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**RichardGv** · 07-27-2012, 12:26 AM,

(07-26-2012, 06:40 PM)MyDigitalpoint Wrote: More than progressively minded company is a pulp which only goal is take over Microsoft when it comes to monopolies.

And naturally, there is a reason to be afraid, but people will not understand it until it's too late and they have turned into unpaid automatons at Google's service, rather than getting Google serving people.

I have not removed all Google related stuff from my sites because since the beginning I'm not easy to convince of their good will with the candy they have been given away for free, so I have limited my interaction with Google to let them come to crawl my site, and using their email and search engine services for my queries, a service that is actually somewhat mediocre but still the best among the other search engines.

Exactly, Oracle, Microsoft, all these companies were once small and friendly.

(07-26-2012, 07:08 PM)OhioTom76 Wrote: I used to love Firefox, but I've had it with the ongoing memory leaks that they've never solved. My browser was crashing multiple times a day consuming several gigs of memory. They provide no reasonable means to pinpoint which extensions might be causing it, and expect you to uninstall them one at a time - um, no I'm not spending several hours doing that. Chrome has all the extension that Firefox has these days anyhow, plus you don't have to keep rebooting your browser.

Firefox exposes more probabilities for extensions developers, extensions could integrate better with the browser and the system, and being much more flexible. So, most popular Firefox extensions already have their Chrome ports, yet many deeply customizing extensions, NoScript, extensions that modify the appearance of the application totally like location bar enhancement extensions, could not be ported:
http://dafizilla.wordpress.com/2010/06/1...sions-api/

The another side of the coin is extension developers have more responsibilities to make sure their extensions are safe, and don't do memory leaks. Unfortunately, quite some of them haven't done the job well. After MemShrink project Firefox itself is hardly doing memory leaks, and the currently in-development Firefox 15 provided great improvement in "fixing" the memory leaks of extensions: (This page also provided much explanations of Firefox's memory leaking issues.)
https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/201...-on-leaks/