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So chrome makes all my PC's just hang. I would stay with chrome but I keep having to start new identities to stop it form hanging and this lasts about a week. it's getting old.
I tried Edge, but it actually doesn't work on some sites, it does not allow detailed cookie control. For example - one site failed my password they told me I needed to delete my cookies - now in 2017 we are used to being able to search in chrome and find the cookies for that site and delete them only, otherwise things get boring. also the auto form fill sucks, you can't see your saved passwords, ad blocking software is crummy.
Firefox? I use this on Linux but find it a bit slow.
Isn't there something configurable, blazing fast and good at privacy?
Fix your Chrome. There's obviously something wrong as that's not normal behaviour
It is dude, it is well documented. It hogs resource after a while and the only way to fix it is to start a new chrome identity. I think the fixing is down to Google.
Firefox Quantum (FF v57) is in beta and launches in November - promises to be 2x as fast as FF v56.
Couldn't believe the noise coming out of my laptop when I used Chrome the other day - wtf is going on>check resources>jesus what's chrome up to>closes chrome>fans silence.
Edit: [url= https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/channel/desktop/#beta ]Ooh Quantum beta is out [/url]
Chrome does seem to struggle a bit if I have any more than ~15 tabs open - which isn't unusual when I'm working.
Not seen any slow down related to my identity though - that sounds odd.
Chrome is a bit of a resource hog (IE and Edge aren't really any better) but a reboot solves that for a couple of days (I frequently have 30+ tabs open and multiple windows though so not a typical user, I work in IT so rely on Google searches a lot for my job :p ). I find it fine on my home PC though.
I used to use Firefox as my main browser (on a Mac) but there was a memory leak and after a while (in the order of a week or so) it would use up all resources and the whole machine would be slow and I'd need to restart the browser. Not had that with Chrome.
Have both Chrome and Firefox running at work and don't have any problem, this is on Kubuntu Linux.
Apparently my suggestion breached the forum rules despite Mods openly stating on here that it doesn’t.....
never a problem with chrome on work win 7 machine and home win 10 machine.
just works... not overly helpful I know, but is there something else in yuor set up that might be causing this?
I use Chrome without any problems. Try roboform. It is a good auto fill app.
Just had a play with the beta of the new Firefox and it is very fast.
Tip: in Chrome you can press Shift+Escape to get the Task Manager which will tell you how much memory and CPU each tab and extension is using. Useful when it is running slow.
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(you can also get the same thing by going to menu->More Tools...->Task manager)
Went back to Firefox recently, enjoying it.
Does anyone know what Firefox is like with resource usage? Chrome is ridiculous in the amount of RAM it'll eat with relatively trivial tabs open once you have a lot of em. The GPU process can also get a bit out of hand IME too.
You can also contact Chrome support and log the problem. I did a while ago and they were really helpful. Gave me a link to a Beta to try, which had the issue fixed. Little while later the issue was fixed in the usual release updates.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95315?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=7439544
I like Opera.
But then, I used to like WE.
Opera is actually the only browser that works with every site I use for work.
Cookie control is a bit of a pain with Edge, but other than that it works on all the sites I ever use and faster than Chrome, less bloated. Improving all the time, and now Microsoft are doing versions for iOS and Android.
I heard this one's quite good.
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Linux Mint user. If you like firefox - Pale moon, if you like Chrome - SRware Iron.
I've been enjoying Vivaldi for the last year having become sick of chrome and firefox. It behaves like a work browser rather than a play browser.
[url= https://vivaldi.com/ ]https://vivaldi.com/[/url]
Works how I think a browser should work rather than how google think I should browse and lots of the more useful features provided by extensions in chrome are baked in. Plus you can use chrome extensions with it if you need to.
I have spent the last few weeks using edge, it fundamentally sucks. I do really hate it. I am trying vivaldi next..
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New Firefox is out, Quantum or v57.
Wow, tis fast, too early to see if there are any drawbacks other than some of the extensions haven't been updated yet.
I would also recommend palemoon if you are looking for a lightweight browser. Palemoon is forked from one of the older releases of firefox. My initial impression is that it seems like it is less bloated than some of the other options available.