Jul 26

Firefox v Chrome

  

Browsers – we use them so often, some people think they ARE the internet. (Mind you, it seems a lot of people think the WWW is the entirety of the internet, so we shouldn’t be too surprised.)

I’ve been a Firefox user forever, maybe longer. I was using Netscape while it was in beta. Oh, I had a short dalliance with Maxthon – the groups feature was awesome – but it’s been Netscape/FF forever.

But just recently, the memory leak bug – that Mozilla doesn’t seem to interested in fixing – has been driving me nuts. You open up a few tabs, close a few tabs, open up a few more tabs – in a couple of hours FF is using 2GB RAM, which isn’t cool, even with 8GB.

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