I use FF as my daily driver. I am forcing myself to do it because I value privacy. Unfortunately FF doesn't make it easy. Chrome may be a memory hog but FF gets OOM killed multiple times a day and every night. I'm not a light user but I'm also not a tab junky. The big consumers are the 3-5 gmail tabs and the 3+ slack tabs. Other than that, it's normal browsing. Chrome ate all my memory but FF just dies.
Give Firefox a chance
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Re: Give Firefox a chance
#12Vertical. Tabs. For my usecase, nuff said. Chrome developers WONTFIXed requests for this a long time ago, so keep using Firefox I will (that and doing my part to preserve web engine diversity). Additionally, I've begun trying out Brave/Vivaldi/Opera to see if I can uninstall Chrome from my system entirely; They all run Blink, so I assume I can open the occasional compatibility-issue pages on those.
What plugin allows this feature in Firefox now?
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#13Vertical. Tabs. For my usecase, nuff said. Chrome developers WONTFIXed requests for this a long time ago, so keep using Firefox I will (that and doing my part to preserve web engine diversity). Additionally, I've begun trying out Brave/Vivaldi/Opera to see if I can uninstall Chrome from my system entirely; They all run Blink, so I assume I can open the occasional compatibility-issue pages on those.
What plugin allows this feature in Firefox now?
Tab Center Redux
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-center-redux/
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#14Not a lot of details compared to what many others have said before. The developer tools enhancements in Firefox are interesting. > Safari is on the second place just because of macOS popularity. Shouldn’t this be “iOS” instead of “masOS”?
yes. macOS, iOS, tabOS (or is it padOS now?) , etc everything.
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#15I've given Firefox multiple chances, but we've had no progress with the MacOS performance issues for years. Also, no pinch-to-zoom? 2007 called, and it wants its browser back.
I used it for 6 months and gave up few weeks ago for this reason.
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#16Vertical. Tabs. For my usecase, nuff said. Chrome developers WONTFIXed requests for this a long time ago, so keep using Firefox I will (that and doing my part to preserve web engine diversity). Additionally, I've begun trying out Brave/Vivaldi/Opera to see if I can uninstall Chrome from my system entirely; They all run Blink, so I assume I can open the occasional compatibility-issue pages on those.
What plugin allows this feature in Firefox now?
Tree Style Tabs is a popular one. Though none can take away the Tabs in title bar without manually installed CSS hacks.
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#17I left Chrome for personal usage a long time ago, however I am forced to use it at work. I use Safari all around for my personal usage, I find Safari with content blockers and DuckDuckGo as search engine to be a very good alternative.
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#18I switched to Brave, it was a painless migration
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#19I keep giving it a chance, and will continue to do so, for the reasons stated in this article, along with the goodness that is multi-account containers. I wish it wouldn't keep driving me away with its reliability problems.
Re: Give Firefox a chance
#20I use FF as my daily driver. I am forcing myself to do it because I value privacy. Unfortunately FF doesn't make it easy. Chrome may be a memory hog but FF gets OOM killed multiple times a day and every night. I'm not a light user but I'm also not a tab junky. The big consumers are the 3-5 gmail tabs and the 3+ slack tabs. Other than that, it's normal browsing. Chrome ate all my memory but FF just dies.
Oh man, I've having the opposite problem. I recently switched and no crashes yet (Chrome would freeze and die fairly frequently), but good god is FF a memory hog. I've got 5 tabs open, only text (some short programming docs and HN), and it's eating 3.5GB.
Chrome would reach about 150 MB a tab, in my experience.
I have plenty of memory to spare, but still.