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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by sgift on Saturday December 16, 2017 @08:14PM (#15943325)
Yes. It's my second browser (and was my main browser until I switched to FF Nightly in the summer). And no, it isn't faster - at least not for me. And it hogs memory as if there's no other software running on my PC. I'm really happy that I can use FF again instead.
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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by fastball on Saturday December 16, 2017 @08:35PM (#15943419) 

  it hogs my memory if there's no other software running
What exactly is wrong with that? Do you understand how RAM works on a computer?

Maybe your system is different, but for me, FF 57+ uses much more CPU than Chrome, and unlike RAM, that's a statistic that actually affects something in a meaningful way (increased power consumption).

If you're worried about Chrome using RAM when nothing else is, you might be fetishizing the concept of free RAM.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by sgift on Saturday December 16, 2017 @09:09PM (#15943559)
I wrote as if, not if - i.e. I run other programs that could use the RAM if Chrome wouldn't take it.
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