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Chrome is an insane ram hog. It is inexcusable to be using >400MB per tab, but I see that all the time.
I don't know how much my tabs use, but it isn't 400MB or I'd have ran out of RAM a hundred tabs ago...
Wow, it really is blazing fast, and just at a glance I like what they're doing with the dev tools. Unfortunately... > Vimperator : "This add-on is not compatible with your version of Firefox." Ouch. Guess I might need to wait a bit to make this my daily driver. All in all, though, I have to say I'm really glad to see Firefox is still solidly in this race - and with a kick ass and quite possibly superior product to bo…
Vimperator, unfortunately, appears to be one of the few extensions that can never be fully ported, as it made use of API's that implied a security risk.
> No other browser can do this. Every other browser can, they just don't as of now.
Oh boy, I'll bite. As you're probably well aware, several words in the english language have more than a single authoritative meaning. The version of 'can' they were probably using is: "Used to indicate possession of a specified capability or skill". If the others do not currently possess that ability, then they cannot.
I see the improvents coming with this update. I hope that’s the beginning of Firefox catching up again.
Keep up the great work!
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The lack of LastPass is a pain, however it made me discover BitWarden, which is free, open source, has 2FA, has working firefox & chrome plugins, and iOS/Android apps. It is also trivial to import your LastPass data into bitwarden. It's definitely worth giving it a try. (The LastPass firefox app also seemed to use a lot of CPU for some reason, I have no idea how that was possible?) Note: It doesn't support all of Las…
Bitwarden also doesn’t support per login “re-enter master password”.
Or do you mean something like 'you must re-enter your master password for particular sites'?
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This has been my experience also. However, I'll try Quantum and see if it improves the situation. I really don't want to be using Chrome.
57 really is a huge improvement, I can no longer feel any difference in responsiveness between firefox and chrome. In some ways I think firefox has actually surpassed chrome (e.g. on my xps 13 touchpad scrolling is much more responsive/smoother in firefox)
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I switched to Chrome years ago and every time I try Firefox it feels sluggish, so I don't switch back. Last time was a week ago :\
The key is, which version a week ago? Unless it was nightly you wouldn't have seen any of the stuff in the OP.
I just had the feeling that Firefox has news to be on-par with Chrome for years now, but I never really "felt" it, hehe.
As someone that jumped ship from how slow Chrome has gotten and went to Nightly /w Stylo and (CPU threads - 1) e10s processes enabled about 2 monthsish ago... Holy damn Firefox is actually fast. Fair comparison, both having Pocket, uBlock, Evernote, OneNote, Pushbullet, and Bitwarden; neither of them having an extension the other doesn't. Above described Firefox Nightly config vs Chrome Dev. Test machines are a works…
Nightly has been amazing. I’m just waiting on LastPass before I switch full time.
(Previous HN discussion was flagged as a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15338795)