Quitting Chrome: Because Google+ • Hacker News Board

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by jonnyscholes » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:16 AM UTC

zobzu wrote: post #2

I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. I wonder if thats related to OSX. Regardless, I agree with the move 100%. Thanksfully, while Firefox may not be the best, its very good/useable for everything. If ever it isnt good enough anymore and there is no other replacement - this is when we'll really be cornered

I uninstalled AdBlock after reading this[0] and found it really did make a difference. Esp on sites that loaded a dozen odd ads in different locations [news sites I'm looking at you].

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by jolurox » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:21 AM UTC

I am using Safari because it's faster for multi tabbed browsing and I can use WebKit's "FTL" JavaScript JIT compiler.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by jmillikin » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:22 AM UTC

adamconroy wrote: post #3

I've done the same. I use gmail a lot, I have an Android phone and I was using desktop Chrome for years. However I started to notice things that worried me, for example I would be using Chrome on my PC but definitely not logged into Gmail / Google+, then I would see that my recent google searches from the desktop Chrome would appear in my recent searches list on Android within seconds. I could somewhat accept that if…

Chrome logins are separate from Google web logins; go into your Chrome settings and sign out.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by shakeel_mohamed » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:22 AM UTC

zobzu wrote: post #2

I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. I wonder if thats related to OSX. Regardless, I agree with the move 100%. Thanksfully, while Firefox may not be the best, its very good/useable for everything. If ever it isnt good enough anymore and there is no other replacement - this is when we'll really be cornered

I've had performance issues with Firefox all the way back to Firefox 3 on Windows. The perf issues don't depend on the OS, in my experience.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by lelandbatey » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:23 AM UTC

xpose2000 wrote: post #9

This sounds backwards to me. If anything, you should be quitting Google, the search engine, rather than their browser. Google can live without you being a Chrome user, but it hurts them if you switch to Bing or duckduckgo.

Yes, but switching to Firefox also hurts me a lot less than switching to Duck Duck Go.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by pilif » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:25 AM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #7

I switched browsers for a different reason: I installed OS X Yosemite beta and it seems like the Safari browser uses far less COU resources, noticeable by longer battery life.

It also helps, of course, that Safari (or Firefox for that matter) doesn't crash whenever you mouse over a scrollbar (or cause a scrollbar to be displayed by scrolling the page if your mac is configured that way).

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by adrusi » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:25 AM UTC

zobzu wrote: post #2

I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. I wonder if thats related to OSX. Regardless, I agree with the move 100%. Thanksfully, while Firefox may not be the best, its very good/useable for everything. If ever it isnt good enough anymore and there is no other replacement - this is when we'll really be cornered

I agree that it might be OS X related. I switched from Chrome to Firefox about a year ago, while I was still using Mac. I did notice a minor performance drop, though not enough to be too upset about. Since December I've been using Linux full time and haven't noticed any lack of performance from Firefox. I tried Chromium about a month ago to see how it would hold up, and didn't notice any performance boost over Firefox.

Granted, I am also using different machine with similar but newer processor and (integrated) graphics hardware, I am using a several-versions newer Firefox than I was last year (I was running v27 nightlies at the time and now I run v29 stable). Still I think that some performance drop in Firefox on OS X might be attributable to a lower-performing graphical backend.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by subsection1h » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:25 AM UTC

zobzu wrote: post #2

I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. I wonder if thats related to OSX. Regardless, I agree with the move 100%. Thanksfully, while Firefox may not be the best, its very good/useable for everything. If ever it isnt good enough anymore and there is no other replacement - this is when we'll really be cornered

> I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower.

In my experience, people who think Chrome is faster than Firefox never have hundreds of tabs open.

I like Chrome and I use it for development, but I use Firefox for general web browsing because it handles hundreds of tabs much, much better. Not only is Firefox's performance better, but Firefox extensions such Tree Style Tab and Session Manager are vastly superior to the tab management extensions that are available for Chrome. For example, I'm still waiting for a Chrome extension that supports the basic task of appending the current window to a previously saved session.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by lallysingh » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:26 AM UTC

zobzu wrote: post #2

I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. I wonder if thats related to OSX. Regardless, I agree with the move 100%. Thanksfully, while Firefox may not be the best, its very good/useable for everything. If ever it isnt good enough anymore and there is no other replacement - this is when we'll really be cornered

Nope, on Linux here and it's slower. Maybe it's how people use it? I leave long-running tabs with gmail open. I think firefox goes into a GC performance-suck cycle.

Re: Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

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Post by mschuster91 » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:27 AM UTC

subsection1h wrote: post #18

zobzu wrote: post #2

I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. I wonder if thats related to OSX. Regardless, I agree with the move 100%. Thanksfully, while Firefox may not be the best, its very good/useable for everything. If ever it isnt good enough anymore and there is no other replacement - this is when we'll really be cornered

> I dont understand when people find firefox noticeably slower. In my experience, people who think Chrome is faster than Firefox never have hundreds of tabs open. I like Chrome and I use it for development, but I use Firefox for general web browsing because it handles hundreds of tabs much, much better. Not only is Firefox's performance better, but Firefox extensions such Tree Style Tab and Session Manager are vastly…

Funny enough, on Win x64 I experience it exactly the other way round. I guess this may be related to the fact that I don't have much RAM and Windows might be more efficient in swapping out unneeded tabs as each tab is its own process in Chrome, while Firefox mixes everything together in RAM.