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by karlshea 3922 days ago
I switched to Chrome about 6 months before MemShrink, right around the time everyone from Mozilla kept blaming addons for memory problems and saying there wasn't a problem with Firefox. When the MemShrink project was announced I just laughed.

I've got it installed for development and I have no complaints, but now that I've got Chrome set up for syncing and all that it's just become my default. I'm sure I'll get annoyed at Chrome at some point and switch back.
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nnethercote 3922 days ago
Add-ons were certainly a big part of it. Firefox 15 fixed most of the add-on problems, see here: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/07/19/firefox-15-p...

But there were plenty of other problems fixed too. See https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/category/memshrink/ for lots of details.

With that in mind, in the future perhaps you could think twice before posting snarky comments based on your experiences from five years ago.

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PhantomGremlin 3921 days ago
With that in mind, in the future perhaps you could think twice before posting snarky comments based on your experiences from five years ago.

In a rational universe that would be a reasonable request. Too bad we don't live in a rational universe.

Bad experiences weigh much more heavily on us than good experiences. For example, there is a chain of stores I won't go to, because I bought some inferior products from them over 35 years ago. Is that rational? No. But it is human nature.

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digi_owl 3921 days ago
Never mind that if you want to find out what is hogging the ram, there is about:memory.
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