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guenter
No FF did not get slower and more bloated quite the opposite but Your hardware got older and fails on modern rich content.
I don't know which Firefox version Brad is comparing to the current one, but in my experience it has gotten much slower, at least with version 43.0.4. To be fair, comparisons should be made with the same hardware, but when software starts to get bloated, the developers always blame the users' hardware. Not everyone can afford to buy a new system every time a new version is released, and Firefox gets updated with incredible frequency.
A comparison I just made using my Windows 7 machine showed that Firefox consumes about 85 MB of RAM on startup, even with my wifi switched off and nothing but a simply local HTML page loaded. I can get it down to 75 MB if I disable all my add-ons. Under the same conditions, KM75 starts out at 25 MB.
Also, I've seen some sites with Flash videos bump RAM usage up to 173 MB in Firefox, while the same site with the identical content uses 125 MB in KM.
I watched a video a few days ago using FF, and once I had cleaned up and closed the browser, my system had trouble recovering -- everything was running very slowly, so I had to restart Windows. After the same video in KM: No problem!
Page-loading speed is another thing: This forum is relatively simple and pages load almost instantly, but not so in Firefox, where there are lags.
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Gerry