Tag Archives: firefox

Shipping Epiphany or Firefox by default

I just read roozbez‘s explaination on planet GNOME to why Sharif Linux shipped Firefox by default instead of Epiphany. The most important reason was marketing. Firefox is well known in the computer savvy user arena and ofcourse this is an advantage. But does it really matter? First of all from what I understand Mozilla doesn’t [...]

Epiphany as default browser?

An interesting discussion: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EpiphanyDefaultBrowser Personally I hate Firefox for being sluggish and not consistant with GNOME. All the menus are different. But when I use Epiphany I miss some advanced functions of Firefox (especially when I right-click). And I totally hate the latest function in Firefox which makes you zap to next or previous page [...]

Firefox: Lets hog more memory!

Firefox apparantly has a new feature which caches pages in memory. YEAH LETS HOG EVEN MORE MEMORY to make the end user experience faster. I sure hope its possible to disable this feature by default. Firefox seems to calculate the amount of crap it will cache based on available RAM. Maybe OTHER processes might like [...]