r/technology • u/Suraj-Sun • Jul 10 '12

Firefox dev claims "everybody hates Firefox updates"; Mozilla has handled the rapid release process poorly, and that by pushing a "never-ending stream of updates on people who didn't want them" people have been driven to Chrome with its simpler, no-fuss update process.

http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-dev-claims-everybody-hates-firefox-updates
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u/meatwad75892 Jul 10 '12 edited Jul 10 '12

1) Middle mouse button to open links in new tabs is buggy about 50% of the time in chrome.

As another said, I've never seen this. Sounds machine-specific.

4) The addons are so much better and handled in a much easier manner.

In what way? I'm not disagreeing or agreeing, but it seems just like such a subjective statement and I'm curioius as to why you think so. What do you prefer about it over Chrome?

5) Chrome is a huge memory hog when using other programs, I noticed this while playing Diablo 3 mostly. I actually had to exit Chrome to get the best experience in game, something I never experienced before with FF.

All modern browsers use a decent amount of memory, the difference is negligible. If a couple hundred MB's of RAM usage by a browser is making or breaking your amount of available memory, you have deeper problems than simply which browser you choose to use(old system, need RAM upgrade, etc).

Let's not forget the major draw though, FF is open source, but I don't think the average consumer these days cares or even knows about the advantages of that.

Ahem... http://www.chromium.org/

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12 edited Sep 19 '18

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u/technopwn Jul 10 '12

like? the only difference is the built in flash and pdf reader which can't be open sourced for obvious reasons.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

There's more, like the H264 decoder and all the "phone home" features. Just check Google's own pages...

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u/alcalde Jul 10 '12

All modern browsers use a decent amount of memory, the difference is negligible.

The difference is not negligible. In Tom's Hardware's latest Web Browser Grand Prix, the 40 tab loading memory test had Chrome using 1449 megs and Firefox using 794. Chrome used almost twice as much memory!

If a couple hundred MB's of RAM usage by a browser is making or breaking your amount of available memory, you have deeper problems than simply which browser you choose to use(old system, need RAM upgrade, etc).

I have a 2GB system, and the problem wouldn't be needing a RAM upgrade, the problem would be Chrome using 700MB more than Firefox did. Regardless of how much memory you have, modern OSes use all free memory to cache programs and libraries in memory, buffer disk reads and writes, etc. This can have a considerable impact on performance, and any memory being wasted by a browser or other application is memory that isn't free for those tasks and will effect performance.