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Sadly, while I appreciate the multi-process model of Chrome as a geek, it had almost nothing to do with why I switched: I'm a 64-bit Linux user. Firefox is, fro
by logic 16y ago
Sadly, while I appreciate the multi-process model of Chrome as a geek, it had almost nothing to do with why I switched: I'm a 64-bit Linux user. Firefox is, from a performance standpoint, almost unusable for me.
(On 32-bit Windows XP at work, Firefox is great, but there's value to me in a similar browsing configuration across machines.)
- sreque 16y agoWeird. My work machine is 64-bit Linux, and since we use GWT I have to use Firefox for debugging, but I have not noticed any performance problems. I have unfortunately noticed, however, than even with compressed OOPs, Eclipse, GWT, and maven devour memory like beasts!
- technomancy 16y agoTry the latest nightlies. They bring Mozilla back to within an imperceptible speed difference vs Chromium on my 64-bit Linux machine: http://nightly.mozilla.org/ http://nightly.mozilla.org/