Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
by rryan on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:27AM
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I love that Firefox exists and Quantum is an amazing step forward, but Firefox still regularly runs away with gigabytes of RAM and hung worker processes. I have no problem with long-lived Chrome sessions but I need to restart Firefox ~daily. It's not bad memories of 10-years ago.
Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
by Monotonic on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:57AM
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I've been using Firefox as my daily browser at work, home, and on my mobile devices, and I've literally never had issues with Firefox taking up too much RAM. Chrome on the other hand was always one of the main culprits when my computer(s) would start to slow down.
This is the problem with anecdotal evidence; everybody's subjective experiences are slightly different and further colored with their own biases, so you can never get hard facts out of it.
Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
by mrguyorama on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:55PM
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And yet Chrome consuming huge amounts of RAM is an actual meme
Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
by pier25 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:14PM
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Same for me.
I've been using FF for a couple of months and I get huge random CPU spikes on my MBP that go away once I restart it. It works fine on my iMac and Windows tower though albeit JS execution seems slower (I mostly work on front end stuff).
It also seems to consume more battery on Android than Chrome although I admit I've never made any serious testing.
Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
by marriedWpt on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:26PM
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The difference is extremely noticable. So yes.
I can open up 2 tabs and Firefox is still loading the page.
Ahh, the good ol' "Firefox is too slow for me to consider it" statement. Is there any evidence that Firefox is slower then Chrome other than old lingering memories of Firefox being slow ten years ago?
I have used both Firefox and Chrome and I can't subjectively tell that one is significantly faster or slower than the other. To be fair, I only have a handful of extensions and rarely have more than ten tabs open at a time, so my use case may be atypical.