I switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox as soon as I was exposed to it in grade school. It wasn't until my highschool years that chrome launched (15 years ago, holy smokes!) and I switched to the shiny new thing. Chrome was so snappy and lightweight in those days, it was a clear winner. Stayed with chrome for the next decade and in that time it slowly morphed from a light-weight, snappy browser into the infamous RAM hog its known for now. In the meantime Firefox seemed to have to have upped their game with a smoother browser experience, and that along with their anti-tracker & privacy ethos made me switch back to Firefox within the past couple years.
I dont know why I'm getting a fuzzy feeling all of a sudden... am I weird for feeling nostalgic because of an internet browser?
I switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox as soon as I was exposed to it in grade school. It wasn't until my highschool years that chrome launched (15 years ago, holy smokes!) and I switched to the shiny new thing. Chrome was so snappy and lightweight in those days, it was a clear winner. Stayed with chrome for the next decade and in that time it slowly morphed from a light-weight, snappy browser into the infamous RAM hog its known for now. In the meantime Firefox seemed to have to have upped their game with a smoother browser experience, and that along with their anti-tracker & privacy ethos made me switch back to Firefox within the past couple years.
I dont know why I'm getting a fuzzy feeling all of a sudden... am I weird for feeling nostalgic because of an internet browser?
Fucking based, OP. Chromium users blown tf out
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Firefox is brilliant, but I like Librewolf more.
It's interesting you mention this. I was looking at this and GNU IceCat recently out of curiosity.
What do you like more about it?
Just look at https://privacytests.org
I'll check it out, thanks for sharing! I had a friend who's been using Brave for privacy reasons, I'll show them this, too.
I use EDGE.... On Linux.... Via Flathub...
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I use it at work and all my bookmarks and extensions are synced to it.
Makes sense! Honestly it's not that bad. And since it's in a Flatpak you can tune it up a bit easier than otherwise.
well the only choice is chromium or firefox
I love Firefox, but it's memory management leaves some to be desired lol
Agreed. It eats RAM like it’s nothing. I’m downgrading from 32GB to 16GB soon and I’m really worried.
Moving up from DDR4 to DDR5?
I bet you'll be alright! My laptop has 16GB DDR4 and Firefox works just peachy.
I wonder if Firefox has a method of giving up RAM when it doesn't need to hold onto it anymore?
Nope, still DDR4 lol. My old RAM had some weird leaking issue where it caused my games to crash and I kept getting pissed off teammates and comp bans.
I installed the new RAM Corsair sent me with the old one for now, so now I’m running 4x8gb. Seems to be fine for now.