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Why do people complain that apps are actually using system RAM.
It's pointless having it all empty.
It's pointless having it all empty.
is firefox the new internet explorer?
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When Firefox is using 1.5GB+ it becomes very lethargic to use. I've usually got 40GB+ RAM free but certainly wouldn't be happy with Firefox using half of that.
I think the main problem causing Firefox crashes is Flash, I noticed it crashed more often when I was on Youtube (before FF supported MSE) and Twitch. Moved over to Chrome and found it far more stable, probably because of PPAPI vs NPAPI.
I've been using Firefox since 3.6 and I remember it being a revelation from IE, now... not so any more.
FF needs to ditch flash and move to html5 pronto. Nobody uses the crappy flash animations any more. Flash is used now for flash video (youtube). Youtube fully supports html5 so I don't know why firefox doesn't adapt.
Some companies just choke when they get moderately successful. Netscape got a battering from IE/Windows and then they went sideways and created Mozilla. Which usurped IE. FF - an offshoot of Mozilla became the most popular browsers after a long time and then gets a battering from Chrome.
Now some users are even using IE as it's been rebuilt from ground up and performs faster than ff.
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I remember people saying how hard you fail if you didn't use FF. now it seems to be all about chrome. I'm wondering who is going to be next.
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Going against the grane here but I found chrome to have got progressively worse. One of my plugins kept tripping over so installed firefox and it works great!
I use chrome as I am so used to it but tbh I would think it is the new IE judging by its popularity. Might give Opera another dabble, none of them seem to be outstanding these days.
I use chrome as I am so used to it but tbh I would think it is the new IE judging by its popularity. Might give Opera another dabble, none of them seem to be outstanding these days.
It mostly depends on what the site uses - if the site is using flash content with no other content path there isn't much that can be done on the firefox end (other than just not display anything) - youtube is now pushing HTML5 as the primary content path and if your using a recent version of FF then youtube content should now be rendered with HTML5 not flash.
EDIT: Another issue with firefox - I had it on my laptop a few days ago where I got a sudden burst of sound like a modem dialing then lost all sound (system wide) until I closed firefox (at which point it immediately starts working again) - thought nothing of it but just had it happen twice in a row on my desktop in the last hour :S
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Hmm, strange. I have zero problems with it even with a ridiculous amount of tabs open (3 windows with more tabs than I can count)
Only using about 500mb ram.
Theres clearly something going on but I've no idea what. I'm running uBlock and Ghostery to block ads etc so maybe that has something to do with it?
http://tinypic.com/r/6ozwpt/8
Only using about 500mb ram.
Theres clearly something going on but I've no idea what. I'm running uBlock and Ghostery to block ads etc so maybe that has something to do with it?
http://tinypic.com/r/6ozwpt/8
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Omg guys it is ABP lol, I've had problems with memory usage for months. Just removed it and it's dropped massively....
What is this one? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
9.4.0 seems to be the latest. https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/releases
Is there even such a thing as a decent web browser these days, I think they are all pretty terrible in there own way. Several years Opera was the go to browser, then for a long time Firefox was (currently using because little to no other choice), I tried Chrome cannot get into it, Opera is now based on Chrome so that's a no go, choices these days are pretty terrible in my opinion.
Maybe if Firefox didn't screw itself over with hundreds of needless updates and changes over the past couple of years it would still be regarded as one of the best browsers. The constant changes are terrible, lack of addon compatiblity, broken and stupid changes, Firefox became its own enemy and basically its own demise.
Maybe if Firefox didn't screw itself over with hundreds of needless updates and changes over the past couple of years it would still be regarded as one of the best browsers. The constant changes are terrible, lack of addon compatiblity, broken and stupid changes, Firefox became its own enemy and basically its own demise.
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After reading this thread I thought I'd give FF a go, having not used it in a few years.
I find I actually rather like it. Might give FF a go on the Z3 I just bought too.
I find I actually rather like it. Might give FF a go on the Z3 I just bought too.
There's two ublocks, ublock origin from the original creator, and ublock, which the original creator handed over to the new team for further development. Origin is basically complete and now focuses on maintenance updates, while the other ublock will introduce features requested by other users to better compete against other ad blocking extensions. The core coding is still the same. It's up to you which one you want.
Personally I stuck with Origin as I felt it was enough for my needs. I get about 200mb RAM usage overall with Firefox, but that's because I have a few other addons.
I tried a clean profile but I still got the hanging problem sometimes with Flash content. Flash is probably the main thing holding back Firefox at the moment in terms of stability.
I also wish they made some features like Firefox Hello as an addon instead, don't see any reason for it to be part of the browser.
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I am using ublock origin with chrome, I rather like it. You have to disable it on some sites as it will cripple the scripts or features some websites need to move onto the next phase.
Mine works just fine, always has done BUT newest versions have been better (snappier) when loading large media content pages like gif threads, video threads on forums.
Other than that, everything is just beautiful and fast with an average cold start time of less than 1 second. That's with 20 extensions installed.
Other than that, everything is just beautiful and fast with an average cold start time of less than 1 second. That's with 20 extensions installed.
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No problems at all with FF here. I have a bunch of browsers installed on my desktop so that I can test my website on all of them. FF is still the best for me.