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Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by noobermin »

whalesalad wrote: post #4

I switched cold turkey to Firefox a few months ago. It was fine for a bit but eventually became unbearably slow. I made the switch on both my work MacBook Pro (retina) and my personal MacBook Air. Both had similar issues. That and the fact that it ships with things like Pocket made me jump back to Chrome.

Different strokes. This certainly was not my experience.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by noobermin »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #19

I never really "switched" to any particular browser, I use Safari/Vivaldi/Firefox concurrently, but have noticed how much better Firefox has gotten recently, after years of painful decline (Speed, and resource hogging being my biggest peeves). The only major thing I wish it did better is if it conserved battery power as well as Safari does. If I want to maximize my laptop's battery life I don't really have a choice o…

I don't think that is Firefox's fault vs. Safari being optimized for usage on MacOS machines obviously.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by alistproducer2 »

I've switched back from chrome for the quantum release. Overall, it works fine 99% of the time but since chrome became the new IE there are a few sites that break in non-webkit browsers. Not enough of an inconvenience to make me go back to handing over all my info to Google.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by colordrops »

tyteen4a03 wrote: post #15

When it stops being a battery hog on Macs, sure. On Android the performance is comparable to Chrome, but I can never get used to some of their UXes (pressing the X button doesn't clear the address bar, instead closes it). Also no seamless page opening with Google search app (although I suspect they can't do much about this)

The X thing to close the address bar is so obviously wrong. Needs to be changed to clear it.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by f311a »

noobermin wrote: post #24
f311a wrote: post #6

I've switched to Firefox on most of my devices. And there is only one thing which I don't like — high CPU usage compared to chrome. It makes my old MacBook air very noisy because of the fan spinning. When I use chrome it's completely silent.

Off chance, do you use html5 video?

I do. For me, it looks like Firefox is struggling with rendering when it comes to any kind of animation/effects, e.g videos, images, as well as js powered animations using SVG/canvas. Even simple things make my laptop boil.

Maybe I'm wrong about CPU and it's all about integrated Intel GPU.

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by thermodynthrway »

I switched back a few months ago on all of my devices and only go back when I need Chrome devtools, Firefox is absolutely back in its prime. Feels just as speedy as Chrome on desktop and mobile, and handles large numbers of tabs better.

Ironically, or maybe intentionally, Google services are the only thing degraded. Google even refuses to give you the regular home page. Thankfully you can just get an extension that fakes Chrome useragent on the offending pages, but it's the darkest pattern I've ever seen

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by ktosobcy »

whalesalad wrote: post #4

I switched cold turkey to Firefox a few months ago. It was fine for a bit but eventually became unbearably slow. I made the switch on both my work MacBook Pro (retina) and my personal MacBook Air. Both had similar issues. That and the fact that it ships with things like Pocket made me jump back to Chrome.

I use it as a daily driver since quite a long time (2 years I guess (* )) and I find the performance not to be an issue (MBP retina late 2013), especially considering having open most of the time 4 windows with about 50 tabs. It can warm the machine on opening 5-10 amazon pages at once but there is no slowdown.

As for Pocket - I don't use it, but prefer this non-inclusive addon instead of Google spying on my every move (yes, you don't have to log-in to google account and you can install ad-blockers but still). And also I don't want to end up with "Best viewed with Inter^WChrome" Internet.

(* ) (using Firebird, then long time Opera user until version 12, then made a switch to Firefox, then to Vivaldi for a 1-2 years and now back to Firefox again)

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #26
ghaff wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure I understand. I routinely have a personal Google Drive tab and a work tab in Chrome. Ditto with email.

There are occasions where Google’s native multi account management falls flat.

stackdriver.com has to be one of the worst! selecting the right account just causes an infinite loop if the correct account isn't index[0] in your logged in accounts!

Re: Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

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Post by menacingly »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #26
ghaff wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure I understand. I routinely have a personal Google Drive tab and a work tab in Chrome. Ditto with email.

There are occasions where Google’s native multi account management falls flat.

Especially surrounding Drive. I don't envy them, it's tough to get right.
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