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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 AtmaScout »

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.

I agree with you about the developer tools. One of the main reasons I use Chrome over Firefox.

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

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Post by rockdoe »

pkmishra wrote: post #9

I have tried it many times but failed. The reason - if firfox memory goes too high, which happens frequently, there is no option to kill single tab(in the stable version) like Google Chrome. I have started using Firefox Nightly (because of separate process feature) but it keeps on crashing. So I am ready to jump on it as soon as we have new stable build with separate process for each tab.

1) What do you do to make "Firefox memory goes too high" 2) What does about:crashes say for the crashes you get? Are those known bugs?

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

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Post by weinzierl »

nvk wrote: post #7

The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID. Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.

I'm honestly curious about the scenario where not having a linked ID caused you data loss. I was an early adopter of Chrome but have not used it for a while. Is this linked ID just the Cookie or another mechanism? How could not having it cause data loss?

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

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Post by scrollaway »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #31
nvk wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's called Chromium.

Chromium doesn't opt you out of linking the browser to a google account. Opting out of linking the browser to a google account is called "not doing it", because it's an optional step anyway.

Also, chromium seems to be getting less and less care from google now. See this bug for example which prevents using screenshare in hangouts: https://crbug.com/416856

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

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Post by rockdoe »

at_ wrote: post #21

The reliability of Firefox's post-crash 'session restore' is what made me stick with it for good over Chrome. Life of a power tabber.

I'm not sure how you can use Chrome with a lot of tabs anyway. Maybe with a mouse with a DPI switch so you can hit the few pixes they size down to if you have 20+?

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

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Post by macNchz »

nvk wrote: post #7

The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID. Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account.

This was the driving reason I switched back to Firefox as my main browser about a year ago. It reached a tipping point when I discovered that there was no way to unlink a Google apps business account from Chrome without resetting the browser entirely.

Being that I'd never intended to 'sign into Chrome' in the first place (the form looks awfully similar to the gmail login), I essentially rage-quit Chrome and haven't looked back since. I've embraced Firefox and I feel better using free and open source software.

Performance has been excellent. The only thing I regularly notice is that many startups seem to only QA their products in Chrome.

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

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Post by Apocryphon »

It's almost as if browser bloat is a cyclical phenomenon, as formerly kings of the hill struggle against the upstarts that displaced them by streamlining and improving technologies. Firefox has made strides against Chrome, but IE is the current major underdog.

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

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Post by mason55 »

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.

> I keep a lot of tabs open and began to notice Chrome was filling up my memory.

I had this problem too and found that Chrome was getting so slow that it was unusable. For those who have this problem and don't want to switch from Chrome there is an extension called "The Great Suspender" which dumps background tabs after a configurable time period of inactivity. It helped immensely.

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