That may be true with a small session, or a minimal number of open tabs. Yet, with a large session|many tabs, FF becomes unresponsive regularly (CPU Spikes) and there's almost nothing you can do to make it release RAM, except for closing the browser. FF's CPU usage also spikes on launch 30-50% on a quad core with a large session, even when only a single tab of a given window is loaded on launch. The CPU usage also spikes whenever you manage tabs (move|close).

Compared to almost any other Browser FF lags badly in terms of resource management, including IE11, and Blink-based browsers (Chrome, Opera, etc). It also doesn't seem to matter what branch of FF you use, they all are horrible at resource management (FF Nightly 32bit or 64, WaterFox/64bit, FF Dev 32bit (previously Aurora).

I really doubt the shrinking user-base has much if anything to do with Australis either, it's pretty easy to add back the Status Bar, Addon Bar, or any number of bars that you want.

Although personally, I wonder why the hell they (Mozilla) don't distribute some of their Devs or money ($120+ Million for FF Development in 2012) to some of the MAJOR Addon authors and help them get on board with Electrolysis (e10s). I imagine FF's user-base will shrink even further before (or if) Mozilla ever sees the light.

McDonalds has a Happy Meal. I think you must be mistaken.

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Of course, here on slashdot that string will get reamed (6 characters removed), as not only does slashdot not do Unicode or UTF-8, it can't even handle upper-ansi characters properly either.

Logitech's G700s is decent, but I think I prefer the MX518/G400 -- primarily due to the better button layout and buttons that are easier to press in multiple ways - as opposed to G700s' top-body buttons which can only be activated via "claw-holding" or a very specific way to lay your hand so your index finger can depress that button. Which is also due in part to the idiotic placement of the fly-wheel-scroll-release button --- as opposed to it being depressed (instead of raised) or moved to just below the scroll wheel --- where it wouldn't intefere with the (only) top-body button.

The rest of the buttons, even the side thumb ones have far too much resistance and "sharp-angles". Many of the G700s issues can be "gotten used to", and you might not even notice most of the problems if you never owned the MX518.

I don't see any superiority in FF at all, beyond allowing customization. It's memory utilization is absolutely insane: 300MB just to open an empty browser --- although interestingly that memory utilization doesn't increase as you open tabs (initially) - so it looks like it requests more memory than it needs, except it doesn't freaking release the memory. Period. Full stop. Close windows, close tabs, does NOT matter. You have to close the whole damn browser.

Firefox is my primary browser. It doesn't hold a candle to Opera 12.17, but FF is pretty much the only (current) browser going for power-users... at least until we see more of what Vivaldi has up their sleeve.

You mean like how Bing and Yahoo (powered by Bing, but not the same results) promote their own "versions" of things ahead of other search results?

Search for CSS/HTML via Yahoo (the default in FF now) - you will get a slew of "MDN" (mozilla developer network) results, top-listed. Or how Bing promotes Bing Videos|Images instead of Google's?

We're pretty much talking about Google top-listing ONE of their "own" results. That hardly affects any business, nor is it a credibility hit. Their own service/info is still relevant to the search at hand.

I think we'd all be happier if Google would just stop ignoring our search terms.

Un-bee-leeev-able. Firefox is so stable, and memory efficient.

Oh wait...

1 failed PSU fan, crashed and burned an 8088 board.
3 Monitors CGA (12+ years before it gave up it's magic smoke), SVGA (2+ years), LCD (8 years)
4 Harddrives: (40MB - bootsector virus, 600MB failed to power up,
--- 160GB random write failures until a bootsector fail, and a 1.5TB WD Green with almost no usage 1 PSU that wouldn't post - out of the box.
2 Keyboard failures.
3 Graphic Card failures from Sapphire and XFX --- attempting MFG replacement was a joke. I no longer buy from those two.
3 Motherboard failures, and 3 Mouse failures (though I don't know if a puppy chewing through a cord should count...)

No other hardware failures, before they were naturally retired anyways.
I voted for Graphics Card, as I thought it was a tie between GPU/MOBO, but it looks like it should of been Harddrives like the majority...

I think most of the GPU failures were due to crap-fans, and a case of bad caps.

So put instructions on how to create a Car Battery and inverter to power the thing.

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Sis vous plait.

If you are going to use Opera 10, you might as well use the final 10.64 -- it was around 10.60 or so that the dev's finally fixed all (?) the regressions and flat out bugs that were endured during the horrible Opera "Next" (10.2x-10.5x) transition.

Anyone that classifies such a large group of people --- anyone buying a $400 computer as a "retard" isn't much above a retard themselves.

I fully expect my "$400" laptop to last at least 4-5 years. Will soon remove the optical-drive for a SSD, and add an 8GB ram-stick (for 16).

Of course it's AMD across the board; maybe the OP is referring to $400 Intel machines... they're not worth much beyond decent battery life --- I only get 2-3 hrs, but its pretty rare (for me, at least) to be away from any kind of power-source for more than a few hours.

Take a look at the GFCF diet, and ignore the anti-vac info/groups. One of our friend's children was diagnosed at ~4yo - he went from "normal" to completely introverted non-responsive almost overnight. Since then, they have done normal socialization (lots of sports) and the GFCF diet. If you didn't know their child was Autistic, you would probably be hard-pressed to glean that on you own.

Maybe, if the lawsuits could use RIAA-style pricing for the fine: $150,000 per fake bottle sold.

As is though, when have you seen a "class-action" lawsuit exceed 10's of Millions? How many million bottles of fake-contents do you think have been sold?

To eventually fix itself, the fine would need to exceed the profits. That never happens.