RJM62
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Geek on the Hill
Is it just me, or is Mozilla actually trying to make Firefox so bad that no one will want to use it any more? I have 29.0.1 installed on one of my other machines, which has a reasonably new installation of Windows 7 and little else on it, and I can't believe what an ponderously stinking pile of crap FF 29 is.
I'll make only brief mention of the crappy "Australis" UI: In short, it sucks. But it's part of a broader trend in UI design that begins with the assumption that all users are brain-dead and need everything dumbed down for them so they don't have to think. Ignore the fact that Firefox's claim to fame was its robustness and ability to be customized, and aim for the lowest common denominator instead. Hey, everyone else is doing it, so why not Mozilla?
But at least "Australis" can be banished easily enough, which is why it merits only brief mention. What bothers me more is its horrible performance. Look at the first attachment. I opened FF to its default start page, where it consumed 16 percent of CPU and ~219 MB of RAM -- doing NOTHING. It's just sitting on its start page, doing NOTHING.
By way of comparison, I opened IE to Google's home page (about the closest thing I could think of to the FF start page), and IE consumed 1.2 percent of CPU and ~38 MB of RAM. I never thought the day would come when IE would be more efficient than FF.
And just as if the crappy performance and dumbed-down interface weren't enough to kill Firefox, now the word is thatadvertising "sponsored content" will be next. That ought to go over like a fart in church. The cumulative CPU cycles being used to uninstall Firefox when that happens will drive a hole right through the space-time continuum.
-Rich
I'll make only brief mention of the crappy "Australis" UI: In short, it sucks. But it's part of a broader trend in UI design that begins with the assumption that all users are brain-dead and need everything dumbed down for them so they don't have to think. Ignore the fact that Firefox's claim to fame was its robustness and ability to be customized, and aim for the lowest common denominator instead. Hey, everyone else is doing it, so why not Mozilla?
But at least "Australis" can be banished easily enough, which is why it merits only brief mention. What bothers me more is its horrible performance. Look at the first attachment. I opened FF to its default start page, where it consumed 16 percent of CPU and ~219 MB of RAM -- doing NOTHING. It's just sitting on its start page, doing NOTHING.
By way of comparison, I opened IE to Google's home page (about the closest thing I could think of to the FF start page), and IE consumed 1.2 percent of CPU and ~38 MB of RAM. I never thought the day would come when IE would be more efficient than FF.
And just as if the crappy performance and dumbed-down interface weren't enough to kill Firefox, now the word is that
-Rich
