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God I wish chrome didn't remove manifest v2 meow-tableflip

Here is the list of things that piss me off about firefox:

  • It is dogshit slow
  • It eats up a ludicrous amounts of RAM, which I wasn't expecting since it's one of the main things people make fun of chrome for
  • It crashes constantly
  • It tries to push it's "AI" bullshit on me despite me turning it off on multiple occasions
  • It puts ads on my home page
  • It needs to be relaunched regularly because at some point it becomes too laggy to use. It even stops loading pages altogether
  • "Restore previous session" feature doesn't work half the time so restarting the browser is absolutely terrifying
  • Profile management is a mess

Are there any alternatives? Is Brave any good?

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I installed an extension to automatically unload tabs after a certain period of inactivity and RAM usage is no longer a problem.

Which addon is this? Search engines are unfortunately useless these days, and I just got a thousand auto generated articles about how Firefox has an unload tabs context menu button now.

[–] emdash@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

highly recommend you install this @kleeon@hexbear.net . Its a huge memory saver.

What OS are you on and what other addons are you using? Something definitely odd seems to be going on with your install.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you. This is a nice QoL improvement.