bfcastello wrote:Can I recommend Firefox? If you don't like Firefox, can I ask you why?
I used to be a big fan and user of Firefox. Then, years ago, when Mozilla started making what looked a bunch of changes for the sake of changes, I got a little annoyed, and found some solace with forks like Pale Moon. Later Mozilla went even further down the route of "Google Chrome is winning, so let's copy it to stay relevant", while Pale Moon decided to stick to the old UI, and old paradigms. Unfortunately that was a battle they could only lose. The web doesn't care about standards, all it cares about is making sure things work in the latest versions of the 2-3 mainstream browsers. So web compatibility started suffering big time with Mozilla forks that diverged too much. Pale Moon team introduced Basilisk to supposedly close the gap, and then they upgraded Pale Moon to a new code base and new engine, but if you keep on doing that - what is really the point? You are just chasing a train that's left the station long ago.
When I'm on a mac I use Safari. On Windows, I use Firefox. I have all major browsers installed on my mac (Safari, the new Edge, Firefox, Opera, Chrome) just for testing purposes at work.
I recently tested the new Edge with Chromium engine, on both macOS and Windows 10, and it's good, yes. I haven't tested enough to see RAM usage.
bfcastello wrote:I don't like Chrome and Google, really.
Neither do I, but then again, I don't want to go back to Mozilla because I don't see the point of using a browser that just wants to be a clone of the other browser. For now I switched over so Slimjet - it's Chromium-based, but not tied to Google, and is a tad more tweakable. It's also been fast, and their legacy version for XP/Vista is a bit more compatible with the modern web than what I'm used to from Pale Moon's legacy versions.
bfcastello wrote:It's not simplistic, and it's a matter of good programming. Good programmers write good code, and good code uses almost little resources while he can keep its program working better and faster. Good programmers were able to fit a Mario Bros game in a 40kb cartridge. Come on.
It is simplistic. In the past everyone had to work with scarce resources. Nowadays, resources are abundant. They allow programmers to be less concerned with resource usage, and more concerned with the use cases they are trying to enable / problems they are trying to solve. This situation allows more impressive programs to be developed faster, and things be done in code that 20-30 years ago (when people were busy fitting Mario in a 40KB cartridge) were just science fiction.
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