Why Firefox is not a good choice of browser for a KDE/Plasma-based product

[Michal Hlavinka]

On 03/31/2014 08:10 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Michal Hlavinka wrote:
>> I use tabs in firefox as my todo-list (with extra addons to make sure I
>> don't lose it). Right now I have 480+ tabs. Firefox is still working, it
>> is fast and memory consumption is reasonable.
>
> This is clear abuse of the web browser, not the common usage pattern. I'm
> surprised that ANY browser supports that kind of abuse. (Especially Firefox
> used to get criticized for excessive memory requirements by people like you
> opening hundreds of tabs.) I don't think this should be a requirement for
> our default browser.

I agree that so many tabs is not an usual use case. I mentioned it just 
to note that even if you abuse firefox, it works. On the other hand, 
fifty tabs is not that much, yet rekonq (and qupzilla) both used a lot 
of memory and crashed.

Anyway, I just voiced my opinion that people won't be happy with 
konqueror nor rekonq. All (mostly Fedora) KDE users I know use Firefox 
or Chrome. I personally do not know anyone happy with how konqueror or 
rekonq work. I will continue to use firefox. I will not (co)maintain any 
of the mentioned browsers. You will, so you decide. I just wrote to let 
you know what me and other present consumers of KDE SIG's work think and 
use (at least those I know, some may think differently).

Michal