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?

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    Christ, I’m typing this on Firefox and it’s only using 2.5gb of ram. And I have 16 tabs! An excessive amount of tabs! What do you have open???

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          14 days ago

          40 hexbear tabs open because every time I want to go back to it I just open a new tab rather than go back to the one I was using before (that would take ~5 seconds more and I no longer have that kinda attention span!)

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      15 days ago

      I have almost 100 tabs open. Most of them are just text - github pages, google search results, news articles, documentation pages. And a couple of youtube videos

      Granted, it is a lot of tabs but I don’t get why rendering some text to the screen should take so much memory

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        14 days ago

        I’m watching 3 different video essays on 3 tabs, and a 4th video on a Baldur’s Gate 3 challenge run. Just watching like 10 mins of each and rotating. Idk why I do this.

        Also a few Hexbear and wiki pages open, and for some reason tvtropes