What happened to Firefox focusing on Linux responsiveness? They even acknowledged it as an issue and promised to work on it, but I've yet to see that occur at all.
Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser
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#12This seems a bit overblown for what amounts to a performance bug in a feature that few people even use (bookmarks).
Do people not use bookmarks? I have thousands of them. What are the alternatives that I'm missing out on? (big xmarks user too so sync is a must)
Most people use Google, or something like Facebook gets autocompleted.
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#13I feel the same pain ... I've switched away from Firefox now and only use it when I'm compatibility testing my applications/sites.
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#14I dropped FF b/c of the memory leak. As a test, on a spare mac I wrote a script that launched FF and Chrome simultaneously and visited 10 websites I frequent. They both had similar clean profiles. After roughly two days of continuous refresh/load cycles, Chrome's memory was at 148MB, FF was 988MB.
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#15I am a bit in the same situation as the author, using Firefox since before it was called Firefox, on all platforms and advocating it very widely.
But, it is hard to go on advocating it. True, they fixed many issues on JS speed and memory with the latest releases (after denying the issues for a loooong time).
However, the slowness of the SQlite backend is quite annoying, as mentioned on the article. The SSL management is beyond ridiculous, especially when the whole model of Certificate Authorities is broken, as the news showed us. The breakage of extensions at each update is abnormal. The Linux integration is abysmal... And yet, at each release, it seems the focuses on UI changes are the more important...
IE9 is now decent, Chrome is really good and Opera too. All most of my developers friends have moved to Chrome...
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#16Cross-browser bookmarks compatibility is the one reason I'm having hard time giving up on Firefox, otherwise, Chrome is certainly faster and better overall. The other issue is that bookmarks are not easily portable on cloud (don't talk to me about delicious or xmarks - I prefer to keep my bookmarks to myself). What if I use Chrome most of the time at home but can't if I'm using library or work computer? There are issues which are still unresolved in the browser world.
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#17This longstanding bug has been found and fixed in the past few weeks. There’s a workaround as well (use the Places Maintenance addon to properly index your Places database).
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#19The new rapid release development cycle has bit Mozilla in the rear. For example, FF 7.0.1 on Vista needs to be run as Administrator. I didn't find this out until it just stopped working on my wife's laptop.
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#20At least with Firefox you don't have to deal with things like this: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467
When Firefox dropped http:// at least they gave you the ability to turn it back on!