Why I am still not a Firefox user

[ergophobe]

I grudgingly went from Firefox to Chrome some years ago and every time I try to go back, I remember why I abandoned it



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)

[I, Brian]

Chrome is only a little better. It may not crash, but it still requires 4 process and 250MB per tab.

[littleman]

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.

[ergophobe]

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

[grnidone]

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. 

[ergophobe]

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.