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Chrome or Firefox - any recommendations

I'm a Opera user normally, with the occasional foray into IE territory mainly to use my bank. I have neither Chrome or Firefox, but I'm willing to give it a try in order to try out/use Roll20. Which one works better for Roll20? Or, if there's no clear choice, is there a better choice for other reasons? I don't plan on using this other browser for anything other than Roll20, so additional functionality is not a consideration. thanks.
I use Pale Moon personally, which is a build of Firefox that removes all the legacy code, giving it a small performance increase. Basically, it's low on the resources but has the features of Firefox should you need them.
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I use Chrome. I find Firefox can sometimes be a resource drain on my PC and I personally don't use the modability that Firefox offers.
Chrome, a thousand times Chrome :) I've had far less trouble with it (not just on roll20, but everywhere). Better on resources, and more screen real-estate, since there's less frame, and more window.
Also, Chrome has that nice "inspect" feature build-in, that allows you to tweak your screen space on the fly. It takes just a couple of clicks to move the g+ video bar to the top of your screen...
I use Opera also due to its syncing abilities. So Chrome is the recommendation?
I decided to try both and see if either sucked any less than my last experience. The answer is no, but FF is FAR smaller. While my Opera installation has accumulated a decade's worth of bookmarks, skins, cookies, and extensions (including Greasemonkey, believe it or not), it is still smaller than a clean install of Firefox (and has everything I need and then some built in; for FF I need to add a bunch of extensions to even make it serviceable). But Chrome, for some completely absurd reason, is over 100 MiB – more than twice the size of FF, and three times the size of Opera my (or roughly 7 times the size of clean install of Opera, which was about 15 MiB the last time I did one). EDIT: Finally found Chrome so I don't need to guess on its size. For some equally absurd reason, it installed itself in /users/fewilcox/appdata instead of Program Files (stupid programmers screwing with my folder tree; grrrr). It weighs in not at a bit over 100 MiB like when it was first released – it is now nearly THREE HUNDRED, yet still has only minimal features. Sheesh. My laptop simply can't waste that much space on something so mostly useless, so now I'm off to reclaim 300 MiB of space that is far better spent holding our CD collection once I finish ripping it. So I went with FF simply because I didn't want to waste more drive space than I had to on a browser I only needed for one website. I just can't give up Fast Forward, Tab Stacking, or being able to cycle tabs in recently used orders, the way Windows does, instead of only in the order they are the tab bar (especially since the various projects I'm working on now mean I have more than 100 tabs at the moment; finishing one project up shortly, then I can close about a dozen of them). On that note, I really wish they'd do with Roll20 what Google does with their various HTML 5 projects and simply warn you that your browser might not work instead of refusing to let you try. Websites telling me what browser to use annoys me so much I wouldn't have Kicked Roll20 had I known they did that. For the record, except for Wave, I've only ever had very minor issues with Google's HTML 5 stuff that said they won't work in Opera, so the same may be true of Roll20 but they won't let us find out.
Has anyone used safari? maybe using an ipad?
Only to browse the forums. I get an error message when I try to launch one of my campaigns using Safari on the iPad.
Android app please
For me (OSX 10.7), Firefox doesn't work at all (just shows the text without formatting), so Chrome is the choice.
...but they won't let us find out. Actually, there is a way to use Roll20 with pretty much any browser. They are simply checking the user agent and with a quick Google search and some fiddling with IE9's dev tools I got it running. There were some formatting issues (I bet because of some CSS3 stuff that's not even a full W3C spec yet ;-) ) but I didn't notice any malfunctions or other errors. That said, I agree with you that I find it EXTREMELY ANNOYING if a website tries to tell me which browser to use. Reminds me (and not in a good way) of some years ago when you could read stuff like "This website has been optimized for Internet Explorer 6 and a resolution of 800x600" on many sites.
We ran a game last night through the Google+ Integration where all the other players and DM were running FF with heavy lag issues, besides myself who ran Chrome with no issue at all. Our DM decided to load up Chrome on a break a found his lag completely dropped. Anyone else notice such things?