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What browser do you use? If there was a sane option, I would use it but Firefox really consumes resources even putting effort in to optimizing my settings. Using the tor browser or something is just not practical for everyday use. You can either give your data to microsoft, apple or google (if you haven't already) or use FF.

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http://www.opera.com/ might be a good Chromium based option. Not perfect, but a solid browser worth exploring, especially since you can use Chrome/Chromium extensions. I've been using it for several months now (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/xPcpRB...), and am mostly satisfied.

> If there was a sane option, I would use it but Firefox

I use it daily on all my units (Windows, Linux, Android) and I have zero issues.

In what ways is it not sane?

i meant to imply that suggestions about browsers, (following a statement like "delete chrome") often aren't practical for most people, and as a web dev I need a fairly traditional environment. So by "sane", I meant things like using ice weasel with noscript or tor-browser, or a very non-traditional small independent browser. I have reasonable privacy and security settings in place but need to be able to test websites etc.

I was asking the above because I love FF but on my macbook it was spinning the fan up and using a lot of cpu. I will try it again, but it would crash or throw the computer into spinning beachball mode; a lot.

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