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[903]

firefox is cool,i use it very often.But sometimes i had to change to IE because some security software,such as bank account protection software is only run with IE.:(

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I think the autopager extension is necessary !

[RichardGv]

I think the autopager extension is necessary !

I was a user of AutoPager for half a year until I stopped using it. When I'm running a process that uses most of my CPU time (usually this happens when I'm compiling some stuff), AutoPager uses extra resources and often causes Firefox to freeze. My preferred way to automatically load the next page is to only load it when I press a hotkey, however this seems impossible without editing every single rule in AutoPager. And the configuration page of AutoPager is a total mess.
And I hate the stupid IE-only bank "security plugins" in China. :)

[zeoed]

Firefox all the way.
Reasons:
Customizable
Open Source
Utterly Awesome

[HiddenKnowledge]

I like that they keep tabs in one process, actually.

[RichardGv]

I like that they keep tabs in one process, actually.

Process isolation is developed largely due to security measures: More limitations can be set on individual tab processes to minimize the damage of an attack, in case there's a security hole in the browser. It reduces the risk of a total browser crash or freeze caused by one specific tab, thus making the browser more stable, as well. (Another benefit is you can view how much memory a tab uses. Not particularly valuable a feature, practically, but it satisfies our curiosity.) I don't see a reason why it could be a bad thing.

And process isolation is in Firefox roadmap already, since a year ago. Sooner or later, you won't be able to have all tabs in a single process. :)
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2009-0...processes/
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Featur..._Isolation
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

[HiddenKnowledge]

From: this site.

I appreciate the goal here, improvements in the following areas: performance, stability, security. However, I’m still not sold on this design. I realize that this has become the trendy new thing now that Google is doing it (yes, I know there was talk of this well before Chrome came out but it wasn’t until it was released that this really got a high priority). However, I feel like they had to do this initially because they were so crash happy.

I feel like the overhead of an entire process (startup time and memory usage) would suggest that this model would actually have the opposite effect on the performance. This is probably more true on Windows than other platforms. I’m imagining an average computer user that is viewing the task manager trying to understand why their machine is running so slowly and seeing a bunch of Firefox processes running. I suppose it would be neat if there was an easy way to identity which process was driving a particular page so a user could find pages causing trouble, but this probably wouldn’t be easy to determine from task manager. It also seems like this problem (identifying troublesome pages) could be tackled in the current architecture.

Regarding stability, Firefox crashes on me so rarely (maybe twice this past year). Session restore works fine for recovering from this.

Anyways, I’m sure all of this has been thought out previously and I imagine tons of performance metrics will be collected to prove me wrong so I’m probably just overly cautious. That being said, are there any plans on maintaining the current single process model once this feature is implemented? :)

That is pretty much my reason. :)

[kxjakkk]

I used to always use FireFox, but then I tried Chrome one day and fell in love. I use Chrome all the time now, it's so simple and fast, perfect for my needs.

[ThePro]

Well, i use Firefox on my Laptop, and i use chrome on my slower PC

However, i love opera, but i can't live with add-ons/extensions, the day opera adds add-ons i'll switch back to opera

[HiddenKnowledge]

However, i love opera, but i can't live with add-ons/extensions, the day opera adds add-ons i'll switch back to opera

Eehm, you don't need to use add-ons/extensions.. :S

[leonhitchens]

Firefox i would have to say has an upperhand right now with speed and addons, and ie9 is llooking good so far