Quitting Chrome: Because Google+

Post by whichdan » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 2:38 PM UTC

midnitewarrior wrote: post #33

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.

Chrome (browser) is becoming its own operating system. On windows there is about 10 processes running in the background when I have Chrome open that take up massive amounts of memory and are using the CPU. Safari is simply a browser, probably using far fewer resources.

Each tab and plugin has its own process, plus another process for the browser itself. Take a look at Chrome's Task Manager for some more insight.

Post by zobzu » Fri, Jun 13, 2014, 6:56 AM UTC

adrusi wrote: post #17

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 Firefo…

So due to this I tried Firefox on OSX and its not all that good indeed. I use Firefox on Windows and Linux where I have zero perf issue.

Meh. Good thing I don't use OSX. ;)

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