I think calling people stupid because they use a different browser from you is taking things a little too far mate. I switched from Firefox to Chrome a couple of months ago and never looked back. It's fast, sleek, secure, and the UI gets out of my way. And have you even used Firefox? Now THAT piece of bloatware is a memory hog.
In the end though it's just a browser, and everyone has their preferences.
Couple things here. Ah yeah I use Firefox every day and it's no where near as bloated as Chrome. If you read this thread you would know I use Firefox so why ask if I have? I don' think there is a browser I haven't used and I currently use 6 different ones on three different OS.
I never said people that use Chrome are stupid. I said the stupid people I know use it and like it. I did say that Chrome users are less tech types and that's true. I also said Chrome was a dumb browser because of it's simplicity and total lack of anything and that is also true. If the truth hurts oh well.
Your another of these people saying Chrome is not a hog. How can you say that? What are you basing that on. Have you compared RAM usage, disk space, disk activity etc? I keep hearing all these Chrome fans make this claim but there is no backing it up. So why not be the first to back it up?
I've been using Firefox ever since I became Tech savvy (2 years back?)... Yeah, I agree people go for Chrome just because they think its fast. How wrong.
Anyway, I keep Chrome for HTML5 Emergencies. I use Firefox 99.9999% of the time
I think calling people stupid because they use a different browser from you is taking things a little too far mate. I switched from Firefox to Chrome a couple of months ago and never looked back. It's fast, sleek, secure, and the UI gets out of my way. And have you even used Firefox? Now THAT piece of bloatware is a memory hog.
In the end though it's just a browser, and everyone has their preferences.
we are not in the day and age where we have to worry about absolute optimization of variables
No. However, we are in the day and age where we have to worry about a program that just can't release memory.
Try it : Open 10 tabs, with at least one Flash video, and then close all but two or three. Then look at FF's memory usage. Close it, open it again (it will re-open the tabs), and look at its memory usage.
I just did that ; with four tabs open, it went from 460 MB to 84 simply by restarting it.