Here is my OSX user experience, I was using Firefox for inspect/debugging web page, it's good but too over-bloated with functionalities and plugins. I recently found my nirvana in Chrome, clean and fast. Safari is the Zen for sailing the interweb.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Hans Zaunere <b...@zaunere.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > So, in a mix of rant-and-feedback-gathering - is it just me, or have > browsers largely gone downhill in the last few months? > > Chrome: freezes continually with 1mb view source. Seems more worried > about > trying to get me to login to the mothership and track my social networks, > than actually being a browser that can download text from a web server. > And, if I would so happen to want to reload a page (crazy, right?), it's so > hell-bent on caching everything that I have to restart it to see any new > content - control-r, forget about it. Guess they want their browser to be > "fast" :) > > Firefox: what happened to my friend?!? Great, now we get a new release > every few minutes, but it crashes, can't correctly repost a form > (everything > is always expired), view source hangs or won't display the source of a > POST, > and it won't even copy the HTML out of Firebug into a text editor... > control-c doesn't capture anything! Not to mention it's using 800mb of my > RAM and renders pages about as quick as a 286. > > IE9: so, disable cache for all requests; that's handy. Fast, but will > actually re-request the page from the server when told to do so. Developer > tools aren't great, but it's not using 1gb of RAM either. View source is, > eh, well... > > These are all the latest version of these browsers. Though right now the > best I've found is: > > wget -O - test.site/something | less > > So that I can actually see what the server is spitting back - and it works > like a charm :) > > So am I missing something here, or... anyone else having these types of > problems (more so) of late? > > H > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation >
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