[ale] OT: Firefox just keeps reloading GMail

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 02/24/2010 09:25 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> On the topic of Firefox, has anyone dropped it for Chrome? I love
> Firefox except for the fact that it is DOG SLOW. Sure, I have some
> add-ons installed, but I'm starting to think that if I have to speed
> up Firefox by removing the add-ons, I might as well drop it and go
> with Chrome since it's supposed to be so fast. Heck, even IE would be
> an option at that point since it's faster on Windows.

I have.  Though the reason that I switched from Firefox wasn't 
speed---it was the multiprocess structure around which Chrome is so 
wonderfully designed.  I absolutely *love* that when plugins crash, the 
browser doesn't go with it, or that if one Web site makes a tab crash, 
the rest of the browser stays up and running.

I'm not saying I love plugins that crash (*cough*Flash*cough*) nor the 
sites that house crap dependent on those plugins (*cough*O'Reilly 
Safari*cough*).  But the fact that I don't lose all my state and have to 
suffer a browser restart?  Total, absolute win.

The fact that the VM it uses to run JavaScript is significantly faster 
is a good side effect of my decision to use Chrome, though.  The only 
thing that I haven't found a replacement for is the Firefox Web 
Developer extension.

That said, I don't know that I'll switch back even after Firefox adopts 
the multiprocess structure that Chrome has started with.  The UI in 
Chrome is so small and light that Firefox just looks bulky to me.

	--- Mike

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