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I am very happy that the Firefox team has finally managed to lick this issue. When at every occasion I used to raise this issue, the typical Mozilla Evangelist

I am very happy that the Firefox team has finally managed to lick this issue. When at every occasion I used to raise this issue, the typical Mozilla Evangelist would answer: "It is because of the add-ons". My counter to this was that the whole Raison d'être for Firefox is its add-ons community. You cannot claim that there are great benefits to this approach while simultaneously ignoring the problems caused by it. Better late than never. It is critical to have a popular browser alternative to Either IE or Chrome. One is closed source and the other is produced by a company whose entire revenue model is built around showing you the most targeted ads possible in the maximum number of ways possible.

bru 14y ago
>One is closed source Actually, so is Chrome.
- pilif 14y ago
  The differences between Chrome and Chromium are minimal - aside of Chrome bunding some mostly unwanted plugins: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoog...
  - azakai 14y ago
    That list appears to be incomplete. For example, there is a windows-specific closed source software renderer for WebGL that is in Chrome and not Chromium.
  - freehunter 14y ago
    Good lord those comments gave me a headache. How do people manage to find that page if they can't manage to figure out what Chrome or Chromium are in the first place?
- throwaway54-762 14y ago
  You're free to run Chromium instead of Chrome. I do.
kalid 14y ago
I agree. It was extremely frustrating to see the argument "Firefox is awesome because of the add-ons. Oh, you have problems? Why are you using add-ons?". You can't have it both ways! (Also: users don't care what subsystem is causing the problem, it's your brand which suffers) That said, I'm happy for them and I'll start giving FireFox a shot again.
- nnethercote 14y ago
  If someone says "don't use add-ons", they are stupid. If someone says "you might want to be careful enabling 20 add-ons because the chances of them all being well-written and interacting nicely is low, in which case you might need to do some experimentation to see if one or two of them are causing undue problems", they are a realist. Having said that, it is nice that we are killing off an entire class of memory leaks in one fell swoop.

bru 14y ago

>One is closed source Actually, so is Chrome.

pilif 14y ago
The differences between Chrome and Chromium are minimal - aside of Chrome bunding some mostly unwanted plugins: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoog...
- azakai 14y ago
  That list appears to be incomplete. For example, there is a windows-specific closed source software renderer for WebGL that is in Chrome and not Chromium.
- freehunter 14y ago
  Good lord those comments gave me a headache. How do people manage to find that page if they can't manage to figure out what Chrome or Chromium are in the first place?
throwaway54-762 14y ago
You're free to run Chromium instead of Chrome. I do.

kalid 14y ago

I agree. It was extremely frustrating to see the argument "Firefox is awesome because of the add-ons. Oh, you have problems? Why are you using add-ons?". You can't have it both ways! (Also: users don't care what subsystem is causing the problem, it's your brand which suffers) That said, I'm happy for them and I'll start giving FireFox a shot again.

nnethercote 14y ago
If someone says "don't use add-ons", they are stupid. If someone says "you might want to be careful enabling 20 add-ons because the chances of them all being well-written and interacting nicely is low, in which case you might need to do some experimentation to see if one or two of them are causing undue problems", they are a realist. Having said that, it is nice that we are killing off an entire class of memory leaks in one fell swoop.