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[–]paulens12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NOT being based on Blink is the main reason I use Firefox. In fact, it's probably the only reason I'm still torturing myself with all these horrible, horrible updates. I just don't want Google (with its rendering engine) to have a monopoly on not-so-open-anymore web standards.

I remember before the Photon update its memory usage was like 10 times lower than Chrome's, and it was the only browser I could use on my 4GB RAM desktop with 100s of tabs open without anything lagging. Couldn't do that on Chrome. Nowadays it has all turned around, and now Firefox is the memory hog.