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On my mac I avoid chrome and firefox, mainly because the the zoomable interface in safari is so nice. Maybe if I had better eye sight it wouldn't be a big deal, but I find I miss it immediately when I'm using an alternative browser.


I assume you are talking about "pinch to zoom" ? Chromium has smooth pinch to zoom also just like Safari. Firefox however, does not.

It's basically the 1 reason i stopped using Firefox, zooming (pinch to zoom) absolutely sucks as opposed to Safari/Chromium. Pinch to zoom in Firefox feels like going 20 years back in time...


Is chromium different than chrome?


uhh yes, [sarcastic] for one, Chromium has a little less spyware as opposed to Google Chrome :-) [/sarcastic]

just google "chrome vs chromium", here's the first hit: http://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what%E2%80%99s-the-differenc...




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