back to article Put Firefox DE and Chromium in blender. Devs... Is it pure Blisk?

Firefox Developer Edition offers a fantastic array of tools for web developers. From profiling memory use to debugging WebSocket and other HTML5 APIs, Firefox DE is a very useful tool. Developer Edition is, of course based on Firefox, which isn't to every developer's liking. To say Firefox is slower than Chromium is, in my …

  1. John Sanders
    Linux

    Do you want Firefox to perform better?

    In Linux at least, Firefox will halt your desktop to a crawl unless you use the "suspend tab" extension

    http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_suspendtab.html.en

    Use that extension wisely and be amazed at the difference it makes.

    1. Chemist

      Re: Do you want Firefox to perform better?

      "In Linux at least, Firefox will halt your desktop to a crawl unless you use the "suspend tab" extension"

      Definitely not on my desktop OpenSUSE 13.2 /KDE/ FF 49.0.2

      1. david bates

        Re: Do you want Firefox to perform better?

        Nor mine...Cinnamon Mint 18

    2. thames

      Re: Do you want Firefox to perform better?

      I've definitely never seen any problem like that happen with Ubuntu (Unity or before that Gnome 2), or with Mandrake before that (KDE or Gnome).

  2. AbelSoul
    Thumb Up

    Cheers for the head's up...

    I'd never heard of Blisk but am downloading now for a nosey.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Firefox DE

    I thought it was a German localisation.

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