I'm not, but should I be? Haven't kept up with any Google exploits or otherwise.
It's true. I said the same thing.Passive aggressive reply aside, is this true?
Firefox always has been and remains the best at having hundreds of tabs at once, in both ability to maintain performance and UI options (some from add-ons) for displaying all those tabs (I prefer vertical tabs, personally). Modern Firefox does not load tabs until you access them, which saves a lot of memory / performance.I am the type to have dozens of tabs open at once, so knowing which browser chugs less under that circumstance is a big deal.
Firefox always has been and remains the best at having hundreds of tabs at once,
Does Vivaldi work with all the neogaf extensions chrome has? As well as tampermonkey scripts?
Yes. It works a lot better with tampermonkey than Opera and is much lighter on system resources than chrome.
I am the type to have dozens of tabs open at once, so knowing which browser chugs less under that circumstance is a big deal.
I've got a Firefox profile with 1691 tabs. [...]
As you would expect, Firefox handled this profile quite poorly for a long time. I got used to multi-minute startup time, waiting 15-30 seconds for tabs from external apps to show up, and all manner of non-responsive behavio(u)r.
And then, quite recently, everything changed.
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Try this (from an old Firefox thread):Regardless of personal preference, is there a way for me to have the font rendering of Chrome in Firefox Nightly?
Here is what I did to get correct looking fonts (exactly the same as chrome for me) in FF4:
about:config in the address bar
gfx.direct2d.disabled to True.
And make sure that gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled is set to False (should be by default)
Did the trick for me, and I didn't lose hardware accelerated webgl.
I use Opera but I'm giving Vivaldi a try next.I use Vivaldi.
Edge and Chrome
Hold CTRL and use the mouse wheel to zoom
Vivaldi is the only real browser for me right now. It does just about everything I need out of the box.
Now if only they could fix that persistent bug, that has been there since the beginning, where mouse gestures will think that you're operating on a tab that is in the background or even closed entirely...
just install the lastpass extension from the chrome web store.I installed Vivaldi per the recommendations in this thread.
So far it seems to load webpages faster and has a lot of useful features right out of the gate.
But how do I get Lastpass to work with it? Also, how do I have my bookmarks displayed at the top like with Firefox?
For different reasons:
Privacy: Firefox
For syncing all your shit and search: Google Chrome
For not using any add ons: Edge.
Just switched from Chrome to Opera and aside from a couple of quirks (not sure it's the browser but sometimes I right click/hit back) it's pretty swish. Love having a free VPN built in for watching US stuff and the only add on I used was an ad-blocker (the in built one is in the address bar and you can whitelist sites pretty easily).
The only issue of note is when I watch 4OD (this happened in Chrome too) on my second screen and play games on my primary screen they run like shit (Overwatch dropped to an unstable framerate/around 30fps), running 4OD in Firefox doesn't do this (Any ideas why?)
These past two years Firefox has been going through some of the biggest architectural changes in its history, and just recently, performance has been skyrocketing. Speed gains will culminate with Firefox 57, out in a month or two, which is incredibly fast but will break compatibility with previous add-ons, so there will be an adjustment period.
You can see the speed for yourself in Firefox Nightly, which is up to FF58.
That said, Firefox is like Windows: your user profile collects cruft over time which can lead to lower performance and weird quirks. I like to start a fresh profile every year or two to keep it running happily.
[Windows only] I exclusively run portable versions which keep everything in one folder. Much easier to manage.