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Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by tachion »

wingerlang wrote: post #8

I've gone back to FF after using Chrome literally form the day it landed. I changed because of vimperator + the ability to theme the header slimmer (i'm on laptop 24/7). But frankly it kind of sucks a bit and I have to jump over to Chrome a lot because almost no videos will play in FF.

Can you elaborate a bit about how you've slimmed Firefox header? I am also working 24/7 on a laptop and I value my screen estate a lot so one of main reasons I dont use Firefox is that its header and tabs consume the largest amount of screen space from Chrome/Safari/Firefox trio...

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by cjfont »

rwmj wrote: post #13

I do use Firefox, through inertia, but honestly it's not a good browser. It consumes 50%+ CPU constantly. It uses huge amounts of RAM. It crashes from time to time. Every few months I end up losing all my open tabs permanently. There's no isolation (process per tab). And they keep making gratuitous changes to the UI that don't improve the real UI problems but do require searching through about:config to revert them.…

And I wouldn't have as much a problem with a browser eating into my CPU/RAM is if it actually performed, but alas...

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by blissofbeing »

wingerlang wrote: post #8

I've gone back to FF after using Chrome literally form the day it landed. I changed because of vimperator + the ability to theme the header slimmer (i'm on laptop 24/7). But frankly it kind of sucks a bit and I have to jump over to Chrome a lot because almost no videos will play in FF.

Which theme are you using in FF to make the header more compact?

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by VMG »

ekianjo wrote: post #16

This guy writes against Google world domination using Blogger. A good example of how to shoot down your credibility. But hey, he is a hacker. Looks like its out of a hackers reach to host your blog. But choose Mozilla. By the way isnt Mozilla like 90 percent financed by Google?

Even funnier, over 80% of Mozillas income is from Google:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by sidcool »

It so much sounds like an apocalyptic cry. It has substance but the degree to which it is shown to harm is us not to be taken seriously, I believe. To be honest, Chrome is a good browser, both on desktop and mobile(at least Android). And Google does not have a hegemony on the entire Web.

EDIT - This thread is an example of 'That escalated quickly!'

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by filippovitale »

ekianjo wrote: post #16

This guy writes against Google world domination using Blogger. A good example of how to shoot down your credibility. But hey, he is a hacker. Looks like its out of a hackers reach to host your blog. But choose Mozilla. By the way isnt Mozilla like 90 percent financed by Google?

That is funny indeed... BTW Google fund Mozilla with 300M$ every year!

...and they are competing on: ChromeFirefox AndroidFirefox OS

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/22/so-why-is...

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by collyw »

recalibrator wrote: post #25

Developers, please stop making add-ons and extensions for Google products. You accelerate Google's domination and vendor lock-in when you do.

I could say the exact same things about iOS apps. Or Android. Or Windows. But a bit of competition is generally good.

Re: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice

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Post by zobzu »

codeflo wrote: post #17

As someone who switches browsers about every six months, I feel that Firefox is still quite a bit behind in terms of stability and performance. I mostly blame the single-process model, which makes crashes and hangups way more global than they should be in 2014. On Windows, there's also the 32-bit issue. On machines with 8+ GB of RAM, having all tabs share a 2 GB address space just doesn't cut it. Especially when your…

Personally, I use firefox nightly and i get a couple of crashes a year...

I also use chrome extensively... and i get crashes about once... a month (im not talking about tab crashes but entiere browser crash)

So im not convinced by the whole multi process thing for stability reasons. It seems like a good idea for sandboxing or "webapps" and only so IF you also have separate cookie jars, etc.

(and i trust chrome more for security)

I'd rather have 2 processes, one for the GUI, one for the tabs ;)

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