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I just switched back to Chrome again from Waterfox. It's crazy how even with only a few tabs open(Facebook, a few HN threads, some reddit and YouTube), Waterfox
by artmageddon 13y ago
I just switched back to Chrome again from Waterfox. It's crazy how even with only a few tabs open(Facebook, a few HN threads, some reddit and YouTube), Waterfox alone will bring my Core i7 with 8GB of RAM to a crawl. Even before I switched to Chrome, I was using IE 10 in tandem with Waterfox so that it wouldn't bog down my system so much.
Edit: Maybe it's just me? I'll have a look at my settings. Thanks!!
- jakub_g 13y agoHuh, it's always as many opinions as people regarding Firefox vs Chrome. I only experience Firefox crawling when opening looots of heavy tabs. Probably it's heavily a matter of 1) an operating system and 2) config. I use Windows XP / 7, lots of add-ons with customized settings and super strict AdBlock rules.
- leviathant 13y agoBrowse to about:memory in that bogged down Firefox and find out exactly what's bogging it down. As a web developer, Firefox is my main browser on an i7 8gb Win 8 machine and I can't remember any single time I've seen the browser bogged down.
- mccr8 13y agoOn an 8gb machine, the browsing being bogged down probably doesn't have anything to do with memory usage. To figure out what is making everything slow, you need to use the built-in profiler with Nightly. I was able to use it to track down browser slowness I very occasionally see to a particular line of code on Facebook.