Re: Let's start a survey on our userbase
On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 09:50 +0200, Linux User #330250 wrote:
> So Firefox 47 is faster and uses up less RAM (1.5 GB with 40 tabs open
> as compared to the same 1.5 GB with Firefox 138, but only 10 open tabs).
> But okay, we're comparing apples and pears, because the one is 32-bit,
> the other 64.
>
> Anyhow, that's my point exactly. It would only make sense to me to use
> current software. As long as it even runs, I'm okay with it, but I would
> have also hoped for more (or rather: continued) optimization regarding
> PowerPC specifically. This used to be part of Firefox, but since support
> was dropped (even f not announced officially), the last optimizations
> for PPC were removed from the code as well (i.e. as a fact: it's gone).
>
> You can look at the great work of Cameron Kaiser with
> https://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ TenFourFox (which was
> discontinued 2020:
> https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox-and-what-ive.html).
> I think in one of his blog posts he describes how every version of
> Mozillas Firefox was dropping more and more stuff that was specific to
> optimizations for PowerPC or Big Endian, or introducing
> incompatibilities due to no longer considering PPC and BE in the first
> place.
>
> IMHO -- and this is only my personal perception, so I might be wrong --
> up-to-date version of established software is not only getting slower
> due to getting more and more bloated, but also due to getting less and
> less PPC-specific optimizations and less and less tested on the platform.
I'm not sure actually what you're trying to achieve with this discussion.
Is this trying to get us to stop what we're doing?
Adrian
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