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Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#91

Post by lelandbatey »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #89

I'm on Aurora right now (15a2), and after YEARS of bitching am cautiously optimistic this is really it! Just a few weeks ago I was closing FF once a twice a day as it approached almost a GB of RAM. Now it's holding steady at under 230mb! I have few extensions, but use firebug. I knew it was part of the problem but it's unfortunately essential for me. With this fixed perhaps they can now work on tab isolation, another…

Wow, that's actually very nice in terms of RAM usage. Right now in chrome, with only 6 tabs open I am using (according to about:memory)800MB of RAM[1]. I may very well switch back to Firefox if I can get performance like that.

[1]http://puu.sh/JXL9

Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#92

Post by cpeterso »

alttab wrote: post #66
antidoh wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I have started to hear more stories about folks switching back to Firefox because a lot of their issues with the browser have been fixed" There was a time, some number of releases ago (a year ago?) when FF's memory problems became too much for me, and I used Chrome(ium). I never liked it, personal preference. Finally some time within that last year FF became acceptable again, then more than acceptable, and I came ba…

As a dev I moved to chrome for all the reasons everyone else did. Now I'm seeing chrome renderer chewing all my ram across multiple processes, and actually have had it crash a number of times. Google, don't think I won't switch again, because I will.

Here's how to import your Chrome bookmarks, history, and cookies into Firefox:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google...

Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#93

Post by cpeterso »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #73
jhatax wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox lost market share because Chrome was a leaner, faster, and better browser. I have started to hear more stories about folks switching back to Firefox because a lot of their issues with the browser have been fixed. And based on independent review sites like Tom's Hardware, there is no longer an appreciable gap in the performance of Firefox and Chrome. As regards market share, Firefox's market share would be in…

>Firefox lost market share because Chrome was a leaner, faster, and better browser. Not to mention secure. Sandboxed PDF reader, java whitelisting, sandboxed and auto-updating flash, etc while FF and IE were arrogantly telling users "Fuck you, update your own add ons, they're not our problem" even when all the exploits were from these add ons. Now IE and FF ape some of these features. I can't wait to hear the next an…

btw, Firefox 14 bundles Mozilla's pdf.js, a PDF viewer written in JavaScript:

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/03/23/firefox-14-gets-built-in-pd...

Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#94

Post by mixmastamyk »

lelandbatey wrote: post #91
mixmastamyk wrote: post #89

I'm on Aurora right now (15a2), and after YEARS of bitching am cautiously optimistic this is really it! Just a few weeks ago I was closing FF once a twice a day as it approached almost a GB of RAM. Now it's holding steady at under 230mb! I have few extensions, but use firebug. I knew it was part of the problem but it's unfortunately essential for me. With this fixed perhaps they can now work on tab isolation, another…

Wow, that's actually very nice in terms of RAM usage. Right now in chrome, with only 6 tabs open I am using (according to about:memory)800MB of RAM[1]. I may very well switch back to Firefox if I can get performance like that. [1] http://puu.sh/JXL9

Is any of that shared memory? A bit offtopic, but do you typically keep your browser at that width? I imagine I'd be spending much of my day swinging my eyes and head from side to side.

Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#95

Post by cpeterso »

lelandbatey wrote: post #91
mixmastamyk wrote: post #89

I'm on Aurora right now (15a2), and after YEARS of bitching am cautiously optimistic this is really it! Just a few weeks ago I was closing FF once a twice a day as it approached almost a GB of RAM. Now it's holding steady at under 230mb! I have few extensions, but use firebug. I knew it was part of the problem but it's unfortunately essential for me. With this fixed perhaps they can now work on tab isolation, another…

Wow, that's actually very nice in terms of RAM usage. Right now in chrome, with only 6 tabs open I am using (according to about:memory)800MB of RAM[1]. I may very well switch back to Firefox if I can get performance like that. [1] http://puu.sh/JXL9

Is it normal for a gmail tab to use 250+ MB?

Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#96

Post by cpeterso »

kajecounterhack wrote: post #20
twodayslate wrote: post #9

I used to be an avid Firefox user. I switched to Chrome because it was faster and had all the same extensions I used on Firefox. Why should I switch back? Chrome is still faster no?

I did the ff-chrome-ff switcheroo a number of times. Now I generally use both: I find that chrome is a snappier startup and has a better flash runtime (since it does its own rather than relying on adobe). Firefox is more stable / uses less memory for a larger number of tabs. I do believe in the mozilla mission for an open web, and it's got fairly comparable performance overall, so I use it for my main browsing / fire…

Firefox support for WebRTC should be coming soon: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/04/webrtc-efforts-underway-at...

Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#97

Post by cpeterso »

rhizome wrote: post #81
twodayslate wrote: post #9

I used to be an avid Firefox user. I switched to Chrome because it was faster and had all the same extensions I used on Firefox. Why should I switch back? Chrome is still faster no?

AdBlock sucks on Chrome due to Google's architecture choices.

Architecture choices or business model?

Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#98

Post by rhizome »

cpeterso wrote: post #97
rhizome wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AdBlock sucks on Chrome due to Google's architecture choices.

Architecture choices or business model?

I'm not close enough to divine the details, but I'm talking about Chrome plugins not being able to block requests. This might appear to be a facility to protect advertising vectors, but I don't know for sure.

http://superuser.com/questions/257102/why-doesnt-chromes-adb...

Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#99

Post by lelandbatey »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #94
lelandbatey wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that's actually very nice in terms of RAM usage. Right now in chrome, with only 6 tabs open I am using (according to about:memory)800MB of RAM[1]. I may very well switch back to Firefox if I can get performance like that. [1] http://puu.sh/JXL9

Is any of that shared memory? A bit offtopic, but do you typically keep your browser at that width? I imagine I'd be spending much of my day swinging my eyes and head from side to side.

I really don't know.

Also, yes, I do often keep read at this width. Web pages usually do not span the entirety of it, so the eye movement is kept to a minimum. However, I spend most of my day in a view closer to [1]this one. You'll notice that the monitor is just large enough that 2 standard width web pages fit on it perfectly.

[1]http://puu.sh/JZDy

Re: Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks

#100

Post by lelandbatey »

cpeterso wrote: post #95
lelandbatey wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that's actually very nice in terms of RAM usage. Right now in chrome, with only 6 tabs open I am using (according to about:memory)800MB of RAM[1]. I may very well switch back to Firefox if I can get performance like that. [1] http://puu.sh/JXL9

Is it normal for a gmail tab to use 250+ MB?

I don't think it's supposed to, and that's what's making me thing it might be time to switch to Firefox.
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