Like replying to comments on YouTube, trying to login to GMail. It's just inexcusable how my text cursor stutters when I'm on Firefox and I'm trying to type something, anything, into a Google service. PNG pictures and animations that helped decorate the site. Websites back then, were loaded fast even with images. I'll gladly take the mid-2000s web over modern web, any day and every day. I don't give a diddly darn if the menu slowly scrolls down while it fades in after I click the already unnecessary menu button (see above), nor for parallax scrolling and any and all other eye candy if it means the browser runs like shit. The basic necessary stuff to create a functioning service. Just graphics, links, text, buttons, tables, etc. Man, I'd gladly take the early-mid 2000s internet over what we have now, any day. To me, it's just plain sad that in a lot of cases, I had a smoother browsing experience in 2006 with a P4-2.66GHz/512MB than now with my i5-4690/8GB system. From 2009, there hasn't been a 12x increase in RAM on typical PCs, yet the modern web, and the browsers used, have become such massive, bloated, resource hogs. I am well aware that the modern browser is doing a lot more behind the scenes than older one, but it just doesn't scale at all. And according to about:memory, the addons only take 33MB of RAM, and the rest are occupied by Javascript related stuff and browser composition and whatnot. The only addons I use are Adblock Plus and VideoDownloadHelper. The fact Firefox takes 800MB of RAM for a single tab containing reddit, which is mostly text, never fails to amaze. Chrome in terms of resources isn't really much better than Firefox in my experience. The Firefox zealots seem to love blaming all the problems on addons, but I've had the same experiences with a fresh install of Firefox on a fresh install of Windows. Open 20 tabs, use it for a while, close all of them except one, and Firefox is still using the same memory as it did with 20 tabs. I've been using Firefox for 11 years since 2006, and as my primary browser for 8 years since 2009, but for the past few years it has just sucked hard.įirefox leaks memory really badly. In my experience, Firefox is especially bad. Other browsers are obscure, and because so, lack in extensibility and updates as well since their userbase and support is so small. Modern browsers just seem to be a case of "Pick your poison."Ĭhrome and Firefox are glorious resource hogs. But on a desktop, it seriously just makes no sense to hide them away by default. On a mobile device, you have very limited horizontal space, so it makes sense to hide the menus away and open them with the three-line-button thing. If I'm using a desktop with a mouse and keyboard, I don't care for such a mobile-inspired design. So much wasted white space, and those god damn sidebars. What is up with desktop sites using mobile design? The first issue: Mobile design on desktop. Why is it that the modern web has to be a clusterfuck of bloat and bad design?
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