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Everything you said is absolutely true. Firefox rocks my world for all those reasons and more. Hell, I would use it just for the Tree-Style Tabs addon, which

by pzxc 12y ago

Everything you said is absolutely true. Firefox rocks my world for all those reasons and more. Hell, I would use it just for the Tree-Style Tabs addon, which isn't available for Chrome. But I use Chrome at least as often as Firefox for one reason alone: when everything doesn't go smoothly and a page does crash, it doesn't take the whole browser down with it. When Firefox hangs and/or crashes, it's much more annoying because everything is interrupted to a greater degree. Chrome: Oops! This tab crashed, just reload it or close it and move on. Firefox: Firefox has encountered an error and must be closed. Do you wish to debug? As someone who spends a third of the day on the web professionally, and always has 10-50 tabs open, it matters.

findjashua 12y ago
+1 switched to ffox primarily because of tree-style tabs.
- MetaCosm 12y ago
  Forever on Firefox because of tree-style tabs.
- deleted 12y ago
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jdpage 12y ago
Yeah, the tab thing is in progress. The problem is that Chrome was designed from the ground up to be process-per-tab, while Firefox is having to adapt extensive existing code. Thankfully, plugins made it into their own processes a while ago, which has greatly reduced the number of crashes.
JohnTHaller 12y ago
I don't really encounter bugs in Firefox more than maybe once a month. That said, per-tab multi-process is coming as part of Electrolysis: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis You can follow along the roadmap here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Roadmap https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Roadmap It's already available in Nightly builds just disabled by default. If you'd like to try out a Nightly on Windows without messing with your local copy of Firefox, grab a copy of Firefox Portable Nightly and it'll run with it's own separate profile and Firefox install without affecting your local one: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test#nightly http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test#...
CyberShadow 12y ago
Fortunately, Mozilla has been working on this problem for a while now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis I believe you can enable it right now in about:config (browser.tabs.remote), but it's not production-quality yet.
- cpeterso 12y ago
  In Firefox Nightly, you can just use File menu > Open e10s Window menu item to open a new e10s without restarting Firefox, but setting the browser.tabs.remote.autostart pref in about:config will enable some extra compatibility code for some add-ons.

by pzxc 12y ago

findjashua 12y ago

+1 switched to ffox primarily because of tree-style tabs.

MetaCosm 12y ago
Forever on Firefox because of tree-style tabs.
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jdpage 12y ago

Yeah, the tab thing is in progress. The problem is that Chrome was designed from the ground up to be process-per-tab, while Firefox is having to adapt extensive existing code. Thankfully, plugins made it into their own processes a while ago, which has greatly reduced the number of crashes.

JohnTHaller 12y ago

I don't really encounter bugs in Firefox more than maybe once a month. That said, per-tab multi-process is coming as part of Electrolysis: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis You can follow along the roadmap here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Roadmap https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Roadmap It's already available in Nightly builds just disabled by default. If you'd like to try out a Nightly on Windows without messing with your local copy of Firefox, grab a copy of Firefox Portable Nightly and it'll run with it's own separate profile and Firefox install without affecting your local one: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test#nightly http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test#...

CyberShadow 12y ago

Fortunately, Mozilla has been working on this problem for a while now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis I believe you can enable it right now in about:config (browser.tabs.remote), but it's not production-quality yet.

cpeterso 12y ago
In Firefox Nightly, you can just use File menu > Open e10s Window menu item to open a new e10s without restarting Firefox, but setting the browser.tabs.remote.autostart pref in about:config will enable some extra compatibility code for some add-ons.