Christophe B. Jul 28, 2023
If you're still using Chrome for performance reasons:
- Firefox is now faster than Chrome out-of-the-box
- Firefox uses less memory than Chrome
- Contrary to Chrome, Firefox does not restrict Ad blockers, which will make your browsing experience much faster (and safer).
Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 29, 2023

@bladecoder

- Firefox uses less memory than ChromeIs this true? I switched to firefox a year ago, it seems to be constantly guzzling all my ram. So much so that sometimes it crashes and my video card glitches out and all three screens go blank (one goes magenta) for like 10 seconds.

It's been a major nuisance. Can't seem to run anything else with firefox open.
Maybe a reinstall will fix that.

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@Hawkwinter @bladecoder that’s sounds more like a problem with your machine then with a single app
Jul 31, 2023 at 11:03amIvory for iOS
Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 31, 2023
@coffeekomrade @bladecoder

Hmm. Maybe so. It only seems to happen when I'm running firefox and then try to run photoshop or blender or some other piece of resource-intensive software at the same time, and I didn't notice it happening back before I switched from Brave. I was thinking FF had an annoying memory leak or something, and have been mitigating it by trying to limit the number of tabs I have open (I can get carried away and have a couple hundred open sometimes if I'm not vigilant), and also restarting Firefox frequently.

But it could also be a system issue of some kind. I don't really want to format and reinstall. But I might if the issue persists and reinstalling firefox doesn't help.