I'm a nerd, a geek, a computer scientist, a free software advocate, and a staunch supporter of open source since I was 15. I've always favored quality over marketing bull**bleep**, few features but functional ones, rather than endless marketing bull**bleep**.
Today, I'm reluctantly giving up on Firefox. It's been going on for several years, and I've been banging my head against the wall because of its slowness, bugs, and memory consumption. It no longer does the job as a web browser. I use three features: navigation, tabs, and favorites. As I write this message, I have a dozen tabs open, consuming 5.5 GB of memory and 20% of my CPU.
I'm getting older, I spend my days developing and fixing bugs, and when I just want to surf the net, I no longer have the energy to search for, configure, and optimize 40 settings in the hope of being able to scroll through a page without lag, or click on a link without waiting 30 seconds for something to display, or for my tab to crash, and therefore all the others with it (Chrome solved this problem around 2005, I think).
So good luck to you, long live open source, but above all, long live programs that do what they're designed to do, and do it well. KISS
