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I've decided to make Firefox my main browser after yesterday's discussion. Migrating from Chrome was relatively painless: * Firefox could import my bookmarks a
by arkitaip 9y ago
I've decided to make Firefox my main browser after yesterday's discussion. Migrating from Chrome was relatively painless:
* Firefox could import my bookmarks and, equally important, most passwords without a problem.
* Firefox's syncing capabilities seems to sync everything that's important.
* There's a built-in dark theme, people! It isn't applied to empty tabs, though.
* You can customize the toolbar. Not nearly as powerful as Opera's visual editor but better than Chrome's.
* Many plugins haven't been ported to 57.
* It uses a lot of RAM. I only have two tabs open and 5 plugins active yet Firefox uses 500 MB. Doesn't really bother me because I can sacrifice RAM for performance.
* The unified address/search bar is better than Chrome's because it actually consistently searches your bookmarks and not randomly like Chrome. Also, because you can add metadata to your Firefox bookmarks, you can add synonyms and what not to make searching for bookmarks even more powerful.
* I absolutly love that Firefox makes it possible to create custom search engines via the context menu. Also, you can easily add shortcuts to specific bookmarks? Brilliant.
- seba_dos1 9y ago>It uses a lot of RAM I think Firefox uses a bit more RAM than Chrome when being just opened with fresh session. The point is - that value doesn't increase so massively when opening more tabs as with Chrome. On my machine with 8 GB RAM, Chrome is just unusable, as it eats the whole RAM and everything starts to swap. If you actually use the browser, Firefox clearly wins regarding RAM usage. Here, right now, with 136 tabs open and 20 extensions, Firefox Nightly uses 2 GB of RAM, with 0.5 GB being used by 1 one of 8 content processes (so probably mostly by long-running Facebook tab, which is massive resource hog). Chrome would eat the whole 8 GB somewhere around 30-50 tabs already.