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> Closed source = vaporware Then why has Firefox been the 'shit' browser for the better part of a decade now? Best battery life (usually by a 2-4h difference!

> Closed source = vaporware Then why has Firefox been the 'shit' browser for the better part of a decade now? Best battery life (usually by a 2-4h difference!) -> use Edge/Safari Best stability -> use Chrome Best performance -> use Blink-based browser Most extensions -> use Firefox (Chrome has 90% of the FF extensions available though) Hell, Firefox still doesn't have e10s fully working, so one tab takes down the entire browser. Slow sites lock up the UI. Scrolling sometimes still isn't smooth. Plus, Firefox is ugly, especially on mobile. and whilst its admirable they still prop up Gecko, its a substandard rendering engine compared to Webkit, Blink or Trident/EdgeHMTL.

m45t3r 10y ago
Low memory usage is a Firefox win at least, partially because they don't have true multi process yet. I would gladly switch to Firefox on my dev machine (opening both Photoshop, Visual Studio and Chrome in a 8GB RAM system is a recipe to disaster), if their development tools didn't suck.
- tornadoboy55 10y ago
  Do you you use macOS, Linux or Windows? Because if it's the first, that's pretty weird behavior. macOS is very good at compressing and vacating memory as necessary..
webmaven 10y ago
Given your interest in rendering engines, you may be interested in the work being done by Mozilla folks on Servo: https://servo.org/ https://servo.org/
bigbugbag 10y ago
You want to give domination of the internet to one giant tax evading transnational advertising company -> use chrome / blink based browser. Sorry but not everyone thinks in short term personal interest, some prefer to see the internet and web as a collective good that has to be preserved with a long term vision. I have a lot of criticism of mozilla and firefox but I would not ever advise anyone to use a GAFM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft) product or service.

m45t3r 10y ago

Low memory usage is a Firefox win at least, partially because they don't have true multi process yet. I would gladly switch to Firefox on my dev machine (opening both Photoshop, Visual Studio and Chrome in a 8GB RAM system is a recipe to disaster), if their development tools didn't suck.

tornadoboy55 10y ago
Do you you use macOS, Linux or Windows? Because if it's the first, that's pretty weird behavior. macOS is very good at compressing and vacating memory as necessary..

webmaven 10y ago

Given your interest in rendering engines, you may be interested in the work being done by Mozilla folks on Servo: https://servo.org/ https://servo.org/

bigbugbag 10y ago

You want to give domination of the internet to one giant tax evading transnational advertising company -> use chrome / blink based browser. Sorry but not everyone thinks in short term personal interest, some prefer to see the internet and web as a collective good that has to be preserved with a long term vision. I have a lot of criticism of mozilla and firefox but I would not ever advise anyone to use a GAFM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft) product or service.