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I consider myself concerned enough about Google, and supportive enough of having Firefox as an alternative, that I feel somewhat guilty for giving up on switchi
by mercer 8y ago
I consider myself concerned enough about Google, and supportive enough of having Firefox as an alternative, that I feel somewhat guilty for giving up on switching to Firefox about once a year (at least). And yet I keep doing so, because for whatever inexplicable reason I prefer Chrome enough, or dislike Firefox enough, to keep switching back to the former.
While your comment prompts me to try again and figure out why this is the case exactly, Google's marketing is not the reason for me (and, unfortunately, others too).
If I had to guess, I'd say it usually boils down to a feeling of clunkiness and weird hogging of memory/processing, whether true or just perceived. I've read some threads that indicate this is a problem for Mac users in particular, but I don't know if this is actually true.
- basic1 8y agoThe Mac/Linux Firefox ports have never been good, their success was unearned and they were quickly replaced when a competitor came along.
- abdullahkhalids 8y agoBeen using Linux Firefox for over a decade - five years on a toshiba Core 2 Duo laptop with 2 GB ram and a harddisk. Never had any performance complaints even though I sometimes opened >20 tabs.
- mercer 8y agoCould you elaborate on the contents of those tabs? I often have more than 20 tabs open, but even in Chrome this can cause some issues. Nonetheless Firefox seemed worse at it, and perhaps this has to do with the nature of the tabs I have open?
- abdullahkhalids 8y agoAs a university student back in the day I would perpetually have gmail, facebook, university email, youtube open - all js heavy websites. Others tabs were links from HN, wikipedia and/or pdf class notes. Even developed a website for my department at some point, all on firefox.