[Noisebridge-discuss] seeking geek advice: firefox+vimerator or chrom?

[Michael Shiloh]

Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> Excerpts from Michael Shiloh's message of Sat Jan 02 18:12:27 -0800 2010:
>> I have a geek dilemma, and I my usual sources of advice won't understand 
>> the geek nuances present, so I'm turning to you.
>>
>> I finally got tired of Firefox crashing or hogging all memory and CPU 
>> and forcing me to kill it, so I tried Chrome. I've been using it for 
>> about a week and I love it.
>>
>> Today I discovered Vimperator, a plugin for Firefox which provides 
>> vi-like navigation and browsing. Apart from being wonderfully geeky, it 
>> allows me to do everything browser related without removing my hands 
>> from the keyboard. After 30 some years of using vi, I'm pretty quick 
>> with it.
> 
> I'm a regular Vimperator user, and I've really enjoyed it. Sadly,
> Firefox is still somewhat lacking in the memory management department
> (granted, I have a habit of opening too many tabs).
> 
> Another browser that's sort of similar is "uzbl". It's a libwebkit-based
> browser that also implements a lot of anti-mouse shortcuts like
> vimperator, but is also very much UNIX-like in that the program on its
> own is just the document window. Implementing tabs, for example, is
> don't externally by layering document windows.
> 
> Cute idea, but I couldn't reliably get the libraries lined up under
> Debian Stable, so I've yet to really dive into it.

What, 30 tabs is too many?

Why is Firefox so bad at memory management?