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>I switched a couple of months ago because Chrome is just a bloated piece of garbage I switched to Chrome a few years ago (and even to a Chromebox as my daily
by ryanmercer 7y ago
>I switched a couple of months ago because Chrome is just a bloated piece of garbage
I switched to Chrome a few years ago (and even to a Chromebox as my daily driver, on my second now because I wanted Android app support) because Firefox was a bloated piece of garbage, if I left 5-10 tabs open for a few weeks in Windows they'd be using several gigabytes of memory from a leak, memory use growing hourly.
Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted, this is even on Mozilla's own site showing it hasn't been fixed:
"Firefox's memory usage may increase if it's left open for long periods of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox"
With an alternate solution being:
"Add RAM to your computer" ... "RAM is cheap"
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-m...
I have not had this issue at all with Chrome in Windows 7, Windows 10 or ChromeOS.
- JoshMnem 7y agoIt's already fixed: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/03/01/firefox-67-automatically-unload-unused-tabs-to-improve-memory/ https://www.ghacks.net/2019/03/01/firefox-67-automatically-u... There's also this: https://www.ghacks.net/2012/05/22/make-firefox-more-responsive-with-suspend-background-tabs/ https://www.ghacks.net/2012/05/22/make-firefox-more-responsi...