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Chrome messing with my uBlock Origin extension, disabling it and uninstalling it when all this started, was the last straw. I promptly made the jump to Floorp/Firefox and even though I was scared for a long time to switch, it was all good and have zero regrets. I'm very happy I ditched Chrome.
I held out until the first ad got through adblock (about a year ago, I think?). Switched the same day. Should have done it a lot sooner. I thought it would be a whole thing, but I was set up i a few minutes.
Yep! Same experience with setting everything up.
But ... why?
I'm honestly asking here. What's so scary about using a different browser? I've got (let me count...) at least 6 different browsers installed on my current machine, switching between them for different tasks each of them is better at.
It's not like switching from Windows to Linux, where you actually have to say goodbye to Windows (maybe) in order to make the switch. You can easily install Chrome and Firefox, using whichever one suits you at the moment. So what's so scary about switching?
15 years of use, everything synced with Chrome and I wanted to also decouple browser dependency for password management say the same time. Not knowing if Firefox is up for the task. In many ways.
But everything is fine. I don't feel I made a compromise.
Because Firefox is still the same legendary memory hog it's always been
If you keep 1000 tabs open, maybe. Otherwise, it's not too bad.
More like a hundred.
Guess it also depends on your system. I pretty routinely keep several hundred firefox tabs open with no issues ... but I've got 80GB of RAM to go around, so it's fine.
16GB. I put off upgrading for wayyy too long, and now look where I am
You savage! I feel like I'm living crazy when I have 10 open!
The Firefox memory hog issue is worse if you use Windows
...I do. 😔
Do you all just leave your browser open and running all the time?
When not gaming, yeah
Huh.