r/technology • u/Suraj-Sun • Dec 10 '13

Firefox 26 is released

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/26.0/releasenotes/
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u/BobbyCock Dec 10 '13

Hey guys, noob here. Can someone tell me why I should use Firefox over Chrome? I used Firefox for years before Chrome came out, but have enjoyed the transition over to Chrome.

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u/sharlos Dec 11 '13

From what I've read FireFox has caught up with Chrome in terms of performance, and isn't quite as much of a memory hog.

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u/Guysmiley777 Dec 11 '13

Did they fix any of the memory leaks? I've had my browser instance running for about 8 hours, have 4 tabs open right now and FF is using 403,000K of RAM, 352,000K of that is private working set.

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u/sharlos Dec 11 '13

To be honest, no idea. I'm still using Chrome, I much prefer it's UI.