What has happened to Web browsers?

Chrome + adblock + umatrix is the way to go now I like that chrome has an inbuilt flash because adobe flashplayer is now being exploited
 
Firefox is horridly bloated but you can sill remove most of the extraneous features easily and they've been back to reasonable performance lately and atleast moving even if slowly towards proper threading, etc.

Everything else seems to be trying too hard lately.
 
Shame really as I find chrome the new IE. On my work laptop it also churns up all the RAM and grinds the machine to a halt so you have to close the program to get resources back on track again.

This to me is really poor no matter how much you champion chrome - its far from 'the best'.
 
I think you have to elaborate how you want to use a browser to really be able to compare experiences - in waterfox as we speak I have 352 (vertical) tabs many unloaded which correspond to research on various work/personal topics, some of these could be bookmarked, I remember the chronology of how the url's in these tabs were discovered and have not had the time to note the pertinant information in the tabs.
Very few of the tabs have any videos so flash performance is largely irrelevant to me.
If I want to access videos I typically do that in another disposable firefox session which I can shutdown and re-start quickly when the memory consumption becomes bloated which in my experience occurs in most browsers where the garbage collection is poor for video plugins.
I have about 4 firefox browser profiles I use regularly one for sites where security is important eg financial stuff, one where I am logged into a google account (I do not know if IE or chrome permit mutiple profiles ?)

Firefox can reliably manage this many tabs in 3-4Gb , neither IE nor chrome can imhop - so horses for courses
 
There is simply no replacement for Firefox (official 64 bit) for my uses. FireFTP is the most convenient and fastest FTP client I have ever used and has one unique feature I've yet to see in another free FTP client. That and a bunch of other extensions that aren't available on other browsers.

As well as Firefox Sync, which works brilliantly between phone, PC, car and tablet.

My Firefox on PC looks like the old skool firefox, not the new theme or anything like that. I use Classic Theme restorer to tailor the look to how it /should/ be, not how Mozilla defaults it to.

I have not found Firefox slow at all on my phone though. It is slow on the Win10 tablet, but that is a Linx 10 dual core tablet with 2GB RAM...
 
I use Firefox at home and tend to run chrome on the flash sites or random page where google harmonises its features better. I dont really use tons of pulgins so cannot comment too much on that.
 
Please tell me whether edge will be any better in windows 10 ? is it hopeless ?

In win7, for some sites where firefox renderer fails I use Explorer 11, below is memory/cpu use,
for explorer with ~20 tabs, and 2 water fox's with ~200 and ~50 tabs.

Principal stupidities (insert profanity) of Explorer for me
  • Tabs are each a separate explorer process no sharing (massive memory use)
  • Tabs never completely unloaded so see below drip of cpu use on each (and if you even move mouse across tab name, without selecting it is completely reloaded)
  • no vertical tab display option (much better use of screen real-estate)


chrome for me was equally pathetic for memory use (and per other thread difficult to uninstall)

I think I would pay someone for a good browser

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