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by marvwhere 4841 days ago
1) Firefox is the new IE7/8 - i having more and more issues with standard css settings, which are f* up in the ff, but are nice and shiny in all other brothers (yes even in ie)

2) "I honestly believe Mozilla is committed to freedom and privacy on the web." - haha thats funny :D you know about chromium right? :D its free, you can code on it too if you want too, sure there are might be 1-2 functions in the chrome, which belongs to google, but all in all you can know the code. and google did there learnings after the first versions where they sending stuff to there servers.

and in the end, all browser are logging the same shit, where are we clicking, what are we doing, where we enter this and that. why? because they want to make there money too, and collect a big big big database, which they can sell to other companies. and learn stuff out of it. i guess on this view all brothers are the same crap

3) memory management - yes its true chrome get stuck more and more often, and eating the memory, and it is annoying. but for me, firefox still is worse. everytime i start firefox for debugging some website or whatever, i'm totally pissed, because this stupid software still needs like forever for the initialised start. and when you keep it open for 2 days, you done :D in my opinion even photoshop has a better memory management then firefox.

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i hope for the chrome too, that the switch from opera to webkit, give them a little ass kick, because that is that what all browser companies needed, an ass kick.

first there was an IE everybody used it, so why should they update it? then there was the firefox, ie was screwed, everybody used ff now, so why should they update it? then there was the chrome, ff was screwed, everybody used chrome now, so why should they update it?

and everybody took there lesson out of it, IE is getting better, FF starts updating there browser after sitting on 3.6 like forever... and thats ok, people now having like 3-4 good brothers and can choose.

4 comments

Oh god. "there", "they're" and "their" are completely different words with different meanings.

http://iampaddy.com/spell/

> in my opinion even photoshop has a better memory management then firefox.

Too far, buddy.

Photoshop actually lets you cap its RAM and virtual memory usage. Does any browser?
Do you really think capping memory usage comes without costs?
Opera does
The second part to 2) sounds a little paranoid, can you back it up?

I switched from Opera (then known as the lightweight) to Chrome (then known as the chugging oversized beast) because of Opera's (sudden in v11 ish) memory leaks. Hopefully they fix that and I'll switch abck to Opera for the same reasons as OP did for Firefox.

I haven't experienced any memory leaks in the last couple of months.
Firefox is more standards compliant on the CSS front then...any other browser, actually.
Source?
Going through that listing, aside from the -webkit- atill being required for CSS transforms, the current versions of Chrome and Safari are ahead of the current version of Firefox. But it's pretty much the same for all the major browsers across the board.
actually it seems to say FF has 87% support, Chrome 84% support, Safari 83% support, so the parent comment looks correct.
http://caniuse.com/#compare=firefox+21,chrome+27

I'm not sure how they're calculating 87% -- do unknowns count towards supported? It looks like, from that list, that Chrome supports more.

You're comparing the FF "future" release which is not reasonable. There are equivalent versions of Safari and, I suspect, Chrome.