• Rogue_General
    7·
    3 years ago

    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?

  • Otakeb
    71·
    3 years ago

    Fucking based, OP. Chromium users blown tf out

  • zephyr
    3·
    3 years ago

    Firefox is brilliant, but I like Librewolf more.

    • Zaemz
      1·
      3 years ago

      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?

        • Zaemz
          1·
          3 years ago

          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.

      • GameWiz
        2·
        3 years ago

        I use it at work and all my bookmarks and extensions are synced to it.

        • Zaemz
          1·
          3 years ago

          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.

  • Bappity
    1·
    3 years ago

    well the only choice is chromium or firefox

  • candyman337
    32·
    3 years ago

    I love Firefox, but it’s memory management leaves some to be desired lol

    • LightProtector
      3·
      3 years ago

      Agreed. It eats RAM like it’s nothing. I’m downgrading from 32GB to 16GB soon and I’m really worried.

      • Zaemz
        2·
        3 years ago

        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?

        • LightProtectorEnglish
          2·
          3 years ago

          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.