In theory it might be so but when I open a large number of tabs in Chrome it becomes sluggish. Not so in Firefox.
Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome
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#42Here's why I don't care: I like Firefox better.
Hear, hear.
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#43...and if open source software is the future, the Firefox is lightyears ahead...
I use Firefox - on Windows. I am not a Gnuist. I use Firefox because there are some areas where my interests and those of Microsoft and Google are not sufficiently aligned to justify using their software in lieu of convienent alternatives. The desktop browser is currently one of them.
As an aside, I don't really want my browser sucking up as much CPU bandwidth as it can.
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#44I began using Firefox a long time ago (when it was called Phoenix) but switched to Chrome. A couple months ago I switched back to Firefox because Chrome lost my open tab session in some cases (hard crashes when loading the old session), due to privacy issues and because it often triggered long swaps (locking the process) when dealing with lots of tabs (I usually have like 50-60 tabs open in several windows). Also bec…
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#45"If Mozilla can’t turn Firefox into a modern browser because of all the legacy code getting in the way, perhaps we need a Phoenix 2.0." That sounds like Servo [1] to me. That would also be a much more forward-thinking approach to Electrolysis than fully separating the old Mozilla codebase. Firefox is also competing very well with Chrome in JavaScript speed. [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo [2] http://arewef…
Direct link to the Servo wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(layout_engine)
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have more than a 100 tabs open at once, it DOES add up.
So you're for or against Firefox using a multi-processor architecture? For me, FF becomes unbearably slow when I have about 15-20 tabs open.
For me, everything except FF is unbearably slow and memory-hog-y with more that that many tabs.
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#47Mozilla are leading the way in other areas. Firefox OS is entirely based on HTML5 - even the UI. Mozilla invented asm.js, an open, backwards-compatible and fascinating alternative to Google's proprietary Chrome-only Native Client technology. They've done a lot with emscripten to compile large native engines to the web, complete with WebGL and Web Audio support. Chrome looks to follow Mozilla's lead by adding asm.js support to V8.
I agree Firefox are overall more behind, but they are still an innovative company coming up with some fantastic tech. The main reason they're behind is probably because their codebase is pretty old, back from the days when they were busy saving us from IE6.
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#48I began using Firefox a long time ago (when it was called Phoenix) but switched to Chrome. A couple months ago I switched back to Firefox because Chrome lost my open tab session in some cases (hard crashes when loading the old session), due to privacy issues and because it often triggered long swaps (locking the process) when dealing with lots of tabs (I usually have like 50-60 tabs open in several windows). Also bec…
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Wow, thanks. I kept looking for this in Firefox's home.
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#49Chrome really needs to add tagging of bookmarks. I know there are many people who say it does not need it, but they are wrong, it does.
I know that it does because every time I have to dig, search and poke around looking for a link in Chrome that has something to do with 'x' and 'y', but 'x' and 'y' are not in the url or title of the page, I can't find it. If I had the ability to tag the url with 'x' and 'y' all I would have to do is is type "x y" (like you can in Firefox) and the link would be there.
Do any of you know why does Chrome not have this feature already?
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#50I began using Firefox a long time ago (when it was called Phoenix) but switched to Chrome. A couple months ago I switched back to Firefox because Chrome lost my open tab session in some cases (hard crashes when loading the old session), due to privacy issues and because it often triggered long swaps (locking the process) when dealing with lots of tabs (I usually have like 50-60 tabs open in several windows). Also bec…
It's the really small things that annoy me about Firefox. For example, in gmail, when writing an email, I can't hit cmd+right arrow to go to the end of a line. And because links are set to open in a new window, I can't cmd+click them to open them in the background.
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