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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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[โ€“] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What are you running in firefox? My firefox currently has 11 tabs open and is only at 1.4gb ram use.

The biggest consumer of my ram right now is discord at 3gb.

[โ€“] kleeon@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

It is down to 7 gigs now. According to firefox task manager - 1 gig for "GPU" process, another gig for "Firefox" process and the rest are mostly google pages - each seems to use around 100 megs on average