I see lots of unfair complaining here. I'm still running FF even on machines with 1GB of RAM, and I actually had troubles with memory leaks on Mac, that were mostly related to some extensions.
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#22As a dev, FF was my go-to utility browser due to Firebug. Google released Chrome, and I found myself using FF rarely. I rebuilt a laptop recently. After loading it up with software, it was a good 3 weeks before I even noticed that I didn't have FF installed.
I've had a similar experience. I've really come to appreciate Chrome's built in developer tools and have pretty much left Firebug in the dust.
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#23I'm excited for Ubuntu 11.10 if only because it means I can flatten and reinstall, thus relieving me of Firefox's performance woes for another few months. It's really crazy the amount of memory it uses and the slowdowns that happen when you keep it open for more than a few hours.
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#24Chrome hang's too, especially when I have 12 engadget tabs open on engadget. Firefox not so much then I have those same 12 tabs. This is on OSX.
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#25This 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)
I haven't used the built-in bookmarks feature for years. I checked just now, and I have 10 bookmarks stored (all of them used for quick searching in FF). I still use the concept though, I just offload them to Delicious where they can be properly tagged and shared.
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#26At 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!
I'm impressed by the passion with which people want http:// back in their URLs. Perhaps it's tangential to the original thread, but why's it such a big deal?
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#27The 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.
Uh, no, of course it doesn't. Something is seriously fubar on your side.
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#28Yep, same problem. Firefox hangs whenever I try to do anything "intensive" with Places, such as selectively deleting stuff from the history or reorganizing a large number of bookmarks. It's gotten much better than before, though.
Weird thing is, Firefox is still faster than Chrome on my computer (Win7x64). I don't know what's wrong with my computer, but Chrome is noticeably slower than Firefox in day-to-day use. This only happens on this particular computer. Chrome is indeed faster in every other computer I've tried. Very strange.
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#29I 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…
And yet, at each release, it seems the focuses on UI changes are the more important...
I've seen almost no UI changes in Firefox 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. All the change-logs were basically backend optimizations.
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#30At 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!
I will take that 'issue' over the sluggishness of Firefox on my Macbook any day of the week.