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I doubt that the patch helps in this particular case as all images are present in the DOM, so Firefox will merrily load all of the images, independent of whether they are visible o…

No, by their own admission Firefox just sucks at displaying pages with a lot of images such as this one [1]. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683284

Mea culpa, I didn't want to steal the thunder from the great guys at Opera. From my end user perspective I only remember Opera supporting the tag in a version which was released al…

I know I start sounding like a broken record for those who read my comments regularly in these kind of threads, but I always feel inclined to point out that Chrome's much-lauded ar…

Firebug is most likely the culprit [1]. Firefox 15 will have a general fix for the kind of memory leaks such as the one caused by Firebug (affectionately called "Hueyfix" after its…

This is probably why so many features from Mozilla end up in other browsers: -Notification bar in pretty much all browsers. -Doorhanger panels -Download pane which Safari managed t…

Unfortunately one misbehaving extension is enough to break Firefox' memory usage. I ran a fresh profile without any extensions for a few days recently and it was a marvel: Firefox …

Unfortunately Google's policy doesn't cause only malicious extensions to be removed from their web store. For instance, All Mangas Reader, a combined reader and management tool for…

FWIW if you switch Firefox to small icon mode, hide the addon bar (previously status bar) and the bookmark bar, then Firefox only has a few vertical pixel less than Chrome for the …

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257061 The bug is 8 years old and nobody seems to be working on it. I wouldn't hold my breath that it will be fixed soon.

Depending on the site page loading can still badly affect interface responsiveness. There are a number of projects to alleviate this under the umbrella of the Snappy project[1] but…

"I think it's a bit more resource-hungry than Chrome" Depends on what you measure and your usage patterns. Firefox runs circles around Chrome with regards to memory usage and featu…

No, it has nothing to do with loyalty but with utility and how you weigh the different feature sets of each browser (speed et al. being features as well for the sake of this discus…

Once SPDYv3 is enabled in a release channel the Chrome installations which only support an outdated SPDY version will rise suddenly if the current update trend is not reversed in a…

SPDY is in a better position to dictate the development of HTTP 2.0 as there are already two independent implementation in the wild, unlike S+M which so far only exists as a concep…

The problem with Chrome not having such an option is not just limited to startup time when restoring a session. Having too many open tabs causes the resource consumption to go thro…

Apparently not. There's an ever growing tail of users who get stuck with an outdated version [1]. It's not as bad as Firefox yet but surprising nonetheless given how much effort Go…

Why is this marked as "Chrome only"? I can't spot any errors with Firefox 13.

Earth will easily survive humanity, even if we carpet bomb the surface with nuclear weapons. Even life is very likely to survive in its own niches as it has done during past global…

I'll just add another data point. After the release of VLC 2.0 I was slightly dissatisfied with the new interface on OS X and used the opportunity to try out a couple of alternativ…

1. Nature is not "smart", it is not a conscious entity. So neither can we outsmart it nor can it outsmart us. 2. I strongly dislike the dichotomy between nature and humans. Our spe…

Humans, due to their highly evolved brains, have accumulated such a vast amount of knowledge that we can adapt our environment to suit our needs as we have been doing for the past …

Yeah, there are probably several factors which assisted Chrome's rise to prominence. Obviously Google's huge marketing power and their bundling deals can't be disregarded easily bu…

"You can tell if an extension is using the Jetpack API if it doesn't require a browser restart to install." Not necessarily. "Traditional" extensions can be extended to support bei…