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

[Evan Martin]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Brian Johnson <noisebridge at dogtoe.com> wrote:
> To be honest, I've been non-satisfied with Chrome's lack of decent
> extensions. Adblock+, Web Developer Toolbar, and Greasmonkey are extensions
> that I cannot find on Chrome. (Yes, Adblock exists, but its not the same and
> Greasemetal is not compatible with half of the scripts on userscripts.org)

Chrome has native support for user scripts.  Click on a .user.js file
from userscripts.org and Chrome implicitly converts it into an
extension.  (The Chrome extensions system is a sort of generalization
of Greasemonkey.  Both were designed by the same person.)  However, it
is true that some Greasemonkey APIs (roughly, the ones that are
difficult to make secure) are unavailable in Chrome.

> It also seems that recent versions of Chrome builds end up having lots of
> regressions that cause stupid shit like XMLHttpRequest to cause memory leaks
> (specifically after leaving Google Reader open in the background). As much
> as I hate AJAX and stupid websites (looking at you Facebook) that abuse it,
> the memory leak issue is a real problem for me because more and more
> websites are using AJAX like it's some sort of fad. I have stuck with
> Firefox's performance issues because, surprisingly, it seems that Firefox
> has been more stable than Chrome has been (lately).

It sounds like you shouldn't be using nightly builds.  In general, you
can kill a tab via the task manager (shift-esc) and then hit reload in
the now-crashed tab to "reboot" the app.  (Chrome joke: "F5 is the new
Ctl-Alt-Del".)

I think the best bet for the original poster is Firefox coupled with
Flashblock; in my experience, Flash is the major source of instability
and memory consumption in Firefox.