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Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
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#572[satire] At some level the blog seems like it's written by Microsoft PR team that is too ashamed to pitch IE as an alternative.
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#573Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ctrl-w kills a tab. Makes that kind of thing completely painless.
Sometimes Ctrl+w can lead to horrible pain if you accidentally hit Q which is just next to w.
On Mac OS X at least, you can just remap Command-Q to something that's harder to press by mistake in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts
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#574This has got to be a joke. Firefox is not better than Chrome in the most important capability. Without the ability to precisely see what tabs are causing CPU and memory problems and to destroy those tabs, using more than a handful of tabs at one time makes it totally impossible to use Firefox. I get that the Firefox devs really, really don't want to expend the herculean effort required to make per-tab process managem…
It's not perhaps the prettiest, but 'about:memory' in Firefox can give you a good look into where memory issues are coming from.
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#575Went back to Firefox as well, same issues as author, plus my system security frequently flags Chrome extensions, I also feel better about supporting Firefox and open-source, I also enjoy Opera's speed-dial for surfing & bookmarks. Opera speed-dial is fast on my slow computer.
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#576One thing that's tremendously useful in Firefox is the "Group tabs" feature. You can have multiple Groups of tabs and (e.g. work tabs, research tabs, and news tabs). After a tab group has not been in focus for some time it gets unloaded from memory: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tab...
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#577I never understood the allure of Chrome.
Everybody said it was faster. So I did countless benchmarks with a stop watch for the pages that I frequent and for every single one of them Firefox rendered the pages faster.
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#578Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chrome is way ahead of Firefox in terms of security. It's worth the performance trade-offs. Each website is rendered in a separate process with a sandbox, each with an empty chroot + process namespace + network namespace + tiny seccomp-bpf + syscall whitelist. Chrome also has a stronger sandbox, pioneers better SSL, supports PIE on binaries, uses pepper - doesnt use native Flash plugins, the JIT compiler does randomi…
I'll just throw that in there but Firefox Linux - since you refer to that (99% of what you just mentioned doesnt exit on windows/osx) - so yeah, Firefox for Linux uses the Chromium sandbox. You know, the exact same code, with a different filter and options applied. Sure, its process model isnt as "secure" as chrome since it has the trade off or sharing more memory among other examples. But as a user, it seems like a…
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a7c177546ca0/secu... its not actually hard to read/find
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#579Interesting discussion, and surprising comments about browser workflow. I tend to not check my email while programming or writing. I also don't keep any fun reading or "research" tabs open. While working in about 1 hour sprints, I will have very few tabs open if I am even running a browser. If I visited a page briefly while reading hacker news during morning coffee, I can kill that tab and find the web page later using browser history or from memory during lunch break, etc.
If I need to do a Google or Bing web search, starting a browser or opening a new tab is no hassle, and a minute later the tab is gone.
Anyway it was interesting to read that people keep a browser running for days or longer with many tabs open. I am not being judgemental, and I hope that I don't sound so, I just have different working preferences.
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#580The 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.
My solution to this was to use both. I use Chrome only for Gmail and Docs (drive, whatever...) and disabled the auto-updater. I use Firefox with DDG for everything else. Couldn't be happier.
why did you disable the auto-updater? sounds like a bad idea to stop getting security updates and the like, right?