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Comment Browser world problems (Score 1) 113

Browsers can be frustrating. In my experience, _all_ of them have _some_ issues. Currently I use Firefox for "light" browsing and Chrome for media browsing, because I feel that both lack in some areas.

Firefox:
+ Ideologically I'd like to use Firefox only instead of MS browsers and Chrome.
+ Separate search bar instead of an omnibar.
+ Tab opening and closing behaviour (always closing to the next-to-the-right tab is nice).
+ Most accurate URL suggestions based on bookmarks and history.
+ browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground is probably the single-most important reason I use Firefox despite the minus below. I use external RSS and IRC clients, from which I tend to open several links in one go. With MS browsers and Chrome, the freshly opened page comes to the top, and I have to tab back 6 times to open 6 links. With Firefox I can open all of the links in the background without ever being interefered with by the browser window grabbing attention. It's amazing.
- 32 or 64 bit, e10s enabled or not, bogs down a bit with even just 3 or 4 tabs open, and becomes completely crippled when more than one tab with an HTML5 or a Flash stream is open at the same time. I suspect this isn't what most Firefox users experience, but that's irrelevant since it's happening to_me_.
- Used to have very frequent memory leaks, now has occasional memory leaks.

Chrome:
+ Much faster than Firefox on this computer, and stays that way with many tabs open.
+ Doesn't seem to leak memory, certainly not in the way that Firefox does.
- Omnibar.
- URL suggestions.
- No background tabs from external applications.
- Evil.

MS browsers:
+ Pluses? What pluses?
- All of the things.

It grates me every day, that Firefox would be THE ONE for me, if only it would perform a bit better. It's perhaps even a bit ironic, because Palemoon, which is based on an older version of Firefox, is blisteringly fast but has some compatibility issues. If I could have current Firefox with the performance of Palemoon, I would be over the moon, and I'm not even an astronaut.

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