Mark Dain Ok so Firefox 47 ( mozilla.org/en-US/... ) is probably going to be the last good version for some time. Firefox 48 will enable e10s which last time I tried was unforgivably buggy and unstable. I'm turning off updates (Preferences > Advanced > Update > Never check for updates) for a few versions while this smooths over. Let me know how e10s is if you choose to upgrade to 48.
Asko P. I'm actually running Chrome Canary (chrome beta, or is it alpha?) as a default browser. Firefox was super awesome, but after usage for about a month or so it got unforgivably slow as dog shit. While Chrome has its ups and downs, one thing it has mostly always had is speed that doesn't decline with each usage.
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Mark Dain Canary is Chrome's nightly channel. There's Stable, Beta, Dev and Nightly/Canary: dev.chromium.org/g... I regularly use Firefox, Chrome and Safari; I sort of hop between browsers, picking the best features from all 3. I regularly have all 3 open too, especially at work.
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Asko P. Oh so I'm on the really really bleeding edge? Awesome. The new material design UI is actually pretty decent as well! Firefox appealed to me because of the lack of everything-google-or-die branding, and Safari, well, haven't used that since they stopped releasing Windows versions.
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Mark Dain Yeah, you can't get more bleeding edge than Canary. It's always been great for me. I love Firefox as it feels like "the right thing to do"; I feel safer using it and I trust Mozilla a lot. I also love the powerful add-ons. It's typical for me to tweak and mod Firefox to the point where some websites won't load, always leading me to "dual wield" Firefox and Chrome/Safari. I forget you're using Windows -- Safari has always been nicer on OS X. It's incredibly power efficient, giving you literally hours more battery life. It's light and crazy fast. Perfect for when I don't need a heavy WebGL or something site that Chrome excels at.
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