Tuesday, March 29. 2011
Why i dropped FireFox as my standard browser
Browsers are your gateway to the internet, those nifty little apps that open almost any document, make sure you can enjoy the net.
Since many years now, i am using FireFox, it clearly was the best browser to use. For me no IE(..) that messed up sites and had so many holes in it, a mole would be proud having them digged. An alternative was Opera, but somehow i never got that 'feeling' it connects. So, Firefox was the way to go.
It truly was the better browser in speed, in safety in showing sites the way they were meant to be and for the many plug-ins and add-ones one could get.
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Sad to have noticed that since they introduced a 'plugin-container' in FF 3.6.4 to handle flash, quicktime, silverlight for videos, audio and online-games it keeps slowing down and even crashing.
One thing that may explain why is FireFox 'plugin-container'. It is literally feasting on memory as much as it can get. Up to 1Gb i have seen it use.
To put that into perspective, Google Chrome used in the exact same situation no more than 100 mb. Up till today that is, Chrome also choked on Flash and used almost 1Gb today.
Next to that the User Interface has changed so much that it still takes time to get used to the position of buttons. Why? Why would one change the UI so much after years? Never thought of users getting confused? Did someone shove his ideas down the throat of all?
I call upon the programmers of FF, Chrome and Adobe to fix the problems! For the mean time i wont use FF as my main browser anymore. Sad but true, a once genius browser has gone bonkers. Wish i never ever had switched to the new ones
(updated: march 30)
Since many years now, i am using FireFox, it clearly was the best browser to use. For me no IE(..) that messed up sites and had so many holes in it, a mole would be proud having them digged. An alternative was Opera, but somehow i never got that 'feeling' it connects. So, Firefox was the way to go.
It truly was the better browser in speed, in safety in showing sites the way they were meant to be and for the many plug-ins and add-ones one could get.
Processes active
Sad to have noticed that since they introduced a 'plugin-container' in FF 3.6.4 to handle flash, quicktime, silverlight for videos, audio and online-games it keeps slowing down and even crashing.
One thing that may explain why is FireFox 'plugin-container'. It is literally feasting on memory as much as it can get. Up to 1Gb i have seen it use.
To put that into perspective, Google Chrome used in the exact same situation no more than 100 mb. Up till today that is, Chrome also choked on Flash and used almost 1Gb today.
Next to that the User Interface has changed so much that it still takes time to get used to the position of buttons. Why? Why would one change the UI so much after years? Never thought of users getting confused? Did someone shove his ideas down the throat of all?
I call upon the programmers of FF, Chrome and Adobe to fix the problems! For the mean time i wont use FF as my main browser anymore. Sad but true, a once genius browser has gone bonkers. Wish i never ever had switched to the new ones
(updated: march 30)
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