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Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by rockdoe »

colin_jack wrote: post #10
lisa_henderson wrote: post #2

This has been exactly my experience. I was an early convert to Chrome, and I loved how fast it was, but now I find it slow and buggy. There are some partial workarounds: Chrome does a cache lookup on your history when you type, so if you delete your history, then you get a speed bump. But I'm annoyed that I have to erase my history. If I never erase my history, Chrome gets very slow after a few months of history pili…

Its been my recent experience too, I keep a lot of tabs open and began to notice Chrome was filling up my memory. Very strange that Google let the situation get so bad. Mind you I find the Chrome developer tools far more powerful and intuitive than those in Firefox which stops me moving entirely.

The Firefox Devtools team regularly probes the webdev community on the features they need - make sure you let them know (and don't be surprised if they're in Aurora already).

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by justcommenting »

chiph wrote: post #22

Something I noticed the other week - Chrome on Windows will scan my desktop on startup (all the icons go back their generic version, and then return). Why would they do that? My desktop isn't where the cache is.

My experience with relatives' computers has been that trying to completely remove Chrome from Windows is a lot like trying to remove a rootkit, specifically one that phones home a lot.

If any other company did those sorts of things in persisting pieces of their software all over the OS without easy removal for non-technical users, people would be calling it malware or spyware.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by navait »

I love firefox, mostly because of the pentadactyl extension(not compatible with firefox 35, sadly) but it has a huge number of problems. Namely, it crashes far too often. It's extremely frustrating, and no number of bug reports I fill out or new releases ever seems to address the problem. I'm thinking of trying to find a better productivity extension, or go back to emacs type shortcuts with chrome or safari.

Of course, maybe the grass is always greener on the other side. I left chrome a few years ago because I had an linux install where any non-trivial js would cause the computer to lock up.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by [deleted] »

nvk wrote: post #25
Mikeb85 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, that's part of why I use Chrome. Having all my Google accounts and apps available is a huge feature to me. Plus Firefox crashing is a huge downside. As for privacy implications, there's no reason to believe Google does anything inappropriate, and I rather like having my internet experience tailored based on past behaviour. To each their own I guess.

Sure, some people may like that. All I ask is a reasonable way of opting out.

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Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by rockdoe »

gear54rus wrote: post #4
lisa_henderson wrote: post #2

This has been exactly my experience. I was an early convert to Chrome, and I loved how fast it was, but now I find it slow and buggy. There are some partial workarounds: Chrome does a cache lookup on your history when you type, so if you delete your history, then you get a speed bump. But I'm annoyed that I have to erase my history. If I never erase my history, Chrome gets very slow after a few months of history pili…

I never switched to chrome since it seemed sub-par all that time (reduced set of controls, dumbed down all the way) but flash-related crashes are Adobe's problem actually (I also have them on FF sometimes). When will this proprietary crap die off already?

There's an article about Shumway on the front page :)

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by joshstrange »

I find Chrome's web dev tools to be vastly superior to FF and last time I tried it it didn't look good on my Mac and I had the same memory problems as with Chrome.

Until FF get's much faster or better devtools than chrome I'm not interested. Not to mention how often does a Chrome extension hit the front page of HN vs a FF one?

Don't get me wrong, I don't love Chrome unconditionally (the RAM usage is crazy but so is FF) but I still think it's the better of the two. Just my two cents...

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by rockdoe »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #17
pkmishra wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

exactly!! I don't want Google everywhere.That's why I changed the default search engine to duckduckgo. Let's see how it goes.

Funny, that's part of why I use Chrome. Having all my Google accounts and apps available is a huge feature to me. Plus Firefox crashing is a huge downside. As for privacy implications, there's no reason to believe Google does anything inappropriate, and I rather like having my internet experience tailored based on past behaviour. To each their own I guess.

Plus Firefox crashing is a huge downside.

How do you get Firefox to crash? What does about:crashes say? Did you report the bug?

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by ambrop7 »

nvk wrote: post #20
doe88 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They want to make their little OS inside your current OS, so that's it, they introduce accounts, users, apps, notifications... Meanwhile most people (including me) just want to browse the damn open internet.

They are free to that, just please give me a reasonable way of opting out.

Just don't sign in? I don't feel being pushed into anything. If you're annoyed by that new button near the window management buttons, there's a chrome:flags thing to disable it (enable the new avatar).

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by nickysielicki »

navait wrote: post #43

I love firefox, mostly because of the pentadactyl extension(not compatible with firefox 35, sadly) but it has a huge number of problems. Namely, it crashes far too often. It's extremely frustrating, and no number of bug reports I fill out or new releases ever seems to address the problem. I'm thinking of trying to find a better productivity extension, or go back to emacs type shortcuts with chrome or safari. Of cours…

cvim for chrome is really fantastic. I was like you, up until a month ago. I don't miss FF at all.

I'm waiting for someone to encorporate vim bindings, umatrix, and webkit into a package... I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't use it.

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