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Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It
An anonymous reader sends this quote from Conceivably Tech:
"Admit it. You are in a love-hate relationship with Firefox. Either Mozilla gets Firefox right and you are jumping up and down, or Mozilla screws up and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor Chrome. Mozilla's passionate user base keeps Firefox dangling between constant ups and downs, which is a good thing, as long as Mozilla is going up. Unfortunately, that is not the case right now. Mozilla's market share has been slipping again at a significant pace. There has been some discussion and finger-pointing, and it seems that the rapid release process has to take the blame this time. Are we right to blame the rapid release process?"
What do you find most annoying or gratifying about Firefox these days?
It's the other way around, buster. The technology is here to permit me to organize my work flow however I see fit, without constraining myself to whatever it is that fits into your small mind.
Long ago I've seen people told "there's no reason to put 300 files into one file folder". Yes, indeed, this would cause performance problems on some systems during the death throes of DOS.
There's no reason a modern computer should have problems with 300 tabs any more than a DOS computer should have problems with 300 files in one directory. But every large DOS application included its own custom "file management" screen (you couldn't task switch to a finder), and often these screens performed some kind of sort, and often the coding was so horrific that keyboard response was N^2 in the number of files in the folder viewed.
FF didn't pull the horrific coding stunt, but they did pull off the horrific API stunt, where extension authors had a hell of a time identifying lapses in their API conformance. Apparently this is somewhat fixed now circa FF 15.
Good grief, sonny boy, if you come around these parts telling me to size my tasks to the incompetence of the platform provider, I'll give you a kick in the pants with a wind-up all the way back to the stone age, passing the Concorde mid-swing.
Considering you're [presumably] using an "i7-equipped PC", I think the fact that your web browser freezes when opening new tabs speaks to larger problems with your computer than your choice of web browser.