Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by natecavanaugh on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:40AM
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Thank you for link to TGS, I have similar browsing patterns, and I do notice chrome closing in on 5gb of RAM, slowing down alot of other stuff. Hopefully this will help :)
Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by dspillett on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:13AM
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I've only been using it for a few weeks, but so far it has proven to be a wonderful tool. I've even been moved to donate a little.
Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by jimbofisher1 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:56AM
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You may have just changed my life with The Great Suspender...
It wasn't really a mass exodus, but a gradual wax & wane over time (with more moves FF->C over the long term than C->FF).
In development fields the count is complicated by people who regularly use both, but prefer one.
> I typically have 2-8 tabs open
I tend to have many open[1], over several windows on different desktops. I use open tabs more than I use bookmarks! Every once in a while I go through the open tabs and close those I've not touched in a while that I don;t expect to touch any time soon (obviously the need to have it open has passed). I currently use Chrome more then FF, and here The Great Suspender[1] is a godsend for saving RAM (and to a lesser extent CPU time) Chrome would otherwise consume.
[1] TGS lists my current use on this machine as "22 windows, 148 tabs"