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The more people use webkit based browsers and less of the others the better the world will be. I feel for the guys at Mozilla but I can not recommend Firefox to
by btipling 16y ago
The more people use webkit based browsers and less of the others the better the world will be. I feel for the guys at Mozilla but I can not recommend Firefox to anyone, at least not on Macs. It is the slowest application I run. Application switching to or from Firefox is amazingly slow, as in I can count the finger of my hands as I am simply alt+tabbing to Firefox. In addition it eats memory and if you leave it open long enough it just starts bugging out in weird ways.
- rbarooah 16y ago4.0 seems a lot better to me.
- tristanperry 16y agoFirefox has been getting progressively more memory hungry, indeed. At the moment my Firefox is at 314 MB with very few addons and 4 tabs open (none of the tabs have flash or dynamic stuff going on). I've seen it reach half a gig of memory easily, too. I've heard that Firefox 4.0 is better though; will half to give it a shot soon.
- btipling 16y agoMozilla often says 'wait until the next version, the next version will fix all this.' A few versions later and the problems are still many and I doubt that this legacy will change.
- cpeterso 16y agoI remember when Firefox was the lightweight alternative to Mozilla. :\ Perhaps a new phoenix can rise from Firefox's hulk.
- amalcon 16y agoBecause a monoculture worked out so very well the last time. The more different browser engines are in use, the better the world will be, because that will force the engines to strive for compatibility. I'd love to see Opera gain some market share.
- btipling 16y agoWebkit is open source. It's a big difference. I agree I'd like to see Opera gain more market share as well.