Published on April 29, 2013 By kona0197 In Personal Computing

I'll admit I have been a long time Firefox user. However I have noticed lately that Firefox has become more and more bloated and still has a memory leak. There are even sites I visit that Firefox will not work correctly. Wincustomize is one, Facebook is another. On Firefox, Wincustomize takes forever to load. On Chrome, a matter of seconds. On Firefox, I have issues when scrolling down my news feed on Facebook. Firefox just freezes up. I thought newer hardware would fix that, but nope. Even with extensions disabled Firefox has issues with Facebook. I have no issues at all with Facebook on Chrome.

So my question is this: Is Chrome better, faster than Firefox these days?


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on May 02, 2013

If you've been a fan of Firefox (for the most part) and find that it's not as speedy as it used to be, I'd recommend you take a look at Pale Moon.  Pale Moon is basically the Mozilla Firefox code stripped of all the stuff that 90% of junk that most people will never use.  I also like Pale Moon because it supports nearly all of the Firefox extensions, so you get Ad-Block, etc..

http://www.palemoon.org/

Also, what is perceived as a Memory Leak in Firefox actually isn't.  Firefox will by default automatically adjust the number of history pages PER TAB.  So think of how many sites/pages you flip through (per tab) in a browsing session.  If you're like me, that's a LOT.  Making an adjustment is explained after the link and really does help address the memory problem somewhat.

http://annoyances-resolved.blogspot.com/2011/05/firefox-memory-problem-solved-or-rather.html

 

 

on May 02, 2013

I like Chrome but the inability to lock or protect pinned tabs (gmail & voice esp) kills it for me. For me, memory usage is higher with Chrome. Firefox does a much better job with extensions & plugins and overall customization.

ps. I use Tab Utilities extension to pin, lock & protect tabs as well as direct all links to open in a new tab. Lost without it.

on May 02, 2013

Chrome all the way. Used firefox before, but it died to bloat. Plus Chrome supports hardware accelerated rendering (must be switched on by the config), which is super fast. 

As for IE 10, it's Windows 8 only at present, and I am not going that way. Windows 7 is a perfect gaming OS, and I do all my work in Linux. 

on May 02, 2013

I have IE10 currently running on several Win7 machines.

on May 02, 2013

Kamamura_CZ
As for IE 10, it's Windows 8 only at present

 

Nope, sorry.

 

on May 02, 2013

Dang, Daiwa, I was too slow...lol.

 

I don't like IE10 for 7 with WC.co m, but otherwise, it's ok.

on May 02, 2013

RedneckDude
Dang, Daiwa, I was too slow...lol.

 

I don't like IE10 for 7 with WC.co m, but otherwise, it's ok.
Yeah, but y'all posted a purdy picture.

on May 02, 2013

The 64-bit distinction is important so good RND posted the purdy pic.

on May 02, 2013

RedneckDude
Quoting Kamamura_CZ, reply 33As for IE 10, it's Windows 8 only at present
 
Nope, sorry.
 
Reduced 57%Original 1038 x 644

 

 

RnD...still not using the shape tool.

 

Just realized how to get him motivated.

 

 

 

on May 02, 2013

LOL at Doc. I agree. That's putting the sheep into Photosheep!  (I think he circled that using his toes)

on May 02, 2013

   

 

"Photosheep- The Redneck Edition".  

on May 02, 2013

FYI, that was the snipping tool.

I was giving Bessie a good shearing...

on May 02, 2013

RedneckDude

FYI, that was the snipping tool.

I was giving Bessie a good shearing...

Sheer nonsense. Stop trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

on May 02, 2013

Wow, Palemoon is cool, its slightly faster, but i still get the issue where most of Youtube's images are missing and just white.

EDIT:

AdblockPlus was blocking Youtube's main image code at my request...oops.

on May 06, 2013

..fairly straight forward, you think...

use both.

 

eg.. i use ff normally with noscript and all. that doesn't work with certain googledocs.. so.. i use chrome for that

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