2013-08-04, 17:08 | Link #342 |
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I've used Firefox on Linux for over a decade now. I don't care about being cross-platform as I only use Windows under duress. Even then, I've never been unhappy with Firefox on Windows either. That posting above seems a bit whiny to me. The entire judgement about Firefox's performance consists of a posting from one "Google+ homie" about his or her problems.
I do occasionally see complaints from people who want to have twenty or more simultaneous open tabs. This seems like a "corner" problem that affects very few ordinary users who probably use at most only half-a-dozen tabs. Many people I encounter don't even know tabs exist.
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2013-08-05, 13:01 | Link #343 | |
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2013-08-16, 11:13 | Link #344 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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I've been Firefoxing for years with lots of extensions ... but the behavior is feeling listless and bloated lately (even with uninstalling, burning all evidence, and re-installing) ... for my "amusement" I'm seeing how closely I can match functionality with Chrome and extensions.
Also, I'm losing my iGoogle portal page in November (carefully tailored for newsfeeds, stocks, weather, etc and trying different ways to duplicate the convenience of one homepage dashboard. I've had several recommendations but haven't really spent a lot of energy on them yet.
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2013-08-17, 14:29 | Link #345 |
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I wouldn't use Chrome while playing games simultaneously. Instead, for the netbook I'm using (Atom processor, 2gb of memory, shared Intel graphics) while on the go I have to take Opera, as I heard that it has a very low memory footprint compared to Firefox and Chrome.
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2013-08-25, 17:43 | Link #348 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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One reason apparently to stick with Firefox partially. Chrome plugins are not allowed to capture Youtube streams (Google Playstore policy). My Firefox "video downloadhelper" is wondrous for that capability - which lets me manage my monthly transfer totals, thanks).
As it might be said, "fuck that".
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2013-09-02, 20:14 | Link #349 |
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I should've mentioned about Youtube Options (YTO, https://spoi.com/software/yto/) installed in Chrome (on my main rig), which allows me to download any size/type video from YT. Of course if that fails, Firefox and a trio of plugins also do the work.
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2013-09-02, 22:23 | Link #350 | |
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2013-09-07, 05:28 | Link #352 |
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Yeah, they removed a cr**load of features since they ditched Presto and turned to Chromium/Blink, most likely because they needed to rebuild all these parts from the ground up in order to make them compatible with the new engine. So either Opera ASA turned the removed stuff into standalone programs (Opera Mail, for one), they revamped it (Turbo --> Off-Road) or they completely dumped it. They're slowly but surely putting some features back in, but only after tailoring it for Blink/Chromium, if possible...and if it is present on their development roadmap.
End result? Opera is now a bloated, over-minimalistic browser with little of its erstwhile potential for extensive UI/settings customization. EDIT: Opera Turbo is now called "Off-Road mode".
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2013-09-08, 09:49 | Link #353 |
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I still remember the day when I saw Opera 15. Customization was the reason I went with Opera to begin with and stuck with it for so long, even through the abyssmal 12.x releases. The built-in mail client was just gravy. I was even originally for the switch to WebKit because I thought it would let Opera shift the Presto deveopers over to other teams so they could tweak the UI and customization capabilities, and maybe even do something about the horrible memory bloat that kept bogging the 12.x series down. The last thing I wanted was another Chrome clone.
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2017-11-15, 02:33 | Link #354 |
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Firefox thinks Quantum can beat Chrome with ethics… and speed:
"Now Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, is hoping that the latest version of its browser can begin the fight back against Chrome. “This is by far the biggest reboot we’ve ever done,” says Mark Mayo, senior vice president of Firefox at Mozilla. The latest version, the firm claims, Firefox Quantum, is twice as fast as Firefox was six months ago and uses 30 per cent less memory than Chrome. That should mean fewer crashes and less time spent gazing at the spinning wheel of death." See: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mozi...-google-chrome So, how does Firefox Quantum compare to the other browsers? |
2017-11-30, 05:56 | Link #356 |
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FQ is indeed faster, but it seems to have trouble closing tabs, because 35-50% of the time, whenever I open the browser, I get a message telling me either a window or a tab was not properly closed, and proposing me to restore the "lost" session.
I don't have any extensions or add-ons installed and this bug occurs with just about any possible website, from Yahoo! to Youtube. Bah. Anyway, I mostly use Edge, Chrome and Vivaldi, so FQ will easily be relegated to the status of "last resort", to be used only when I hit the odd website that is optimized for Firefox alone and cannot be properly rendered by the aforementioned other browsers. No big loss here.
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