Dear Firefox, I feel sad about you. • Hacker News Board

Re: Dear Firefox, I feel sad about you.

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Post by deepak-kumar » Fri, Nov 22, 2013, 9:58 AM UTC

m_gloeckl wrote: post #8

I've had a short fling with Chrome, when it was still fairly new and Firefox suffered from severe performance issues (during the 3.6.x era). Today's picture is a little different. Sure, on JS heavy web applications and those optimized for Chrome (a few google maps based apps come to mind) Firefox gets outperformed by Chrome significantly. Considering browser extensions: I still feel that Chrome extensions lack in fun…

I must agree to the fact that you can not blame addon authors for any slowdown or memory usage.

Re: Dear Firefox, I feel sad about you.

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Post by deepak-kumar » Fri, Nov 22, 2013, 10:02 AM UTC

daliusd wrote: post #10

deepak-kumar wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FF 25.x.x and FF Nightly build 28.0a1 (2013-11-19). I do see some improvements in latest dev builds.

I don't have problems even with 25 version but again that might be very individual: different sites, different projects and etc. There is one little thing you can do: enable all reporting in Advanced settings if you have not done that yet. Mozilla will get at least some information that might be later used for browser improvements.

Thanks for reminding me the option and yeah with js heavy application/projects FF is not doing well for me atleast.

Re: Dear Firefox, I feel sad about you.

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Post by punkbit » Fri, Nov 22, 2013, 12:12 PM UTC

deepak-kumar wrote: post #3

daliusd wrote: post #2

That's quite a rant :) 1. My experience: I have not experienced Firefox being significantly slower than Chrome. I personally do not notice anything. Firefox on Android works amazingly (better than Chrome significantly). I have not seen Firefox crash yet. 2. Your experience: It is just a rant. You are not contributing anything good to this world and the only good thing about your rant is understanding that people migh…

My intention was not to sound like rant but if I did then it's my bad. I notice the issues with ubuntu a lot and I was big fan of it as mentioned above but not anymore as you know the reason. I get paid for developing application which work on browsers and not make browsers work fast. The point is big number of devs won't be able to give their time to make browsers better but that does not mean they can't say bad is…

I'm sorry, but Chrome doesn't work better then Firefox on Ubuntu. Actually, you need to install Chromium instead! You pointed Chrome + Ubuntu, which is not very stable compared with Chromium.

For web development, I think the Dev tools on FF are getting better, so I'm still using Firebug. I often use both Firefox + Chrome and I don't think one is better then another. I do trust Firefox, comparing with Chrome, the latest looks like a bot, maybe google new web spider ? Well, looks like (Urls magically appearing in their list, etc), not sure.

Firefox and Chrome teams are extremely important, they're bringing new stuff all the time, researching, etc! I wouldn't say their work is bad!

If you can't do better, STFU!