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Even if it was a bit slower than the competition (not convinced that it is) , I would rather be safe.
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Plus Firefox crashing is a huge downside. How do you get Firefox to crash? What does about:crashes say? Did you report the bug?
Is there a better way to report the bug than just use the built-in crash reporter? I still get super sporadic crashes, I think it has to do with having too many tabs loaded.
If that's the case try using 64 bit builds.
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uBlock is now available on Firefox too, and makes an even more dramatic difference in performance. I really don't know what you're talking about - Chrome is a dog after ~10 tabs are opened, uses crazy memory and becomes unusable fast once it starts paging. Firefox remains stable, backgrounds tabs you're not using in a graceful way, and doesn't try to open and render every single tab at once on a session restore. It's…
I regularly have dozens of tabs open in Chrome on both Windows and Linux and I haven't experienced the unusably fast (slow?) behaviour you're talking about. That said, Chrome seems much more unstable than Firefox for me lately.
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I switched from Firefox to Chrome right around Firefox 3.6. I have an average of around 20 tabs open at any given moment, and I tend to go around a week or two between reboots. Other than the occasional tab crashing and quickly reloading (and by "occasional", I mean maybe once every couple of months or so), I've never had an issue with Chrome. It just works.
I also have better luck with tabs in Chrome. Overall CPU usage is lower, and the in-browser task inspector makes it trivial to ID bad tabs and close them. Firefox is a lot better than it used to be, but it can still be brought to its knees across the board by a bad script, at least in my experience, and it's hard to find the one bad tab to kill.
I've been using Safari since Yosemite, before I was using firefox since 2010 or so (back from Chrome). I love what Firefox means, but I don't love that they receive a shitload amount of money from Google and that constraints them a lot from their true mission. Just go to about:config and search 'google', there are several settings that use google by default to send information. I understand that they need the money,…
See https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an... for the details.
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> I regularly have several hundred tabs open in Firefox with no problems. Some people may think this is crazy or messy but I find it very useful for organizing the various projects I'm working on for different clients and my own personal projects. It still is crazy and messy. For organizing the various projects there are bookmarks and bookmark folders. Having tons of tabs open != organization.
Why is "a list of bookmarks grouped by folders" organized, but "a list of tabs grouped by windows"(potentially with the support of tree style tabs or something similar) crazy and messy?
+ user is able to see a tree-view / list of them all at one.
+ searchable.
+ loadable on demand on the same "tabs", even whole folders (projects) at once.
+ persistent (even across computers with bookmark sync).
+ doesn't waste memory (not even mininal).
+ Was even designed for actual organization (Manage Bookmarks...), instead of a viewing content feature that was abused for that purpose.
Firefox also has (experimental) built-in tracking protection without needing to install a third-party extension. The tracking list is based on Disconnect's list. You can activate Firefox's tracking protection by switching the "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled" about:config pref to true.
for others that are interested, see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir...