Not too relevant, but Firefox has gotten significantly slower in my computer in the past few versions, to the point that I will most likely switch to Chrome again. I barely have any extensions and it's never been slower than what I have now.
I've felt the same, especially with the developer tools, but I started using Firefox developer edition, and it seems much, much faster, so I'm sure improvements are coming.
Thank you for the tip. I installed it and it does indeed seem faster. I suppose the plugin compatibility is not too bad.
EDIT: Seemms like my lovely vimperator doesn't work too well.
Completely agree with this. The difference in resources used by Firefox 30 compared to Firefox 40 is just staggering. A netbook that used to run versions of Firefox 30 and below just fine now bogs down so much in newer versions of Firefox that the netbook is regularly left unusable for minutes at a time. It’s gotten so bad that I try to avoid opening Firefox as much as possible now and just use qutebrowser¹ instead. It’s extremely liberating to be able to open a browser and not have to wait a minute before being able to type anything in the address bar.
I do remember reading about qutebrowser; in fact, I did try it around three or four months ago. Might give it again for a couple of weeks and see how much I like it. Thank you for the tip.
