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I was skeptical, but one month in, I have to admit the speed and stability gains are worth the lost addons. Fortunately for me, I only had to give up very small
by norswap 9y ago
I was skeptical, but one month in, I have to admit the speed and stability gains are worth the lost addons. Fortunately for me, I only had to give up very small conveniences.
I did lose a few hours over XMarks' inability to sync Firefox search keywords correctly anymore (it's not solved, but you can input the keywords yourself on all your machines and they won't be erased) but that's it.
- interfixus 9y agoI was skeptical, and one month in, I still sort of hate it, but there isn't really anywhere else to go. Firefox 1.0 arguably had better UI, or at least the option to make it better. Also, I remember running it on a 32MB machine. Today, with only this single HN tab open, memory consumption is reported at somewhere above half a gigabyte.
- norswap 9y agoThis pains me too. It's hard to believe that all the new "browser technology" is responsible for this bloat. On the other hand, I will trade memory use for many things. One thing that is infuriating to me is that despite the memory hog, a single tab can still crash the whole browser. All the memory use doesn't even buy you failure isolation.