Web browser question of the day…
When did the people writing the firefox decide that the whole business of small and fast was bad and large and bloated was good? If Firefox is just sitting there doing nothing, it eats 10% of the CPU on my macbook, and the latest and greatest version of the horrid thing apparently can’t even change the cursor to a busy cursor when you attempt to hop from one website to another.
If Safari or Camino had functional adblocking, I’d be leaping on them in a flash. Sure, they probably suck, but they’re not Open Source™®© flagships and thus actually need to work, which is more than I can say for the pile of bodges firefox appears to be becoming.
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I find that it’s generally the flash plugin that’s eating CPU from Firefox.
There’s a not-quite-done-yet Qt cross platform browser call arora; there’s an OS X package. It might annoy you a bit less.
And there’s always w3m. :)
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Probably when the great PooBahs of standards decided that browsers just absolutely needed to natively deal with elements that were not text markup.
The newest seems to be video. I don’t give a damn if Firefox can natively display video. It is possible I might use it again (first time was the welcome to 3.5 page video demo), but I don’t see the likelihood.
Firefox isn’t the only lousy browser, they are all going the way of crap. That said, if I disable all the plugins I use, firefox doesn’t sit around eating cpu resources.