[Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

[Rich Braun]

Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> I find that Chrome and FF4 are equally fast, and equally bloated.  And so is
> IE9.  They're all good and bad in the same ways.

For me the comparison between the two is stark.  I wonder what accounts for
your different perception?  Do I routinely open more tabs (typically I will
have about 7 to 10 windows, each with 2 to 8 tabs)?  At the moment, I have 18
processes running Chrome--that's the total number of tabs across my windows. 
Sometimes I might have twice that many.  Some people prefer
bookmarking/closing/reopening windows; I prefer to keep the tab handy for all
sites that I routinely come back to in the course of a day. Having quick
access to references/tools is essential as a sw developer or sysadmin, and my
current project embraces both roles.

The slowdown occurs over a period of minutes or hours after opening my usual
set of windows; I can make it go away for that short amount of time by killing
and restarting the browser, but a day later Firefox is /always/ painfully slow
-- thrashing through memory (not disk) in some inefficient piece of core code.

-rich