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

[Richard Z]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 08:10:25PM +0200, 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.

common usage pattern for me: few hundred tabs, browse untill browser inevitably
crashes, restart and continue happilly again. Extensions to delete all but a few 
select cookies periodicaly and very frequently, certificet patrol, nocript,
adblock, vimperator, greasemonkey.

Curious which plugin Michal uses to count the open tabs?

Current Firefox is quite miserable and easy to crash on Fedora - suffice to
open some images of dimensions like 10000x10000 pixels and it won't take long. 
Both the browser and X should handle this or at least have safeguards.

Richard

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