[Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

[cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:15:30AM -0400, Rich Braun wrote:
> Has anyone else gone through this switch?  What steps could have been taken to
> troubleshoot Firefox to avoid having to make this switch?  I basically
> disabled all plugins, flash, Java, everything--and it still took over my whole
> system.  I'm saddened by the collapse of Firefox but maybe it's just me, doing
> something wrong.

Same here, but I'm using Chromium, the unbranded version of Chome.  I
keep Firefox around for the few apps that don't work right in
Chromium, and to use some repetitive form-filling webapps where
hitting the back button in Chromium clears the previous form entries
but Firefox allows their reuse for another submission.

I'm still looking for decent FlashBlock & NoScript replacements,
because sometimes I need Flash.  I often have to "killall
npviewer.bin" to kill the nspluginwrapper-wrapped 32-bit flash plugin 
(libflashplayer.so when not wrapped--but avoid the 64-bit alpha/beta
versions) when it takes 90% of my CPU displaying banner ads and such.

The other thing is sometimes Chromium does take a lot of memory or
CPU.  But because each tab is a process, you can find out which one is
causing it and close it.  Shift-Escape brings up the built-in Task
Manager.