Archive for November 25, 2008

What makes Firefox suck?

November 25, 2008 at 4:07 pm · Filed under tech

I reliably have the following experience. I’ve experienced this on multiple Windows machines and in Linux and with 2.* and 3.*

  • Adopt Firefox rather than previous/default browser
  • be happy
  • Between 1 and several months pass
  • Things deteriorate to the point where it sucks. Opening or closing tabs takes forever. Browsing between pages (forward/back - same tab) with large amounts of content (which previously would render with pipelined speedy hotness) is painful. Actually *starting* the browser also takes forever (in the past I used to say how I’d originally switched to Firefox because I could literally start it, browse to page X, and have page X render all in the time it would take IE to render page X).

So what’s the deal? I’m guessing I’ve hit some data limit and now my form MRU, or history, or some random cache is now rearing a very ugly unoptimized critical path head. Or something? This is so not the future.

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