No worries, you're not the only one. :) Totally different projects with bit messy history when they were forked. People still think uBlock and uBlock Origin are same.

To the browser-talk:
Turned from Firefox to Seamonkey because Australis-switcharoo hassle. Seamonkey does have it own quirks but switch was quite easy. And Add-on converter has been big help to bring all my needed extensions to it. :)

I used to use Firefox, I think it was nerfed by google or something to run like a piece of shit so everyone changes to Chrome. Now I'm using Chrome, and it's a memory hog piece of shit. I've got three windows open, it's using 7 processes.

Also when did the internet start telling you what to do, install an update, install and update, incredibly important update to microsoft word, acrobat reader UPDATE! Install it please, can you install it please... INSTALL IT, YOU F**K!

Soon you won't be able to browse the internet because you'll be too busy installing updates for every turd program in the universe. News: The internet crashes because every f**kin pointless program in world is updating every computer on the planet, sorry.

Firefox.

Start a new profile. Install only your requisite add-ins, and DEFINITELY check plugins to make sure they're off. Even those you use (flash, silverlight), make sure they're set to "ask before using".

Yes, still Firefox. It gets worse and worse with each iteration, but it's still the best. The margin by which it's the best has narrowed (as they kill what extensions can and can't do, and the stupid can't-override signed extension requirement...), but it is still the top.

EDIT: Adblock Pro, while still being better than running without it, can be a performance hog compared to others (eg, uBlock Origin). I still use ABP because I prefer its UI, but recognize that even your ad-remover can add some cpu use.

With <span class="bold">Classic Theme Restorer</span> and <span class="bold">Classic Toolbar Buttons</span>, and a skin like <span class="bold">Vista Basic</span>, you can easily customize the interface to look like the good old Firefox, and disable useless features at the same time.

I use Chrome and Firefox interchangeably. Haven't experienced your issues all that much, but I do run on 16 GB RAM (probably common for gaming rigs, but less common on more casual machines).

As others have posted, check your plugins. They can be real ressource hogs at times. Try disabling some and see if your experience improves.

I don't follow browser development as closely as I follow the development of the web in general, but a co-worker of mine keeps mentioning how the new rendering engine that Mozilla is working on will revolutionize what browsers can render in terms of css animation and will pretty much force the competition to adopt similar drastic optimisation to remain relevant.

I recommend you keep an eye out for future versions of Firefox even if you opt not to use it right now.

EDIT:

Ah, there is the Wikipedia link for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(layout_engine)

What is your hardware and operating system? Those errors are symptoms of other things or profile corruption.

What's the exact error message you get?

Vivaldi the true Opera successor (current version of Opera is a slow lump of shite)

Nice! I did not know this. If this fixes the problems I have with Firefox, I'll gladly go back.

Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
AMD A8-5600K
Radeon HD 7850 1GB
8 GB DDR3 RAM
Samsung 840 SSD

Now it works. It was probably related to the internet connection too (from my work)... but then Opera worked (albeit sometimes unresponsive) through the same connection.

There's one odd thing with Firefox though, this was already on earlier version too: if I uncheck "Remember logins for sites" from the security options, it comes back checked when I launch Firefox again (which is the default). The browser seems to forget that setting between sessions for some reason. Or then my employer somehow enforces it back, but I have no idea for what reason. Earlier it would stay unchecked.

I see. Have you tried https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings ? I was having some errors and that fixed them for me. But reinstalling a bunch of add-ons caused the problems again (leading to another refresh to fix).

It saves bookmarks but resets add-ons and any settings.

thanks :)
this one looks quite cool

i thought that a good browser is like healthy fast food

Sure. Its like Firefox LTS with more security and pretty much same amount of supported plugins.

I found out that memory consumption issue by Firefox was solely due to inefficient adblockers. It still eats a lot of RAM, but at least within understandable and stable release guarantees it has a minimum of memory leaks.


Try Linux in a VM.