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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by gdfasfklshg4 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:48AM (#18599355)
> Mozilla has the hardcore geeks on their side. Even during the V30 to v50 transition period where Firefox was, at the time, clearly an inferior product, we kept using it to support it for the sheer ideal of it. We hoped it would come back from it, and it happened: Firefox is now a fast, lean and fantastic browser again.

I use Firefox. I always have. My experience is totally different to yours. Before FF57 it was a single process and it ran nicely on a 4GB machine with a 2009 Intel Atom processor. Afterwards it became much hungrier for memory and processor. I had to buy a new computer. (I tried Chrome of course but it is hungrier.)

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by sametmax on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:13AM (#18599529)
I said "during the V30 to v50 transition period where Firefox was, at the time, clearly an inferior product", compared to the competition, not anterior version of itself.

The later is a more complicated matter, as it was 10 years ago, with different expectations, hardware, user base and web.

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by gdfasfklshg4 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @09:06AM (#18608243)
And I pointed out that prior to v57 FF was a clearly superior product to the competition for me. For me FF v52 was also superior to v57. Sadly v52 is now out of support and the result is that I had to get a new computer.

For me the order of utility is FF pre v57 > FF post v57 > Chromium based browsers.

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by seba_dos1 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:53AM (#18601143)
The multiprocess architecture makes it run faster on newer machines, but slower on older ones. Have you tried disabling it (limiting to one process) though?
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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by Endy on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:47PM (#18604853)
They've disabled that setting.
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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by seba_dos1 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:26PM (#18605258)
Not sure if I can disable electrolysis altogether, but I sure still can limit it to one content process, even from the GUI.
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