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[–] Rogue_General 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox as soon as I was exposed to it in grade school. It wasn't until my highschool years that chrome launched (15 years ago, holy smokes!) and I switched to the shiny new thing. Chrome was so snappy and lightweight in those days, it was a clear winner. Stayed with chrome for the next decade and in that time it slowly morphed from a light-weight, snappy browser into the infamous RAM hog its known for now. In the meantime Firefox seemed to have to have upped their game with a smoother browser experience, and that along with their anti-tracker & privacy ethos made me switch back to Firefox within the past couple years.

I dont know why I'm getting a fuzzy feeling all of a sudden... am I weird for feeling nostalgic because of an internet browser?

[–] Otakeb 6 points 1 year ago

Fucking based, OP. Chromium users blown tf out

[–] danteog 4 points 1 year ago
[–] zephyr 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is brilliant, but I like Librewolf more.

[–] zaemz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's interesting you mention this. I was looking at this and GNU IceCat recently out of curiosity.

What do you like more about it?

[–] zephyr 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • No Firefox telemetry and BS (Pocket, homepage feeds, etc.)
  • More in active development
  • Out-of-the-box privacy settings

Just look at https://privacytests.org

[–] zaemz 1 points 1 year ago

I'll check it out, thanks for sharing! I had a friend who's been using Brave for privacy reasons, I'll show them this, too.

[–] GameWiz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use EDGE.... On Linux.... Via Flathub...

[–] zaemz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] GameWiz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use it at work and all my bookmarks and extensions are synced to it.

[–] zaemz 1 points 1 year ago

Makes sense! Honestly it's not that bad. And since it's in a Flatpak you can tune it up a bit easier than otherwise.

[–] bappity 1 points 1 year ago

well the only choice is chromium or firefox

[–] candyman337 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love Firefox, but it's memory management leaves some to be desired lol

[–] LightProtector 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. It eats RAM like it’s nothing. I’m downgrading from 32GB to 16GB soon and I’m really worried.

[–] zaemz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Moving up from DDR4 to DDR5?

I bet you'll be alright! My laptop has 16GB DDR4 and Firefox works just peachy.

I wonder if Firefox has a method of giving up RAM when it doesn't need to hold onto it anymore?

[–] LightProtector 2 points 1 year ago

Nope, still DDR4 lol. My old RAM had some weird leaking issue where it caused my games to crash and I kept getting pissed off teammates and comp bans.

I installed the new RAM Corsair sent me with the old one for now, so now I’m running 4x8gb. Seems to be fine for now.