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Technology tip

May 25, 2015 By SomervilleTom

Google chrome is WAY faster than Firefox (v38.0.1) and does NOT suffer from the annoying loss-of-focus bug that Mozilla insists is not a Mozilla bug.

It seems that Mozilla and Adobe are arguing about whether said bug is a Flash or Mozilla bug. The result is that recent versions of Firefox, on Windows 7 Pro, frequently and without warning pull the keyboard focus out of a page edit window, often while in mid-typing. Since I can’t control the content of the various ads served with any modern web page, as a user I have virtually NO ability to solve this problem.

Changing to Chrome solved the problem AND made BMG page loading effectively instantaneous.

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  1. Mark L. Bail says

    May 25, 2015 at 5:07 pm

    Chrome.

  2. merrimackguy says

    May 26, 2015 at 12:42 pm

    but otherwise I’m okay with Chrome.

  3. johntmay says

    May 27, 2015 at 7:55 pm

    I spent two hours on the phone with a support guy from Verizon to try and figure out why my internet connection was running at a snail’s pace. After he told me to make a few changes and “wait 24 hours”, I decided to switch from Firefox to Chrome. Bingo, problem solved.

  4. sabutai says

    May 27, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    Bad enough my phone uses Droid. I don’t want to use Chrome and give Google far more stuff to fatten their file on me.

    • kirth says

      May 28, 2015 at 7:16 am

      Google’s idea of what “don’t be evil” means does not entirely jibe with mine. Their entire business model seems to be accumulating as much user data as possible, then selling it.

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