i won't be taking TomsHardware's word for it since I run Linux and they didn't even bother testing with it. but it does motivate me to perform my own checks.
memory usage and sluggishness were the reasons i ditched firefox for chromium last year.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @09:22AM (#38724008)
Yeah, most of the improvements were in the last 4-6 months.
Anyone else get tired of this... "blah blah, my favourite open source browser wasn't competitive with the commercial product by an ad agency that records every keystroke I type in the URL bar a long time ago, possibly due to some addons I was running, so I just completely gave up on it and whenever a story comes up on how it has improved, I just state how it sucked at some time in the past and I'll never try it again"?
You just mentioned that you use addons at work - it could very well be those addons are making Firefox crash or randomly lock up. If not, you could try creating a new Firefox browser profile.
Curious why you chose Chrome over Opera, though.
I'm seeing the same behavior from the latest version of Firefox. It's increasingly unstable, on both my home system as well as my laptop and desktop systems at the office. Each runs a different set of plugins (or no plugins, in the case of the laptop), so I know it's Firefox itself and not (just) the plugins. I get a crash every couple of hours on each system, often when the browser is just running in the background.
I'm considering switching to Chrome, or maybe even Safari since I trust Google even less
I dumped FF because they kept breaking all my plugins. I used it primarily for the plugins, yet they broke half of them ever release (versions 4-6). I keep waiting to hear that they created a stable API for plugins to use but have yet to hear about this. Do you know if they've addressed this.
And using Chrome doesn't necessarily mean using the 'official' binary version from Google with all its spy-settings turned on full. You can use Chromium w/ all that off and not worry about it.
Anyone tired of this "Blah blah anyone who says Chrome is faster than Firefox is lying, my stack of independent benchmarks show that Firefox doesn't use any RAM any more at all and Chrome is the memory hog and BTW Firefox are starting Memory Optimization Initiative #94 which undermines my claim that Firefox is suddenly memory efficient but I'm going to pounce on it anyway and pretend it validates everything I've flamed people over."
Let me put it this way. I just had to kill and restart Firefox (FF9) because it went into swap hell again. I'm using it on a 1.5G Ubuntu VM (which may not be huge, but it's 50% more memory than a Netbook, and last I heard we're still supporting those, right? Also: when did a glorified rich text viewer start needing gigabytes to run?)
How many tabs open? About 15. How much memory in use at the time? It claimed less than a gig.
What mistake did I make? Actually, I've noticed that if I have more than ten ta
i'll do my own tests (Score:2)
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Yeah, most of the improvements were in the last 4-6 months.
Anyone else get tired of this... "blah blah, my favourite open source browser wasn't competitive with the commercial product by an ad agency that records every keystroke I type in the URL bar a long time ago, possibly due to some addons I was running, so I just completely gave up on it and whenever a story comes up on how it has improved, I just state how it sucked at some time in the past and I'll never try it again"?
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Maybe you should learn to report bugs. Because hundreds of thousands of people are running the browser with no issues.
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I'm seeing the same behavior from the latest version of Firefox. It's increasingly unstable, on both my home system as well as my laptop and desktop systems at the office. Each runs a different set of plugins (or no plugins, in the case of the laptop), so I know it's Firefox itself and not (just) the plugins. I get a crash every couple of hours on each system, often when the browser is just running in the background.
I'm considering switching to Chrome, or maybe even Safari since I trust Google even less
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I wish I could mod this up +1000
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I dumped FF because they kept breaking all my plugins. I used it primarily for the plugins, yet they broke half of them ever release (versions 4-6). I keep waiting to hear that they created a stable API for plugins to use but have yet to hear about this. Do you know if they've addressed this.
And using Chrome doesn't necessarily mean using the 'official' binary version from Google with all its spy-settings turned on full. You can use Chromium w/ all that off and not worry about it.
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Anyone tired of this "Blah blah anyone who says Chrome is faster than Firefox is lying, my stack of independent benchmarks show that Firefox doesn't use any RAM any more at all and Chrome is the memory hog and BTW Firefox are starting Memory Optimization Initiative #94 which undermines my claim that Firefox is suddenly memory efficient but I'm going to pounce on it anyway and pretend it validates everything I've flamed people over."
This article exists because:
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Let me put it this way. I just had to kill and restart Firefox (FF9) because it went into swap hell again. I'm using it on a 1.5G Ubuntu VM (which may not be huge, but it's 50% more memory than a Netbook, and last I heard we're still supporting those, right? Also: when did a glorified rich text viewer start needing gigabytes to run?)
How many tabs open? About 15. How much memory in use at the time? It claimed less than a gig.
What mistake did I make? Actually, I've noticed that if I have more than ten ta