5 Reasons Google Chrome Sucks
September 6, 2008 by Tom
So now that Google Chrome has filtered down to us mere peasants, it’s time to highlight it’s weaknesses and compare it to the best - Firefox. So here are 5 reasons why Chrome sucks and why we won’t be using it until they get these things sorted….
1. No Add Ons
One reason why i won’t be touching Google Chrome is the fact i have no email add-ons to alert me instantly when i get email. We also have no pagerank / stats on hand plus none of those cool firefox add ons like ‘firebug’ that we’ve gotten so used to. Boooohh!
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2. No Multiple Search Engines
I know Chrome is made by Google, but what’s with the Google-only search feature? It’s hassle to change the default search engine in Chrome and i can’t search youtube or flickr or wikipedia with a simple drop down change of engine like i can with Firefox.
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3. More Typing For Me
When in Firefox, all i have to do is type youtube in to the address bar and Firefox automatically knows i want to go to youtube.com. In Chrome i have to add youtube.com (4 extra characters) to get to youtube.
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4. No Home Button!
Where’s the home button in Google Chrome? There is none. I have to open a new tab to get my homepage up. WTF Google! Bring back the home button!
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5. It’s Not Firefox
Is it just me or do i not recall Google paying people to promote Firefox? All of a sudden the big G turns around and stabs Firefox in the back by releasing it’s own browser. What’s all that about?
First of all, you have to go to the wrench on the top left and click on options, then go to basics and Home Page and click “Show home button”. By the way, IT’S BETA DUMBASS
dude , just add youtube as a bookmark and then all u have to do is click it once. THAT means you dont have to type one letter. all u have to do is click
Look all the points you say are valid, but we all know the big G so you never know what it will be after it does away with the beta version, browsing is really faster than any other browser, all we can do it to wait for the full release. Hoping for the best!!!
Are you fucking retarded? No, seriously. Are you?
Add ons suck, a normal browser got everything it needs without downloading and adding crap to it (like ff).
Get some solid facts first, there are more search engines then google built in the browser. You can pick your own default search engine in the browser to what ever fits you.
Do you type all your favorite websites? Really fucking dumb, it’s a complete waste of time since you can add bookmarks, hotkeys and icons instead of typing. Instead of evening typing “youtube” you can type “yo” and pick “youtube.com” in the alternative adress field.
Home button, once again you can take the alternative and smart solution up here if you really think opening a new tab is that hard.
It’s not Firefox?!?!?! THANK GOD!! I think I might be able to use Chrome now.
Have a nice day FFfag.
In my opinion, Chrome is just…. unnecessary. It’s just Google’s way of infiltrating another market… Remember when Microsoft tried to handle every market, and EU was like “lol, NO.” and forced them to ship WMP-less XPs? That’s almost Google now, sans the operating system. They use their massive manpower to churn out products in new markets, regardless of whether or not we need them. Everybody already has their preferred browser, so why try to add another choice that really brings nothing ‘revolutionary’ to the table except an ugly blue interface that has been dumbed down so much, it almost reminds me of those cheap $100 laptops for starving African kids. Any other ‘feature’ is just… a gimmick that only appeals to a niche group.
Oh the irony of being so pissed off about having to type out something like “.com” that you write a whole rant on it.
I love Chrome. It’s quick and fast, not eating memory so much. The other advantage over Firefox is one tab will not disturb another tab performance. So if you stuck on tab, you can easily move to another tab or abandon that tab (website). They are completely separate each other. Adds-on? It will come soon….but Adds-on will choke Chrome later like Firefox !!
Heh, love all the replies to this especially the ones that are flat out taking the piss out of you
- I couldn’t agree more, Chrome is just starting out in Beta what more can you expect? You’re whining about how you need to add an extra .com to things, wow what a load of crap 
Point #2 - It’s not a hassle to change the search engine. You click the wrench icon on the right hand side (next to the address bar), click the ‘Basics’ tab, then change your default search engine in the erm… ‘Default search’ section. And if you want to search within a specific site, then you just type in the address, press the ‘tab’ button and go ahead and search. It works with any website that has a search function, not just the obvious ones.
Point #3 - In Google Chrome all I have to do is type ‘y’, the address for Youtube.com comes up and then I press enter. **one letter** Chrome tracks how often you visit a site and based on that, common addresses show up in the bar. (eg. typing ‘m’ gives my mininova.com, but typing ‘mo’ gives me my address to my blog).
Point #5 - It’s business. And Google aren’t ’stabbing’ FF in the back. They’re just offering a different browsing experience. There are pros and cons with both browsers.
I’ve used Chrome for a few months now, but I’m now trying to get back into FF cos of its add-ons. But Chrome minus add-ons is still pretty cool, and no doubt I’ll switch between the two depending on my mood.
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Yes, Google sucks - big time - but for more reasons than you mention. How about its inability to handle rss, or its incorrect rendering of many Javascript applications? Firefox has made dramatic improvement over the last several months, partly because it now follows Microsoft’s rules when there’s a conflict between the latter and Mozilla. And this has long been a problem with the IE imitators. They’ve failed to understand (or admit) that the Windows Operating System was created by Microsoft, so it’s Microsoft and not Mozilla who has the final word. I like Firefox, but still prefer Internet Explorer because I don’t like having to be forced to add spyware such as Quicktim or crapware, in order to view certain multimedia content. When I click on multimedia content I don’t like being told that I have to download add-on software for the crippled Firefox.
Omg god first i have to say i have my issue with Chrome but some of these reason are RETARDED. Adding a home easy, like someone else mention it tracks your webites frequency so less typing, also changing the default is easy, Lastly another said ” i can’t search youtube or flickr or wikipedia with a simple drop down change of engine like i can with Firefox.” On Chrome you don’t need a drop down because you can simply type the name of the address of the site you want to search then press tab. (for this too work you have to visit and search the site a least one time)
GOOGLE CHROME SUCKS ASS!!!
Chris
I love Chrome more now then ever and I love it more than I love my IT Dept. Because they are babies when it come to someone using a better system than FireFart.
Google Chrome is unnecessary and actually freezes slow motion every once in a while while firefox is so ultra fast! also sometimes the tabs become loose from the other set when i didnt mean to click on it. its NOT worth the hassle. Even Safari is better than Chrome …chrome is a drone….:P
dont use chrome unless you want to be bombarded by unnecessary things
I don’t use a Chrome, Firefox or IE. They all suck and are so mainstream it’s embarrassing. I use Magazzle browser. You Neanderthals probably haven’t even heard of it because you are the gormless, all-too-willing obedient slaves of the main stream software pushers. Only computer / IT pros who, like me, are in the REAL know can get hold of the very fast, ultra-stable, inter-operable and very much underground Magazzle browser from the ‘closed art’ internet sites. I bet you haven’t even heard of the ‘closed art’ sites, oh dear!
In 2 years perhaps the commercialised version will probably drip down to you. By this time us advanced ones will have moved on to something far, far more innovative, better and way ahead of the time.
Weep you losers.
Gregory - i wish i was like you
i run IE5 on windows ME
and feel like such a retard now
if i used google chrome would i get a bit cooler do you think?
you forgot the “homephone-function” of chrome
google collect data of everything you do, beware!
The lack of autofill and pagerank, and some (small) browsing issues are my only problem with chrome. I use it instead of FF now. Mostly for the speed and the fact that the screen has less thats unnecessary. Plus NO pop-ups! not even that little thing (taking up more space till you close it) that says “firefox has just stopped a pop-up”
BTW South Park fans … The gentleman (above) Gregory Peck on June 6th, 2009 12:03 am …is A.) The biggest douche in the universe. Or, B.) The Oaf the kids played against in the WOW episode.
dear author,
you are an ass.
See ya in hell,
JC
I was warned in googoo to switch to googoo chrome because regular googoo was going to not be supported anymore. I did so and am sofaking disappointed. Everything is extremely different kinda like going from Windows to Mac. WTF!!!!!
are these guys so arrogant that they thing they will keep people instead of lose them like hot potatoes with all of these drastically inefficient and different choices. already looking for another browser and email to land on. will give the goog a week but do not ’spect it to come around.
Chrome sucks primarily because it doesn’t have addons.
For Dan:If I’m not a programmer, why the heck would I need a tool like firebug, by default, in my browser, it will just eat up my ram for nothing, as I will NEVER use it, on the other hand, if I am a programmer, it would be just plain stupid not to have Firebug and GreaseMonkey installed. So what solution do you find? two entirely separate browsers for normal users and programmers. And the world isn’t divided in just 2 categories. What about music addicts(which love tools like foxytunes),or youtube-like video downloaders. Should they also have a special edition with all the tools they need preinstalled? And that’s not all, what should a music addict programmer choose?
A browser without addons is good only for totally n00bs, who call microsoft for support about their broken PC coffe support(aka the optical drive). Untill now, Firefox is the only browser with enough addons. The only problem Firefox has are the memory leaks, so you have to close the browser and reopen it, after you open and close about 100 tabs. This is quite annoying, I like to keep my browser open all time.
My beef w/ Chrome right now.
#1: when you new tab, it shows screenshots of pages I’ve been (history). It can’t be turned off or disabled.
#2: no static search bar. yes I know the address bar is a search, but get about 12 pages deep past your search then decide you want to do another search but just change the keywords or add “quotations” . You’re used to just going up to your static search bar and altering the words STILL DISPLAYED. Nope the only way to see what your initial search is to hit the ‘page back’ button a billion times.
#3: Auto-suggest. When using the omni-bar, chrome can’t distinguish between if your typing in an url, or if are you typing in a search term. So its frantically auto-suggesting everything from browsing history.
I just try google Chrome now. It really sucks. It is beyond my imagination how bad
it is.
check out this page using FF, IE, and Chrome to see what I mean SUCKS !!!!
http://218.103.16.209/X/tsRFSWLL/WS00741LSLU.html
i tried chrome, didnt like it, the feel of the browser was like a toy and not a tool, i dont need my browser or any other program for that matter to be pretty, i need them to compatible with my other needs and work when i tell it to. i find chrome to be very lacking in ASP support, very lacking in proper java support, and VERY lacking in proper formatting and frame support. if your a web developer chrome bites the big one. firefox and safari all the way, for that matter i would use IE8 before chrome.
You niggers are chrome fags.
Google is also violently OPPOSED to your privacy. They love to collect data about you to sell to any and every Joe on the street. Check out info on the “DoubleClick” company or any other of the Ad companies that Google has bought. They’re turning into a evil fucking Big Brother. Stick with Firefox, it has way more potential in the OpenSource community.
fuck you all! Chrome sucks like your moms dick. Why change to something thats trying so hard to be like Firefox? Because you guys would jump in any google wagon just to get a piece of that google dick you dip shits. Get laid!
I know that Firefox is better than Chrome, but, all points that you said in your post are useless.
Firefox is better for other stuff, but not these useless stuffs that you said.
From the moment I touched chrome (chromium on my Gentoo box) I’ve never used Firefox (except on Mac)….
The only thing I’ve missed is add-ons.
They have add ons in the form of extensions, one to alert you of unviewd mail to.
crome sucks with youtube
nice 4 surfing but for watching videos really sucks
Whatever. Only a moron would release a Beta product with as many holes in it as Chrome. Google is the new Microsoft. Microsoft is the new Boeing. And Boeing is the new US Steel. They all suck.
Hey dude… I love browsing chrome….Now i cant go back for my fav. firefox even…its the best
By now all these u said are fixed except plugins.
Doesnt seems to be too bad.
hahaha dude you sux, CHROME is the best instead of addons they call it “EXTENSIONS” which they have a real different and useful varities of them.. its faster than firefox and its lighter..also it does have a big home icon rite next to the address bar….try it out for a couple days and tell me its not faster… i love firefox but man CHROME just got me hookd! LOL
Google search engine rocks, gmail rocks, but crome? My god what a clunky browser!
It is VERY memory intensive, requiring twice as many resources as firefox as soon as I open a couple of tabs, and where I used to go to the menu to delete my browsing history, now I have to open the history page up?!
If I don’t want my missus to view my daily porn surf, why the hell do I want a whole list of full porn site names, full screen and then have it sit there while chrome thinks about deleting it?!!
The firefox method is way better, a simple option box that then actually lets you choose how much you are removing, eg. just the browsin, or cookies and passwords as well.
You are just TOO lazy !!!
Google Chrome sucks just because it’s not a final version.
@dan: i think you are the first person to say addons suck!
are u kidding? aren’t u??