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I bailed on Firefox about 12 months ago after several years of being a very evangelistic user. It took forever to load and the JS engine leaked like a sieve.

by crikli 15y ago

I bailed on Firefox about 12 months ago after several years of being a very evangelistic user. It took forever to load and the JS engine leaked like a sieve. Of course it didn't help that I was using Firebug, but then Firebug was the whole reason I used Firefox instead of Safari or Chrome. Without Firebug there was not a compelling reason to use Firefox. So I switched to Chrome and got used to their Inspector. I missed padding and margin being shaded in different colors, but then I didn't have to restart the browser after every 5 page loads when doing heavy JS UI development. The newer builds of Firefox are fantastic. It loads instantly and the JS engine has been patched up. But it's too late.

Jimmie 15y ago
I used to love Firefox too but after opening 20 pages it would slow to a crawl. I bailed for Chrome even though Firefox's version of Adblock is vastly superior. Firefox still runs poorly for me and until that changes they have no hope of winning me back. Who knows, maybe it's partly my fault that it doesn't run well or maybe there are some settings I can tweak to boost it's performance but even if that were the case I want my browser to work out of the box.
firefoxman1 15y ago
Would it be wrong for Mozilla to swallow their pride and adopt V8 as their JS engine? I've gotten really sick of mem leaks slowing down my netbook to be completely unusable if I happen to visit certain sites. It's not that there's a ton of JS on the page; it's just that Firefox's engine doesn't handle leaks as well.
- khyryk 15y ago
  Could you give some examples? I have 2 HN, 3 YouTube, 1 Google Search, 1 python.org, 2 eBay, and 1 Gmail tabs open and memory usage is 300,000 kb. No one (who is reasonable) would have 30 tabs open on a netbook, so I'm not even considering that. Funnily enough, I have FF on my older laptop (dual core 1.2 gHz, 1.5 GB RAM) for blocking a bunch of useless scripts that slow me down and drain my battery.

by crikli 15y ago

Jimmie 15y ago

I used to love Firefox too but after opening 20 pages it would slow to a crawl. I bailed for Chrome even though Firefox's version of Adblock is vastly superior. Firefox still runs poorly for me and until that changes they have no hope of winning me back. Who knows, maybe it's partly my fault that it doesn't run well or maybe there are some settings I can tweak to boost it's performance but even if that were the case I want my browser to work out of the box.

firefoxman1 15y ago

Would it be wrong for Mozilla to swallow their pride and adopt V8 as their JS engine? I've gotten really sick of mem leaks slowing down my netbook to be completely unusable if I happen to visit certain sites. It's not that there's a ton of JS on the page; it's just that Firefox's engine doesn't handle leaks as well.

khyryk 15y ago
Could you give some examples? I have 2 HN, 3 YouTube, 1 Google Search, 1 python.org, 2 eBay, and 1 Gmail tabs open and memory usage is 300,000 kb. No one (who is reasonable) would have 30 tabs open on a netbook, so I'm not even considering that. Funnily enough, I have FF on my older laptop (dual core 1.2 gHz, 1.5 GB RAM) for blocking a bunch of useless scripts that slow me down and drain my battery.