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It's fast and have good extensions. But they should divert their resources from pointless UI redesigns (proton) to better memory and power management. I use FF
by Croftengea 5y ago
It's fast and have good extensions. But they should divert their resources from pointless UI redesigns (proton) to better memory and power management.
I use FF almost exclusively on a desktop but can't afford luxury of running it on a laptop.
- mdyaemon 5y agoNo idea why you can't afford to run it on a laptop. I use it in every single laptop I have, from 8gb RAM to 32gb of RAM, to my own smartphone, multiple tabs, multiple windows, etc etc and have no issue at all. I admit that power mgmt and memory was a big issue before, but it improved, and it's still improving.
- Croftengea 5y agoI mean, it consistently gives me highest energy score on a macbook.
- cies 5y agoAnd Chromium does not?
- Croftengea 5y agoSafari does not.
- cies 5y agoGood old KHTML :)
- Tagbert 5y agoI find that the video codecs used by sites are often the determining factors in that. If the site is playing videos using a codec that is handled well by the browser then the energy use is low. Otherwise it can jump up dramatically.
- godelmachine 5y agoI don’t think the memory management part has gotten anywhere at all. Open 10 tabs on Firefox and I lose 2-3GB of my RAM just like that. Chrome and Edge never cross 700MB. Firefox is a colossal RAM guzzler.
- pepoluan 5y agoI have the opposite problem. I regularly open lots of tabs, and Chrome just expands its real estate pushing things into swap. Firefox just chugs on like a champion.
- Tagbert 5y agoDefinitely the opposite of what I see, as well. The RAM think really depends on the websites and what resources they are allocating. The browser is really just accommodate that. Sites that do continuous scroll are the worst as they often don’t release resources as they go.