Was tired of Chrome eating up all my RAM, but uBlock ban was the final straw. Also, anyone else attacked on Reddit for pointing out any flaw with Chrome?
Recently I've been growing tired of Chrome dragging my system to a crawl. I feel that internet browsers, even modern ones, should be optimized to run even on old hardware. There is no reason for a browser to be a RAM guzzling gremlin.
Then yesterday I opened up Chrome and after the usual 5 minute startup, I was hit with a notification that uBlock origins had been disabled.
Lol, fucking goodbye Chrome. Transitioned to Firefox and it was easier than expected.
Not only that, but it runs SMOOTH AS HELL, it is snappy af even on my crappy laptop. I am so damn ecstatic. Thank you Google for blasting yourself in the crotch with a bazooka and forcing my lazy ass to finally crawl out of the dumpster.
One final thing that has always bothered me about Chrome is the mfers on Reddit that would come out of the woodworks with insane walls of text dying on a hill to defend it whenever I would complain about its performance.
Their argument is ALWAYS basically the narcissist's prayer, all in one breath lol:
- Chrome doesn't have bad performance / use up all your RAM ("Your personal experience that happened did not happen").
- Yes Chrome uses up 100% of your RAM, but you should never have free RAM ("Yeah I remember grinding my feet into Eddie's couch").
- If Chrome doesn't perform well on your system, you just don't have a good enough system (MFer to run a browser? Chrome even drags my core i9 32gig workstation that I use for game development, video, and audio editing....)
But I am very happy to tell you that recently I started reporting these dbags for bot activity, and spectacularly they actually get banned / have their comments removed! TY Mods for actually looking into these profiles! Give it a shot if it happens to you in the future.