[firasd]

This trend of Firefox increasingly bundling more services and features is an interesting paradox considering that Firefox started as a quiet project to make a slimmed down, no frills browser in comparison to the main Mozilla browser.

I’ve recently resumed using Firefox as my main browser partly driven by support of the project but also because Chrome was taking too much RAM and causing performance issues. Of course, when Chrome first came out it was a very slimmed down browser that used a lot less RAM compared to Firefox. Everything moves in cycles…

[cpeterso]

Phoenix/Firefox was Mozilla's own lightweight alternative to SeaMonkey. Then Chrome was the lightweight alternative to a memory-hogging Firefox. Now Chrome is seen as sluggish and a memory hog. Where do we go next?

[firasd]

I suppose, as far as the web platform is concerned, we aren't really going to replace HTML/CSS/JS so increasing the speed and memory management of javascript rendering is the clear way forward, e.g. with Servo https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/

[wvenable]

Servo, when it's done. And from there, who knows!

[cpeterso]

btw, browser.html is a Servo experiment with "future UI paradigms":

https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html/

[Touche]

It says right on the page that it doesn't use Servo.

[Manishearth]

https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell does though

[frik]

I would like to switch to servo-shell sooner than later. Though there is no Win32/64 build of Servo.

See Servo github issue "Get Servo working on Windows": https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1908

[cwyers]

Microsoft Edge?

[zanny]

There are a lot of alternative browsers, though almost all of them use Blink.

[hackmiester]

...back to Seamonkey? :D

[steve-howard]

I use Firefox because Tree Style Tab[1] is such a useful interface for me that I'm willing to put up with the annoyances. I had the same thought about the new widgets popping up, though. There is really no reason at all that Pocket can't have been shipped as an extension, at worst a pre-installed one (but why exactly was that necessary to begin with?).

I want a browser that does what I want, supports the add-ons I prefer, and stays out of the way. Hopefully Firefox doesn't continue to make me remove "features" with every update.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...