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>It's faster Faster than old fox? Yes. Faster than Chrome? Nope. Still long way to go.

by konart 9y ago

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Osiris 9y ago
Faster in what way? There are multiple subsystems in a browser.
seba_dos1 9y ago
Nothing can beat Chrome in being the fastest to become unusable when opening many tabs ;)
- konart 9y ago
  How many? I typically have 2 windows with ~30-50 tabs opened in each of them. No problem at all, never was.
  - seba_dos1 9y ago
    I typically have hundreds, sometimes low thousands of tabs opened in Firefox on 8GB RAM and it works well, while ~30-50 is an upper limit of what Chrome can do without bringing the whole system to swapping hell. Plus, Chrome's tab UI makes more tabs completely unusable, while vanilla Firefox works well and can also offer massive improvements like vertical tabs.
    - konart 9y ago
      Okay. Hands down here. Never could get this kind of use case, never had such an experience either, so may be by the time you have 1000+ tubs Chrome does kill itself. >Chrome's tab UI makes more tabs completely unusable True, thankfully we have extensions that deal with this (I've been using Keepin' Tabs for this, until I started using cVim)
    - ko27 9y ago
      > I typically have hundreds, sometimes low thousands of tabs They should probably ditch all in-memory stuff, and just use the drive, so they can support those cases when you really want to have a "low millions of tabs open."
- laken 9y ago
  Very true. Chrome can never handle my 150+ tabs per window that Firefox can.
  - nkkollaw 9y ago
    What do you do with 150 tabs? When I have 20 open I already start to get confused about where stuff is...
    - nachtigall 9y ago
      With Tree Style Tabs plus the Awesome bar it is not a problem to handle and it's easy to get up to this number over the day.
      - nkkollaw 9y ago
        But, so I guess you open links in a new tab and don't bother closing them?
        unicornporn 9y ago
        I easily reach a hundred tabs with Tree Style Tabs when researching a topic. The tree structure makes it easy to understand how you've navigated the web and to traceback where you came from. When I found what I've what I was looking for I start closing tabs. The ones that remain is my catch and I save the URLs and/or contents.
        nkkollaw 9y ago
        Gotcha. Interesting. :-)
        nachtigall 9y ago
        Just for completeness: * Firefox's Awesomebar (the address bar) is much more powerful. Whereas Chromes sends you to google mainly: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=awesome-bar-find-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs#w_changing-results-on-the-fly_2 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire... * Tree Style Tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
- ko27 9y ago
  There is so much FF PR talk here.
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>It's faster Faster than old fox? Yes. Faster than Chrome? Nope. Still long way to go.

by konart 9y ago

>It's faster Faster than old fox? Yes. Faster than Chrome? Nope. Still long way to go.

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Osiris 9y ago

Faster in what way? There are multiple subsystems in a browser.

seba_dos1 9y ago

Nothing can beat Chrome in being the fastest to become unusable when opening many tabs ;)

konart 9y ago
How many? I typically have 2 windows with ~30-50 tabs opened in each of them. No problem at all, never was.
- seba_dos1 9y ago
  I typically have hundreds, sometimes low thousands of tabs opened in Firefox on 8GB RAM and it works well, while ~30-50 is an upper limit of what Chrome can do without bringing the whole system to swapping hell. Plus, Chrome's tab UI makes more tabs completely unusable, while vanilla Firefox works well and can also offer massive improvements like vertical tabs.
  - konart 9y ago
    Okay. Hands down here. Never could get this kind of use case, never had such an experience either, so may be by the time you have 1000+ tubs Chrome does kill itself. >Chrome's tab UI makes more tabs completely unusable True, thankfully we have extensions that deal with this (I've been using Keepin' Tabs for this, until I started using cVim)
  - ko27 9y ago
    > I typically have hundreds, sometimes low thousands of tabs They should probably ditch all in-memory stuff, and just use the drive, so they can support those cases when you really want to have a "low millions of tabs open."
laken 9y ago
Very true. Chrome can never handle my 150+ tabs per window that Firefox can.
- nkkollaw 9y ago
  What do you do with 150 tabs? When I have 20 open I already start to get confused about where stuff is...
  - nachtigall 9y ago
    With Tree Style Tabs plus the Awesome bar it is not a problem to handle and it's easy to get up to this number over the day.
    - nkkollaw 9y ago
      But, so I guess you open links in a new tab and don't bother closing them?
      - unicornporn 9y ago
        I easily reach a hundred tabs with Tree Style Tabs when researching a topic. The tree structure makes it easy to understand how you've navigated the web and to traceback where you came from. When I found what I've what I was looking for I start closing tabs. The ones that remain is my catch and I save the URLs and/or contents.
        nkkollaw 9y ago
        Gotcha. Interesting. :-)
        nachtigall 9y ago
        Just for completeness: * Firefox's Awesomebar (the address bar) is much more powerful. Whereas Chromes sends you to google mainly: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=awesome-bar-find-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs#w_changing-results-on-the-fly_2 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire... * Tree Style Tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
ko27 9y ago
There is so much FF PR talk here.

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