree, specifically with these items:

* I don't like how the display of a lot of tabs are handled (dozens of really small unreadable tabs)

I wish Chrome had something like Tree Style Tabs (vertical tab panel on the left).

* It doesn't feel that much faster with dozens of open tabs

For me, it feels much, much slower when you have 30 tabs open - which are all visible because of Tree Style Tabs.

If I need to look at one website quickly and FF isn't open, I'll use Chrome. Otherwise, it's all Firefox.

If you run the dev channel version of Chrome, you can enable vertical tabs by browsing to about:labs and switching it on.

You don't have to use Chrome, Chromium works as well and I don't believe it shares data with Google.

Also while I'm not a huge fan of lots of small unreadable tabs, I'm not really a fan of scrolling tabs either, it just seems so slow. I typically just group like tabs into their own windows and it isn't really much of an issue anymore.

The only reason I don't use Chrome is because of the Google info sharing. Chromium is unclear as to weather it actually shares data or not. I believe at one point there was a bug where it was definitely connecting to googles servers. I believe they fixed it, but it was enough to keep me on Firefox.

Re: Uncertainty about what data is shared with Google, for OS X users Little Snitch ( http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html ) is an eye-opening (and quite possibly alarming) way to see just how much data an application is sending out from your computer. Chrome is very "chatty."

I do not know the names of equivalent software for *nix or Windows. Does anyone else?

Chrome actually does have a method of blocking Javascript. It might still be in the beta channel for now, but if you go to Options->Under the Hood->Content settings, there is a Javascript tab that lets you disable javascript except for whitelisted sites.

Yes, I found that option. That part of Chrome is just not as mature as NoScript and Chrome doesn't offer me enough in other respects to ignore it.

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