Looks like Firefox has taken over the mantle of shittest browser. Never thought I'd see the day.

Why? What happened now?

Can you elaborate?

Internet Explorer hasn't died yet

Also, elaborate please

🤖 EXTERM....

🤖 ELABORATE! ELABORATE!

Yes! Fucking yes! What exactly though?

Maybe because it's a RAM hog. I know unused ram is a wasteful but come on , save memory for other applications.

@mr-user except its not a hog at all compared to chrome.

You better run

@uyouthe to where?

@iiii I forgot chrome. Browser these day are like a person who don't respect your personal boundary.

@mr-user Applications cannot reserve memory for themselves, the OS controls it. The increased memory usage of browsers is because we have gotten better in caching stuff.

I definitely like it less since quantum came out, but it's still my browser of choice on the desktop.

I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox ... I really like it.

I was like yeah, I agree, it would be the shittiest browser if it wasn't for every other browser being shittier. But I'm intrigued... OP, elaborate.

@100110111 OP's history seems to be just empty one liners without elaboration.

@theuser

But the developer decide whether to cache it or not right?

@100110111 lol, true. Firefox is not ideal,but it is the best we have so far.

@mr-user Yes they can and they normally should. A browser using 2 or 3 GB out of say 16GB memory is perfectly fine as we normally use browsers a lot these days.

I ditched FF in favour of Vivaldi long ago because Mozilla has been waging war on their users for years - and then wondered why their market share plummeted.

Mozilla's latest asshole move is FF for Android: breaking a lot of extensions, removing about:config, and making it deliberately difficult to add a custom search engine.

That's what you get with FF "updates", which was the reason why I mistrusted Mozilla just as much as Microsoft with Windows "updates".

I love vivaldi. Its tab handling is miles better than any other browser, period. The UI element that appears when you hit F2 is absolutely inspired, and it floors me that no other browsers adopted that, in the years since vivaldi introduced it.

There was something about firefox that vivaldi doesn't do, but I don't remember it now. I do know that cell selection in tables is much better in firefox than in any other browser, and that's something I use frequently for work.

@bahua add-ons. Vivaldi does not do add-ons as well as Firefox does.

@iiii Vivaldi runs the same Chrome-extensions as FF, and FF has axed the old powerful add-ons anyway.

@Fast-Nop even though Firefox has a similar engine, the add-ons themselves are just better.

@iiii Hard to believe, given that they are the same technology.

@Fast-Nop same tech, different library. 🤷‍♂️

@iiii Also hard to believe because extensions are published first for Chrome, and that's because Mozilla has succeeded in driving away its users.

@Fast-Nop well, that may be hard for you, but I've tried to use chrome as my main browser and each time it was just lacking something I have in Firefox.

Firefox's extensions have been severely crippled by forcing them to be as weak as chrome's(and of course vivaldi's). There are lots of great extensions that stopped being great when they were forced to convert from xul to web.

I definitely liked firefox more in 2015, but even now it's still my daily driver.