Firefox is back
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 9:31AM I used to be a huge supporter of Firefox years ago, it was a great browser and had great extensibility. Chrome wasn't around, Safari was clunky and Opera didn't have addon support. It was a simpler time of a maximum of 2Meg download on ADSL.
Most browsers back then and Firefox was a breath of fresh air but over time and increasing memory and processor count in computers, it started to become unstable and as it ran as one process for all your tabs (I genrally have around 150 tabs at any one time) - it would crash.
With the release of Google Chrome, I quickly jumped ship and found it a lot better. With each tab running as a separate process (~150 little processes as appose to 1 big one) the stability improved and the speed picked up as not all tabs were in the foreground - only a couple so the rest lay dormant.
I now find myself in the position that Chrome is having so many little issues (crashing wise) I have actually returned to Firefox and it is a lot faster than Chrome is now. Im still surprised to see after all this time too that it stills runs as one process and its not making use of any excess processing power yet it still starts up faster and handles flash a lot better.
So what are peoples favorite browsers and why - comment below.
Reader Comments (2)
I used to use firefox, but I jumped ship to Safari as they were the first people I saw advertising private browsing... Which I needed... because of reasons. Safari *looks* nice but I think I still prefer firefox in some ways, like the fact that you can use fullscreen, and pimp your browser out to be gold-plated and fur-lined. These are the important things to look for in a browser, people.
I.E. 6 > Everything else