Comment When it was Dial-up, in Europe & the UK (Score 1) 495
Most of the people I knew from Finland, UK, Norway, were pretty jealous of our unlimited phone service.
UserCSS, broken
UserScript (Greasemonkey), broken
LastPass, broken
TreeStyleTabs, mostly broken
RequestPolicy - and every other extension of its ilk, completely borked.
The only thing it appears to do, is make it "seem like" FF is responsive, except it still takes just as long to load a large session. Except all the tabs just say "New Tab" for ages, until they actually get their title.
Now the one thing that e10s (Electrolysis) CAN do, is close a window without locking up every FF window for an extended period of time.
So FF seems like it is responsive, but that's just a sham. It just isn't "not responding" during the time while it loads a large session. I have tabs loaded in the background, so only the single tab in a given window needs to actually be loaded, yet it still takes 5-10 minutes to load a large session (restore their title, favicon, and tab position). WTF.
Mozilla expenses for software development in 2012 was almost $150,000,000. --- does that sound like "small development team" to you?
[DIR] Meego/ 01-Nov-2011 12:46
[DIR] WeTab/ 21-Mar-2011 14:26
[DIR] Win7/ 21-Mar-2011 14:23
[DIR] android/ 14-Feb-2011 06:18
[DIR] beos/ 27-Feb-2004 14:12
[DIR] cdk/ 11-May-2011 09:13
[DIR] custom/ 20-Oct-2010 15:16
[DIR] emulators/ 10-Aug-2012 12:31
[DIR] epoc/ 04-Jul-2001 03:34
[DIR] extras/ 28-Oct-2002 13:21
[DIR] info/ 14-Jan-2002 22:00
[DIR] linux/ 15-May-2014 08:56
[DIR] mac/ 15-May-2014 09:00
[DIR] nokia/ 24-Jun-2003 10:50
[DIR] os2/ 21-Oct-2002 13:01
[DIR] panasonic/ 22-Mar-2004 14:13
[DIR] psion/ 14-Feb-2003 12:21
[DIR] qnx/ 08-Nov-2002 10:27
[DIR] samsung/ 22-Mar-2004 14:13
[DIR] sdlbream/ 29-Oct-2012 16:41
[DIR] sendo/ 09-Sep-2004 10:51
[DIR] series60/ 15-Jun-2009 07:01
[DIR] siemens/ 23-Sep-2003 09:15
[DIR] sonyericsson/ 07-Jun-2004 09:28
[DIR] source/ 03-Sep-2013 13:18
[DIR] symbian/ 20-Oct-2008 07:29
[DIR] tvemulator/ 14-Dec-2011 22:04
[DIR] unix/ 06-Feb-2013 09:37
[DIR] win/ 15-May-2014 08:57
[DIR] winmobile/ 15-Mar-2010 20:24
[DIR] zinfo/ 31-Aug-2009 13:20
Opera1217_en_Setup.exe ---------- 10,046 KB
Opera1217_en_Setup_x64.exe --- 11,327 KB
--- Then a few versions back, it wasn't much larger either, and basically had a WebServer built-in.
For some unknown reason Chrome/Blink requires ~35MB, and FireFox ~50MB.
When I first started using Opera in the late 90's, it was ~3.5MB, Mozilla with a Mail Client was over 25MB.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!