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I don’t know why people use chrome over Firefox. Chrome still uses a crazy amount of ram for me compared to Firefox And I just discovered this week that zoomin

I don’t know why people use chrome over Firefox. Chrome still uses a crazy amount of ram for me compared to Firefox And I just discovered this week that zooming in chrome affects ALL tabs not just the one you’re on. And they marked the bug as won’t fix so you need a bloody plugin to zoom a single tab.

epolanski 4y ago
> And I just discovered this week that zooming in chrome affects ALL tabs not just the one you’re on. I don't have this issue in ALL tabs, but only the tabs sharing the same origin which makes sense if you ask me, doesn't seem a bug.
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  Hmmm I’ll retest on Monday. I have an external monitor to my laptop and needed to zoom 1 tab on 1 screen to write a doc on the second screen and when I zoomed the laptop screen cos it was too small I zoomed the external screen. So annoying. Even if is only same origin, the fact they lock the setting for individual tab zooming so it can only be changed by a browser extension is so stupid.
lbriner 4y ago
I moved from Firefox to Chrome after using FF for a long time because of the opposite. FF randomnly locked up and used tonnes of RAM, not consistently but occasionally. As someone who uses the browser a lot for work, I cannot have randomn lock ups happening for seconds at a time and not have this treated as a priority 1 bugfix by mozilla.
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  I get lock ups in Chrome but not Firefox… i always need to close tabs on my work laptop cos chrome gets laggy. (Other apps are fine when chrome is laggy)
- timbit42 4y ago
  I think this depends on which OS you are using. Firefox is stable on some and not others, while Chrome uses less RAM on some and more on others.
haunter 4y ago
>And I just discovered this week that zooming in chrome affects ALL tabs You mean all tabs sharing the same origin? eg I zoom in on the HN front page then I open a comment section on another tab that will be zommed in too. Make sense imo
- fsflover 4y ago
  This is how it works in Firefox for me, too.
  - philliphaydon 4y ago
    I think firefox applies my settings across all devices cos you can change it in firefox, I forget that, so it's been set for so long I forgot it's a setting. > browser.zoom.siteSpecific Set that to false and it will apply to only the tab you're on. The setting in Chrome exists but cannot be modified.

epolanski 4y ago

> And I just discovered this week that zooming in chrome affects ALL tabs not just the one you’re on. I don't have this issue in ALL tabs, but only the tabs sharing the same origin which makes sense if you ask me, doesn't seem a bug.

philliphaydon 4y ago
Hmmm I’ll retest on Monday. I have an external monitor to my laptop and needed to zoom 1 tab on 1 screen to write a doc on the second screen and when I zoomed the laptop screen cos it was too small I zoomed the external screen. So annoying. Even if is only same origin, the fact they lock the setting for individual tab zooming so it can only be changed by a browser extension is so stupid.

lbriner 4y ago

I moved from Firefox to Chrome after using FF for a long time because of the opposite. FF randomnly locked up and used tonnes of RAM, not consistently but occasionally. As someone who uses the browser a lot for work, I cannot have randomn lock ups happening for seconds at a time and not have this treated as a priority 1 bugfix by mozilla.

philliphaydon 4y ago
I get lock ups in Chrome but not Firefox… i always need to close tabs on my work laptop cos chrome gets laggy. (Other apps are fine when chrome is laggy)
timbit42 4y ago
I think this depends on which OS you are using. Firefox is stable on some and not others, while Chrome uses less RAM on some and more on others.

haunter 4y ago

>And I just discovered this week that zooming in chrome affects ALL tabs You mean all tabs sharing the same origin? eg I zoom in on the HN front page then I open a comment section on another tab that will be zommed in too. Make sense imo

fsflover 4y ago
This is how it works in Firefox for me, too.
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  I think firefox applies my settings across all devices cos you can change it in firefox, I forget that, so it's been set for so long I forgot it's a setting. > browser.zoom.siteSpecific Set that to false and it will apply to only the tab you're on. The setting in Chrome exists but cannot be modified.