Firefox and Chrome are the only two browsers that I use. Firefox is the primary and Chrome is the backup. A determination of which is the better browser is bound to be subjective. How does one define better? Does is come down to speed, reliability, rapid fixes for exploits or a combination of those attributes.
I'm inclined to believe that Firefox and Chrome are in the same ballpark in all of those things. To Google Chrome's credit, it isn't nearly the resource hog that a fully loaded installation of Firefox is. Albeit, that doesn't matter so much in these days of cheap RAM and 64 bit computers that can address tons of it. My rather modest desktop has 8 gigabytes of RAM installed and if the motherboard would accommodate it, I'd have at least 16 gigabytes.
Where Firefox pulls away is in customization and extensibility. Google Chrome has made significant strides with the introduction of their own extensions. However, Firefox still has the upper hand. I have 25 extensions installed in Firefox. I use them all on a daily basis, so much so that the way that I use the web is dependent on them.
Moreover, while Chromium (the project on which Chrome is based) is open source, Google Chrome is not. Mozilla Firefox remains an open source affair, and the ability to peruse the source code (even though I probably won't) is comforting.
So, in my admittedly subjective estimation, Firefox remains the king.
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