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One reason is missing. When Google has dominant market share, they use it to destroy the web and move to Google. You may or may not like AMP (I don't) but they
by sam_goody 9y ago
One reason is missing.
When Google has dominant market share, they use it to destroy the web and move to Google.
You may or may not like AMP (I don't) but they way it is implemented is to create a Google only parallel web, and as long as users are on Chrome they see that web only - and it becomes the standard.
They have suggested changes to what ads are acceptable and how they should be handled, and I don't trust them to set that standard either.
An example of this is the recent webassembly changes, where Google ceded to Mozilla's vision [1].
As they gain more of a monopoly with their platform, they will abuse that power more.
Keep FF around so that they can have a hand in what becomes standard on the web.
Also, as far as privacy, it is not stressed enough. Most people don't realize that all of your browsing on Chrome is sent to Google. What page, how long you visited, etc. I've read that Chrome has special handling of pages with Analytics installed. The privacy invasions of what should be called Google TrackingTool would make "browser toolbars" and viruses of past ages proud.
BTW, I have more than 600 tabs open now in FF [8GB ram] and it is browsing along fine. Now, I know that I am insane, but try just 60 tabs in Chrome and see all sorts of weird crashes.
[1] http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/webassembly-mozilla-won.html http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/webassembly-mozilla-won....
- itp 9y agoTo your last point, I literally just counted after reading your comment without changing anything. I have 68 tabs open in Chrome (over four windows, two each in two different profiles), and this is fairly representative of my usage since my laptop was last rebooted (19 days and change) and I have had zero issues. Counterpoint: I have 16 GB of memory in this computer. Counterpoint to my counterpoint: I have had Emacs running the entire time as well, and IntelliJ running most of the time (it periodically freezes after monitor connect/disconnect events and has to be restarted).
- ktta 9y agoSSD swap stats?
- Tharre 9y agoWhy does one need 600 tabs open in his browser though? I've ditched that habit years ago (ironically by switching to chromium), and it has been a major improvement for me.
- jabwork 9y agoI regularly have 200+ FF tabs open, but FF steadily grows in memory usage. Normally I have to restart around 3gb due to notably degraded performance (around every 4 days ). Do you use extensions to avoid this?
- zimablue 9y agoDifferent guy but I use tree tab which cures it because they naturally organise by topic and you canjust slam then into a nested bookmark folder or close en mass. I still end up with a lot but they're easier to browse and persist so it hovers around 50