Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
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Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
#2I use firefox on ubuntu and the performance is terrible. Its constantly crashing, tabs crash individually, it hangs, launching memory heavy websites seems to crash it most often. When I switched to chromium the performance got a lot better.
Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
#3I use firefox on ubuntu and the performance is terrible. Its constantly crashing, tabs crash individually, it hangs, launching memory heavy websites seems to crash it most often. When I switched to chromium the performance got a lot better.
I use firefox on ubuntu as well and it works very nicely. Its RAM and CPU usage is negligible, sites load very fast, and the developer tools are awesome.
I think something is wrong on your system.
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#4Firefox is okay overall but it's quite distracting. for example it often blocks apt-get with auto updates. it crashes once an hour
Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
#5I use firefox on ubuntu and the performance is terrible. Its constantly crashing, tabs crash individually, it hangs, launching memory heavy websites seems to crash it most often. When I switched to chromium the performance got a lot better.
I was having a similar experience earlier this year, so I reluctantly did the same for a while. I got sick of chromium though, really missed reader mode for one thing, so I decided to put in some more effort to troubleshoot.
For me what did it was switching to wayland (sway[1] specifically, from dwm on x11). Now it's a good step faster than chromium.
I agree with the sibling comment; there's something wrong going on, what you're describing isn't firefox's baseline.
[1]: https://swaywm.org/
Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
#6Distraction-free? Have they stopped filling the new tab page with revenue-generators like Pocket?
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#7I switched over to Firefox when I read that Chrome was limiting the functionality of ad block extensions and it's been a fantastic browser so far.
Re: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
#8Distraction-free? Have they stopped filling the new tab page with revenue-generators like Pocket?
Two clicks and it‘s gone forever. In the main GUI, not some about:config setting.
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#9Let’s enumerate how Firefox is bugging the user to tell him they respect his privacy:
- Each time one opens a tab,
- Every week in my mailbox,
- When opening any other website and their popup is here to tell me « You’re protected! »
- When one opens a website and FF asks « Do you want to install this privacy extension? », pointing at the facebook jail or the container feature.
- When suggesting to use Pocket or any new idea,
Chrome succeeded by advertising in competitors’ browsers (through Google properties) for Chrome and making Chrome get out of the way... in Chrome. I’m not sure Firefox can succeed by bugging the user in their own browser. Also, coming from a company who fired his CEO for a private donation made 10 years earlier, claiming it’s a privacy-respecting company is rich.
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#10It's true. I have kept giving Firefox another chance over time but haven't been convinced.
Recently, I tried Firefox again on Windows. And the experience is amazing indeed - faster, smoother, and with trackers blocking, very pleasant. And with strict protection, that's sort-of a builtin ad blocker.
Something still feels off on MacOS even though the last version has been a massive improvement for MBP Retina.