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This has been exactly my experience. I was an early convert to Chrome, and I loved how fast it was, but now I find it slow and buggy. There are some partial wor

This has been exactly my experience. I was an early convert to Chrome, and I loved how fast it was, but now I find it slow and buggy. There are some partial workarounds: Chrome does a cache lookup on your history when you type, so if you delete your history, then you get a speed bump. But I'm annoyed that I have to erase my history. If I never erase my history, Chrome gets very slow after a few months of history piling up. And when I have many windows open it is slower, and when Flash is running, it often crashes. I've switched back to FireFox.

gear54rus 12y ago
I never switched to chrome since it seemed sub-par all that time (reduced set of controls, dumbed down all the way) but flash-related crashes are Adobe's problem actually (I also have them on FF sometimes). When will this proprietary crap die off already?
- rockdoe 12y ago
  There's an article about Shumway on the front page :)
- mtrimpe 12y ago
  Chrome doesn't run Adobe Flash; it runs its own version called PepperFlash by default. I know because I witnessed them breaking one Flash video-recording feature after the other trying to reimplement the damn thing...
  - jaredsohn 12y ago
    >Chrome doesn't run Adobe Flash Yeah, it does. Pepper Flash is just Flash repackaged to use Chrome's new plug-in architecture; it is still written by Adobe. (Although perhaps Chrome does deserve the blame for some crashes related to how it integrates with the browser.)
    - bzbarsky 12y ago
      Pepper Flash is maintained by Google themselves, not by Adobe, as far as I can tell.
      - jaredsohn 12y ago
        Looks like you are right; googling it definitely suggests that. Thanks for the correction.
- layman 12y ago
  You do realize that Chrome is different from Chromium, the open source browser, right?
  - gear54rus 12y ago
    I guess yes. What difference does it make in the context?
colin_jack 12y ago
Its been my recent experience too, I keep a lot of tabs open and began to notice Chrome was filling up my memory. Very strange that Google let the situation get so bad. Mind you I find the Chrome developer tools far more powerful and intuitive than those in Firefox which stops me moving entirely.
- rockdoe 12y ago
  The Firefox Devtools team regularly probes the webdev community on the features they need - make sure you let them know (and don't be surprised if they're in Aurora already).
  - e15ctr0n 12y ago
    The Firefox Devtools team even did an Ask HN[1] and then folowed up 10 days later[2] with the feedback they got. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325445 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393864
  - colin_jack 12y ago
    Ta yeah, I probably should but its usually just I don't find the approach the UI takes intuitive in a lot of cases. Even just things like doing a search, viewing results, compared to Chrome I find it all a little painful...not sure that's the sort of thing I can meaningfully report though.
- AtmaScout 12y ago
  I agree with you about the developer tools. One of the main reasons I use Chrome over Firefox.
- mason55 12y ago
  > I keep a lot of tabs open and began to notice Chrome was filling up my memory. I had this problem too and found that Chrome was getting so slow that it was unusable. For those who have this problem and don't want to switch from Chrome there is an extension called "The Great Suspender" which dumps background tabs after a configurable time period of inactivity. It helped immensely.
speeder 12y ago
There is any browser that tolerates flash properly? My associate had a machine that would RESET because of flash (we know it is flash because it would only start to randomly reset if flash was running somewhere on the machine), no matter what browser. And in my personal experience flash could crash ALL browsers open at once, one time flash crashing on MSN Messenger partially froze my entire machine, after 10 minutes wrestling it to get to the task manager (yep, sometimes I am stupid) and close flash process, the machine came back to normal.

gear54rus 12y ago

I never switched to chrome since it seemed sub-par all that time (reduced set of controls, dumbed down all the way) but flash-related crashes are Adobe's problem actually (I also have them on FF sometimes). When will this proprietary crap die off already?

rockdoe 12y ago
There's an article about Shumway on the front page :)
mtrimpe 12y ago
Chrome doesn't run Adobe Flash; it runs its own version called PepperFlash by default. I know because I witnessed them breaking one Flash video-recording feature after the other trying to reimplement the damn thing...
- jaredsohn 12y ago
  >Chrome doesn't run Adobe Flash Yeah, it does. Pepper Flash is just Flash repackaged to use Chrome's new plug-in architecture; it is still written by Adobe. (Although perhaps Chrome does deserve the blame for some crashes related to how it integrates with the browser.)
  - bzbarsky 12y ago
    Pepper Flash is maintained by Google themselves, not by Adobe, as far as I can tell.
    - jaredsohn 12y ago
      Looks like you are right; googling it definitely suggests that. Thanks for the correction.
layman 12y ago
You do realize that Chrome is different from Chromium, the open source browser, right?
- gear54rus 12y ago
  I guess yes. What difference does it make in the context?

colin_jack 12y ago

Its been my recent experience too, I keep a lot of tabs open and began to notice Chrome was filling up my memory. Very strange that Google let the situation get so bad. Mind you I find the Chrome developer tools far more powerful and intuitive than those in Firefox which stops me moving entirely.

rockdoe 12y ago
The Firefox Devtools team regularly probes the webdev community on the features they need - make sure you let them know (and don't be surprised if they're in Aurora already).
- e15ctr0n 12y ago
  The Firefox Devtools team even did an Ask HN[1] and then folowed up 10 days later[2] with the feedback they got. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325445 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393864
- colin_jack 12y ago
  Ta yeah, I probably should but its usually just I don't find the approach the UI takes intuitive in a lot of cases. Even just things like doing a search, viewing results, compared to Chrome I find it all a little painful...not sure that's the sort of thing I can meaningfully report though.
AtmaScout 12y ago
I agree with you about the developer tools. One of the main reasons I use Chrome over Firefox.
mason55 12y ago
> I keep a lot of tabs open and began to notice Chrome was filling up my memory. I had this problem too and found that Chrome was getting so slow that it was unusable. For those who have this problem and don't want to switch from Chrome there is an extension called "The Great Suspender" which dumps background tabs after a configurable time period of inactivity. It helped immensely.

speeder 12y ago

There is any browser that tolerates flash properly? My associate had a machine that would RESET because of flash (we know it is flash because it would only start to randomly reset if flash was running somewhere on the machine), no matter what browser. And in my personal experience flash could crash ALL browsers open at once, one time flash crashing on MSN Messenger partially froze my entire machine, after 10 minutes wrestling it to get to the task manager (yep, sometimes I am stupid) and close flash process, the machine came back to normal.