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[GenKiDan]

I think Opera is a nice browser....

 

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Worked some years ago with Opera, had issues with framerate dropping^

 

[Anayomex]

 

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~

 

[Anayomex]

 

[GenKiDan]

Yeah opera has had some need for refinement. They recently switched to chrome engine though. I just find it hard to let go of it, since I really like some of it's basics.

Byes, time to go.

 

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See you Genki

 

[Anayomex]

genkidan

 

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Ana, what browser do you use?

 

[Anayomex]

firefox.............

 

[DreamCa7ch3r]

Hey everyone

 

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hiya Dream

 

[Shinseph]

Firefox has had a memory leak forever. I don't know if they ever fixed it I stopped paying attention when chrome came out.

 

[DreamCa7ch3r]

I just liked how chrome looked better :/

 

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only when my FF is opened for over 24h it lags... till then its memory management here is close to perfection. Takes not very often over 1gb memory (this boy could take 13gb if he wants). Only in FF 27-28 was a bit more lag than before. Now I've updated to 29 and everything works fine since 2 hours, this board is loading a bit faster, I guess they worked on the CSS performance

 

[Anayomex]

well it's a lot better than chrome which consume even more memory.......

 

[Ignis]

I'm one of those people who keep their PC on 24/7, don't turn it off under normal circumstances, and reboot probably once in a month. Similarly, I don't turn off my Internet connection unless I really need to or are forced by circumstances (e.g. a thunderstorm brewing, network disruption, or my ISP being an arse). I also don't close programmes I regularly use, ranging from browser, music player, download manager, notes and IRC, to maintenance tools.

What I'm trying to say here is that my browser doesn't lag just because a certain amount of time has passed. If it does, then something I have open must be the cause. (If you remember, when we just upgraded the forum, we had a fancier navbar that we had to take down because it was poorly coded and would hog down browsers―or at least Firefox―despite making use of HTML5 and not Flash. That's one such case.) Sure, Firefox crashes sometimes, though my personal experience still has me choose it over Chrome and Opera, both of which in my opinion have worse performance overall.

I'm a heavy user with regularly hundreds of tabs open, and my record was having 1300+ tabs open with Firefox back then. Chrome, on the other hand, would start to crap out past 100 tabs and if I left it open for a long time some tabs would almost freeze when revisited. I must, however, note two things: First, I make use of the MemoryFox addon, which greatly reduces memory consumption. When I had the aforementioned 1300+ tabs, Firefox was only consuming about 1.5GB of RAM. Second, I'm still using Firefox 27; I turned off auto-update when Mozilla announced its plans to embed ads on Firefox.

I'm an easily-offended customer who can quickly abandon a product or service just because something doesn't align right with me, and I view Mozilla's change of attitude from being a staunch contributor to the open Web to considering embedding advertisements in their flagship product as a major offence. That said, Firefox(-based browser) is the only browser that meets my needs. I'd considered changing to something based on Chromium that isn't Google Chrome, something like SRWare Iron, but nope―the addons and all that just don't cut it. Similarly, with the stuff I add to my browser, Firefox-based browsers often have compatibility problems (even if just very minor) with some addons.

Ergo, I stick to Firefox, which I still love; I'm just not updating. Also, earlier today, someone mentioned to me how AS slowed down his browser. He's using the latest version of Firefox, I'm sure, and there's no evading the fact that Firefox updates sometimes make it sluggish. Just saying, but if any of you is having a sluggish experience with AS, it may have something to do with the newer version of Firefox, because it's running fine here on 27.

/Two cents

 

[Shinseph]

Chrome does use more memory, that's because it runs a new process for every tab. Because of this chrome has a faster start up and memory release then firefox, which is great for people that are constantly opening and closing tabs. Not at all great for inordinate amounts of tabs though...


Plus, I get to have shiina with me at all times!

 

[♥ Sky]

Speaking as someone who does web development, Chrome is nice, but Firefox is less RAM heavy. However I use Chrome over Firefox as it supports some of the newer HTML and CSS technologies whereas Firefox is still lagging behind slightly. It's also got a better development console and there are lots of other free web development plugins for Chrome which are harder to find on Firefox.

 

[Anayomex]

morning shin, sky

 

[Shinseph]

Morning sky ...your dragon safari sucks, no dragonite!



I'm off for work now. Ta.

 

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[MENTION=2]Ignis[/MENTION]; ._.

A really great post. /sign

You're overdoing it in the private benchmark, maybe the mozilla foundation should give you money for all the information you give them anonymously.

The point with the updating plans on FF by mozilla is completely correct. The most updates made it worse to browse difficult written sites. 29 gives me now a better experience depending on performance atm., my 2 add-ons are working fine with it.

One question: Do you use a SSD? It greatly forces my performance overall, especially while browsing sites with many flash based objects.

 

[Anayomex]

shin

 

[♥ Sky]

Morning sky ...your dragon safari sucks, no dragonite!



I'm off for work now. Ta.

/me boops shin.

 

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Have fun at work Shin