What browser are you using?

[TC_Halogen]

Firefox here, but I don't have a real issue with Chrome in terms of performance. However, I really dislike the fact that Chrome doesn't seem to ask you if you want to confirm closing the program, causing you to lose data. Not sure if they've fixed that.

I'll also be staying with Firefox because of how the ABP add-on works as opposed to Chrome.

[sticklydude]

Originally Posted by Fission

i'd rather use proprietary products than open source ones that aren't nearly as good. also, anybody complaining about web pages not loading properly in chrome, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...enadd?hl=en-US


synthetic benchmarks don't mean much, they never have; i'm talking about real-world usage and experience. from my experience, firefox memory usage just kept getting worse and worse as i used it more, where chrome has been more stable on that front. also from my experience, chrome has rendered web pages so much faster than firefox has on my hardware.

in regards to memory usage with multiple tabs open, that only matters if you have a lot of tabs open. firefox is less stable because it uses threads rather than processes, so i'd rather use more memory than have every tab crash when one of them crashes

These tests are on Firefox 22, which was released June 25, 2013.
I understand if you feel that way about the benchmarks, but you rather having to use more memory is completely subjective and is sometimes not an option to others with lower system specs. Design choice. Doesn't make it less good.

also from my experience, firefox has rendered web pages on par with chrome on my hardware.

Just because something doesn't appeal to you doesn't make it not "nearly as good"

Originally Posted by Fission

firefox is less stable because it uses threads rather than processes

I'm curious about this since i've never heard this before. If you can elaborate on this, that'd be great.

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firefox has always been mah choice
always will be

[AlexDest]

chrome all the way

[Fission]

Originally Posted by sticklydude

These tests are on Firefox 22, which was released June 25, 2013.
I understand if you feel that way about the benchmarks, but you rather having to use more memory is completely subjective and is sometimes not an option to others with lower system specs. Design choice. Doesn't make it less good.

fair point. i just have a hunch that Firefox is leaking memory somewhere, unless this changed

Originally Posted by sticklydude

also from my experience, firefox has rendered web pages on par with chrome on my hardware.

Just because something doesn't appeal to you doesn't make it not "nearly as good"

i haven't used firefox 22, so this is probably a result of some bias. chrome has been dominant on the performance front for so long that i didn't expect firefox to be able to catch up

Originally Posted by sticklydude

I'm curious about this since i've never heard this before. If you can elaborate on this, that'd be great.

sure

operating system construct elaboration:
processes are instances of executables that are in execution or waiting for cpu time. they have overhead associated with them (i won't elaborate on this since it won't be understood unless you are a programmer) that control how the process behaves. this overhead is much greater than that of threads, which i will explain next. chrome, as you said, creates new processes for every tab, so the memory usage is inherently higher.

threads reside in a parent process and have the lifetime that a parent process does. they also share the same global memory of the parent process and with their sibling threads. this means that if a thread's global memory is corrupted, it effects the parent process and thereby all of the sibling threads. the advantage of threads is that they are lighter weight than processes, since most of the structural overhead associated with them is taken care of by the parent process. firefox creates new threads for every tab, so it uses less memory.

this leads me to my original statement that chrome is more stable than firefox because tabs are isolated from other tabs, so they are effectively sandboxed and cannot corrupt other processes and thus, more stable

[noname219]

60% Firefox (I'm used to it)
25% Safari (because Mac)
10% Chrome (haven't really used all the features but it works well everytime I use it)
5% Explorer (Grab Pro works only with it...)

Voted Safari because I was on it at the time.

[DotKritic]

Since I quit working at Target, I'm back to FF full-time. If I had to access an employee page when I worked at Target, I had to use IE.

[James May]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Mode_Browser

haters gonna hate

[Razor]

chrome #1

plus i love the way it syncs my bookmarks to my phone's web browser (inlove)

[Izzy]

Unused ram is wasted ram. This goes for your computer as a whole. Your computer will perform the same at 5% usage as 99% usage. Assuming it never hits 100% and thrashes the HDD.

Chrome uses more ram for good reason and would use less if you had less ram.

[DragonIIDX]

I've always used Internet Explorer, but I've been using Firefox for a few months now, and it's great. Not going back.

[Pseudo Enigma]

every time I read this thread title



what bowser are you using

[SpoOkyMagician]

Firefox has never let me down. Used to use Interweb Exploder... -_-' I have yet to try other browsers though. Can't comment on them sorry.

~ SpoOkyMagician

[Crashfan3]

Firefox, version 12.0 because fuck updating.

This new "rapid release" thing irritates me. At this rate we'll be at version 100 before I graduate college. Would it kill you to use a "x.1, x.1.0.1, etc"?!

[Izzy]

Mozilla really doesn't understand the concept of versioning with hotfixes, updates, major updates and new releases.