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Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by FreeFull »

therealmarv wrote: post #650
serge2k wrote: post #543

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Actually re-writing things might make it faster.

yes we have enough proof of that concept... I do not believe you. It's a urban myth that rewriting always make things faster. Especially when looking at a C(++) code basis. Rust will maybe make the code safer but I doubt it will make it faster.

Improving the design is part of a rewrite, which would make it faster, even if the rewrite was in C++. Sufficiently large, old projects (and Firefox certainly qualifies) tend to accumulate a lot of gunk and design choices that used to make sense, but don't any more.

Rust also allows one to safely use patterns that one couldn't use in C++ without screwing things up, thanks to the borrow checker. And quite a lot of Firefox is written in Javascript, which definitely would be faster when rewritten in a compiled language.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by Zancarius »

_lce0 wrote: post #626
Zancarius wrote: post #463

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> why don't? unused tabs won't consume much, or at least noticeable to me. Because I COMPLETELY misread your original comment. :( I thought it read that you were using Chrome, not Firefox. I'm truly very sorry about that, eridal. My experiences are just like yours, though. Firefox works great for me (relatively low memory usage, up to and including 200+ tabs). Chrome, on the other hand, not so much. Hopefully you can…

hey, that's ok!! you don't really need to apologize, at all

Eh, I do if I did something stupid. :)

And you gotta admit, that was pretty stupid.

Cheers!

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by Morphling »

scholia wrote: post #521
Morphling wrote: post #223

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I hear quite a few people talking how they have 30-50 tabs open, how do people manage something like that? And why would anyone need so many simultaneous tabs open?

The problem is that you're doing something that uses lots of tabs, and with luck you remember to close them down. Still, at the end of the day, you may have an extra five tabs open, and that's 100 a month. After a few months you have 500 tabs. So then you devote a couple of hours to going through and closing tabs, and find you still have 300... The solution, if anyone ever gets this far down the page, is to use Sessi…

See that "you don't remember to close them down" part gets me, or rather doesn't. I mean I have a lot of tabs open when I'm working, but at the end of the day I close my browser and I don't have any fixed set of pages that it opens or last session, it just opens on the new tab page and asks for commands.

I just can't stand if my browser has so many tabs open I can't read the what the hell it is from the header and since I always use browser only on half of my screen with editor on the other side (actually since I have 21:9 screen I've split it in 3 so I can have project | editor | docs) that gives me at most like 15+-5 tabs to work with.

But maybe I'm just the weirdo out of everyone.

Re: Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

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Post by Morphling »

sukilot wrote: post #349
Morphling wrote: post #223

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I hear quite a few people talking how they have 30-50 tabs open, how do people manage something like that? And why would anyone need so many simultaneous tabs open?

If your work involves living in web apps (github, trello, gDocs, etc) he tabs pile up quickly. If you live in Photoshop or MS suite, not so much.

I do work with web projects, but I hardly live in github, sure it's an important tool and I tend to visit the site quite often especially if I'm working, but I see no need to keep it open all the time, but maybe I'm not solving hard enough problems for that to matter.
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