I grudgingly went from Firefox to Chrome some years ago and every time I try to go back, I remember why I abandoned it
(https://th3core.com/talk/hardware-technology/why-i-am-still-not-a-firefox-user/?action=dlattach;attach=2958;image)
That's on a profile with no plugins/extensions/etc.
It's basically constant once I start getting out into the wide web (I use it for Sitecore edits and for AdWords/GA/GSC for various reasons not related to disliking Chrome, but more about segmenting logins)
Chrome is only a little better. It may not crash, but it still requires 4 process and 250MB per tab.
FF is still a memory hog, but at least in Linux I don't experience the crashes the way I did with FF in Windows.
Quote from: I, Brian on March 01, 2019, 07:08:43 PM
Chrome is only a little better. It may not crash, but it still requires 4 process and 250MB per tab.
Yes, you need a LOT of memory to run Chrome. That is one advantage of FF. It doesn't stay running long enough to hog all my RAM
I had the opposite issue: According to my log files, Chrome was phoning home to google literally every minute causing my Mac to crash...even if I wasn't using it.
I'll never use it again.
I was Firefox only for many years, but crash after crash after crash led me to Chrome some years ago, because I couldn't do IE
Now there are so many more alternatives and even IE/Edge is a good browser by the standards of some years ago. But my latest experiment in switching back to FF was a fail.
I suppose I could/should try some of the alternatives. But given that our household is already logging into Gmail, Google Voice, Adwords, GA, GSC and I recently bought a Chromebook, the data the Chrome browser sends it the least of my worries.