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[Federico Ulfo]

Here is my OSX user experience, I was using Firefox for inspect/debugging
web page, it's good but too over-bloated with functionalities and plugins.
I recently found my nirvana in Chrome, clean and fast.
Safari is the Zen for sailing the interweb.

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Hans Zaunere <bulk at zaunere.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> So, in a mix of rant-and-feedback-gathering - is it just me, or have
> browsers largely gone downhill in the last few months?
>
> Chrome:  freezes continually with 1mb view source.  Seems more worried
> about
> trying to get me to login to the mothership and track my social networks,
> than actually being a browser that can download text from a web server.
> And, if I would so happen to want to reload a page (crazy, right?), it's so
> hell-bent on caching everything that I have to restart it to see any new
> content - control-r, forget about it.  Guess they want their browser to be
> "fast" :)
>
> Firefox:  what happened to my friend?!?  Great, now we get a new release
> every few minutes, but it crashes, can't correctly repost a form
> (everything
> is always expired), view source hangs or won't display the source of a
> POST,
> and it won't even copy the HTML out of Firebug into a text editor...
> control-c doesn't capture anything!  Not to mention it's using 800mb of my
> RAM and renders pages about as quick as a 286.
>
> IE9:  so, disable cache for all requests; that's handy.  Fast, but will
> actually re-request the page from the server when told to do so.  Developer
> tools aren't great, but it's not using 1gb of RAM either.  View source is,
> eh, well...
>
> These are all the latest version of these browsers.  Though right now the
> best I've found is:
>
> wget -O - test.site/something | less
>
> So that I can actually see what the server is spitting back - and it works
> like a charm :)
>
> So am I missing something here, or... anyone else having these types of
> problems (more so) of late?
>
> H
>
>
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