[mparramon]

I've yet to have one single problem after running Firefox as my main driver for ~3 months. Only 2 webpages have made me quickly open Chrome instead to check them out, and the content wasn't worth engaging for long.

It puzzles me how more programmers don't switch to a real open source browser not controlled by an advertising giant which will use their overwhelming monopolistic force to steer the way browsers work so that it benefits its bottom line.

Vote with your feet, use Firefox.

[account42]

> It puzzles me how more programmers don't switch to a real open source browser not controlled by an advertising giant

Let us know when you find one.

[CamouflagedKiwi]

I used it for many years but ultimately abandoned it because its memory use was just unacceptably high. A couple of windows with 30-40 tabs in each would eat all my laptop's memory - Chromium in a similar setup will sit around 40% used. I don't know what Firefox is doing but it's crazy far off the pace there.

Mozilla should be focusing on fixing things like that and making the browser be good before the barely related campaigning, let alone the whole "we're going to be an advertising business as well" thing.

[zelphirkalt]

Sounds like an extension issue. Firefox by itself uses way way less memory than Chromium-base browsers.

[CamouflagedKiwi]

I had a few extensions, I don't think anything especially unusual. Regardless, Chromium with a few similar extensions (ublock is the most notable) performs far better.

[rswail]

Running latest Firefox on latest MacOS on Intel.

Hundreds of tabs open, memory usage is ~3GB for main process, 2-3GB for isolated content (ie the tabs).

Really not sure what the problem is.

[ksec]

Are you on Linux, Windows or macOS ?

[CamouflagedKiwi]

Linux