<story><title>Fuck It, I&apos;m Going Back to Firefox</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/fuck-it-im-going-back-to-firefox-1685425815</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcoffland</author><text>I regularly have several hundred tabs open in Firefox with no problems. Some people may think this is crazy or messy but I find it very useful for organizing the various projects I&amp;#x27;m working on for different clients and my own personal projects. Tab groups and delayed loading make it all very smooth. Such usage is just not possible with Chrome. I tried to switch to Chrome but couldn&amp;#x27;t find the features I needed and did not wish to change my workflow.&lt;p&gt;Back when Chrome came out Firefox was buggy. Since then it has become much more stable. Chrome is the one that&amp;#x27;s buggy now. One process per tab means that a bug in one tab does not take down the whole browser but it is much better to just fix the bugs and not crash at all.</text></item><item><author>FilterJoe</author><text>The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn&amp;#x27;t launch a new process for each tab.&lt;p&gt;In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I included a section for users who like to keep a lot of tabs open. Even Opera, which uses the same code base as Chrome, does tabs better than Chrome:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filterjoe.com/2015/01/23/best-browsers-2015-which-browser-is-best-for-you/#ManyTabs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.filterjoe.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;best-browsers-2015-which...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>gvb</author><text>I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph &lt;i&gt;...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I&amp;#x27;ve accumulated over the years[...]&lt;/i&gt; I had to stop and say &amp;quot;wait, what?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;To leverage his analogy that it is &lt;i&gt;like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there,&lt;/i&gt; it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for three years and then moving into a new house. Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s clean and new, but &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; is it better and &lt;i&gt;will it stay better?&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zetafunction</author><text>As a Chrome developer, I agree that process-per-tab absolutely should not be a replacement for fixing bugs. However, I think it&amp;#x27;s important to point out that process-per-tab is not just for stability: it&amp;#x27;s also critical for security.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fuck It, I&apos;m Going Back to Firefox</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/fuck-it-im-going-back-to-firefox-1685425815</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcoffland</author><text>I regularly have several hundred tabs open in Firefox with no problems. Some people may think this is crazy or messy but I find it very useful for organizing the various projects I&amp;#x27;m working on for different clients and my own personal projects. Tab groups and delayed loading make it all very smooth. Such usage is just not possible with Chrome. I tried to switch to Chrome but couldn&amp;#x27;t find the features I needed and did not wish to change my workflow.&lt;p&gt;Back when Chrome came out Firefox was buggy. Since then it has become much more stable. Chrome is the one that&amp;#x27;s buggy now. One process per tab means that a bug in one tab does not take down the whole browser but it is much better to just fix the bugs and not crash at all.</text></item><item><author>FilterJoe</author><text>The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn&amp;#x27;t launch a new process for each tab.&lt;p&gt;In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I included a section for users who like to keep a lot of tabs open. Even Opera, which uses the same code base as Chrome, does tabs better than Chrome:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filterjoe.com/2015/01/23/best-browsers-2015-which-browser-is-best-for-you/#ManyTabs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.filterjoe.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;best-browsers-2015-which...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>gvb</author><text>I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph &lt;i&gt;...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I&amp;#x27;ve accumulated over the years[...]&lt;/i&gt; I had to stop and say &amp;quot;wait, what?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;To leverage his analogy that it is &lt;i&gt;like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there,&lt;/i&gt; it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for three years and then moving into a new house. Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s clean and new, but &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; is it better and &lt;i&gt;will it stay better?&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>I do the same thing; it&amp;#x27;s incredibly easy to do with the Tree View Tabs extension.&lt;p&gt;For example, while browsing HN, I&amp;#x27;ll frequently just middle-click a bunch of article links and (occasionally) their comments, then read them once I have a sizable queue.  Same goes for trying to look up documentation to fix some bug in my code; I&amp;#x27;ll start with a DuckDuckGo search and, suddenly, I have at least a dozen (sometimes multiple dozens) tabs open with Stack Overflow questions and blog posts and official online docs and such with clues pointing me in the right direction.</text></comment>