• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

I Like Kill Nerds

The blog of Australian Front End / Aurelia Javascript Developer & brewing aficionado Dwayne Charrington // Aurelia.io Core Team member.

  • Home
  • Aurelia 2
  • Aurelia 1
  • About
  • Aurelia 2 Consulting/Freelance Work

So Long, Farewell, Firefox

General · May 11, 2012

Today I kicked my nasty Firefox habit for good. At first it was great, opening tabs of your favourite sites and debugging code with Firebug, blocking ads with AdBlock and all was well. Then once everyone was hooked, Firefox became a drunken abusive browser drunk off of its rising popularity and usage. What was once a, “how was your day sir” type of relationship then turned into a, “fuck you I’ll load that website in a few seconds, give me more ram and CPU” relationship.

I didn’t think I could do it. Chrome has always looked nice to me, but I could never bring myself to actually try a new browser, the age old problem of being stuck in an abusive relationship and not wanting to leave because you still love the person, in this case a web browser called Firefox.

What actually drove me to make the switch is the memory leak issues. Firefox for a very long time has had a nasty habit of taking ram and not giving it back, mostly due to plugins leaking memory like a bucket with holes in the bottom. I know a fix has just been submitted that will be out soon, bit it’s a little too late to make amends. In fact just recently my Firefox has been using after a few hours 3.5gb of ram that continues to climb.

Thanks for making other browsers innovate and take note of web standards, but you’ve become the old station wagon and Chrome is the new shiny sports coupe with the all leather interior.

Dwayne

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

2 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Alicia
Alicia
10 years ago

I had a hard time letting go too. I left Firefox for the very same reason. I love Chrome now. I think Firefox is clunky now when I have to test in it. My poor computer with only 2G of RAM struggled and I got tired of having to shut it down to work.

0
Dwayne
Dwayne
Author
10 years ago

@Alicia

You really notice the speed differences once you switch to Chrome. I’m impressed and I think I’m used to the Chrome developer tools now, they’re just as good as Firebug although I never used to a fan. Firefox have a long way to go if they want to keep up in the browser race.

0

Primary Sidebar

Popular

  • Testing Event Listeners In Jest (Without Using A Library)
  • How To Get The Hash of A File In Node.js
  • How To Mock uuid In Jest
  • Which Neural DSP Archetype Plugins Should You Buy?
  • How to Copy Files Using the Copy Webpack Plugin (without copying the entire folder structure)
  • Removing A Character From The Start/End of a String In Javascript
  • How To Convert FormData To JSON Object
  • How To Correctly Use Semantic HTML5 <article>, <main> and <section> Tags
  • Wild Natural Deodorant Review
  • How to Use Neural DSP Archetype Plugins With the Quad Cortex

Recent Comments

  • Thebe on How to Remove the My Sites Menu From the WordPress Admin Bar
  • Maccas worker jn the 2000s on Dear McDonald’s: bring back the Warm Cookie Sundae, you cowards
  • Anamika Singh on Testing Event Listeners In Jest (Without Using A Library)
  • Stefan on A List of WordPress Gutenberg Core Blocks
  • pandammonium on A List of WordPress Gutenberg Core Blocks

Copyright © 2022 · Dwayne Charrington · Log in

wpDiscuz