Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by ultramancool on Friday December 12, 2014 @08:39PM
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Yeah, I think the main benefit of Chrome these days is mainly about UI performance more than anything else. They achieve that extremely well with the process isolation. Firefox is moving in that direction to with their electrolysis project, so it'll be interesting to see where that goes.
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by cbd1984 on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:17PM
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IME, Chrome is slower in terms of UI responsiveness, especially when starting up (massive disk usage) and switching tabs/making new tabs (pegs at least one core of my CPU, whole browser goes catatonic).
Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by singlow on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:34PM
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IME chrome is faster when I have enough RAM. I have a notebook with 16G of memory and Chrome runs great on it- seems quicker than Firefox. But on my workstation I only have 8G and usually have more things fighting for it. When memory is low Chrome gets unusable but Firefox keeps going along at its not-quite-as-fast-as-chrome-with-enough-memory pace.
Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by mrottenkolber on Saturday December 13, 2014 @11:45AM
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16G and chrome runs great on it. What the shit guys.
Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
by mschuster91 on Saturday December 13, 2014 @05:43PM
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Usually chrome's UI stickyness goes away when you either buy more RAM or install a SSD instead of a HDD. Chrome's disk usage is crazy.