Is Firefox Okay?
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Is Firefox Okay?
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#2I used to use Firefox and I'd love to use it again on both desktop and mobile, but it's just so slow, memory-hungry and crashy compared to Chrome.
For example, I work on a wasm project in my spare time and it loads in a few seconds in Chrome. It does so, too, in Firefox, but just the first time. Reloading the page causes Firefox to leak a ton of memory and compiling my wasm suddenly takes dozens of seconds before crashing. And this is just a random anecdote, of course, but it's one of many over the years.
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#3I used to use Firefox and I'd love to use it again on both desktop and mobile, but it's just so slow, memory-hungry and crashy compared to Chrome. For example, I work on a wasm project in my spare time and it loads in a few seconds in Chrome. It does so, too, in Firefox, but just the first time. Reloading the page causes Firefox to leak a ton of memory and compiling my wasm suddenly takes dozens of seconds before cra…
My experience is the opposite.
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#4I used to use Firefox and I'd love to use it again on both desktop and mobile, but it's just so slow, memory-hungry and crashy compared to Chrome. For example, I work on a wasm project in my spare time and it loads in a few seconds in Chrome. It does so, too, in Firefox, but just the first time. Reloading the page causes Firefox to leak a ton of memory and compiling my wasm suddenly takes dozens of seconds before cra…
I use both, but my experience is different.
I use Firefox, for my trusted sites, mail, banking, various stores, documentation etc.
I use chrome, fore throwaway lookups etc.
Firefox runs for weeks at the time (I am on always on desktops (work and home)) (I restart firefox when new update hits.), but chrome gets laggy after few days.
And i am the type of person that has 100s of tabs open, over few windows each.
I do use primarily Linux though, if that makes any difference.
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#6I used to use Firefox and I'd love to use it again on both desktop and mobile, but it's just so slow, memory-hungry and crashy compared to Chrome. For example, I work on a wasm project in my spare time and it loads in a few seconds in Chrome. It does so, too, in Firefox, but just the first time. Reloading the page causes Firefox to leak a ton of memory and compiling my wasm suddenly takes dozens of seconds before cra…
I use both, but my experience is different. I use Firefox, for my trusted sites, mail, banking, various stores, documentation etc. I use chrome, fore throwaway lookups etc. Firefox runs for weeks at the time (I am on always on desktops (work and home)) (I restart firefox when new update hits.), but chrome gets laggy after few days. And i am the type of person that has 100s of tabs open, over few windows each. I do us…
That's odd. I'm running MacOS so perhaps the leak is in the OS layer somewhere.
Oh well. Looks like I'll just have to give Firefox another chance _again_ at some point :)
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#7I used to use Firefox and I'd love to use it again on both desktop and mobile, but it's just so slow, memory-hungry and crashy compared to Chrome. For example, I work on a wasm project in my spare time and it loads in a few seconds in Chrome. It does so, too, in Firefox, but just the first time. Reloading the page causes Firefox to leak a ton of memory and compiling my wasm suddenly takes dozens of seconds before cra…
As others mentioned, my experience is the opposite. I'm on Mac, and I forced myself to ditch Chrome due to privacy concerns and, honestly, I don't miss it at all.
Occasionally, I have to fire it up to test something for work, or if a site doesn't support Firefox (it's 2022 devs, come on). And, each time it reminds me of why I prefer Firefox. It seems so bulky in comparison, and everything seems to slowdown with it open, where Firefox just happily stays open in the background, w/multiple windows and tabs and rarely causes any issues.
Give it a shot again if it's been awhile, it's great.
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#8I can't help but feel that 'diversifying' Mozilla's product line up is one of the problems. I'd scrap everything else and just focus on the browser.
I know I have a skewed view of the software market, but I'd pay $$ per year for Firefox. It feels like many businesses would too if it offered some guarantees of data privacy.
Edge feels like it's moving AWAY from enterprises with the recent nonsense integrating deferred payments and price comparison tools. Brave is pushing Crypto which is kryptonite for many orgs. Chrome is feeding ad algorithms. Seems like a gap to me.
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#9I can't help but feel that 'diversifying' Mozilla's product line up is one of the problems. I'd scrap everything else and just focus on the browser. I know I have a skewed view of the software market, but I'd pay $$ per year for Firefox. It feels like many businesses would too if it offered some guarantees of data privacy. Edge feels like it's moving AWAY from enterprises with the recent nonsense integrating deferred…
All that stuff is poison. It comes from a good place but corporate uses it to promote people who should never ever be in a leadership position. Suddenly they get a platform for promoting gender issues instead of focusing on the product.
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#10I used to use Firefox and I'd love to use it again on both desktop and mobile, but it's just so slow, memory-hungry and crashy compared to Chrome. For example, I work on a wasm project in my spare time and it loads in a few seconds in Chrome. It does so, too, in Firefox, but just the first time. Reloading the page causes Firefox to leak a ton of memory and compiling my wasm suddenly takes dozens of seconds before cra…
Adblock on mobile is a huge perf gain for me. Firefox is one of the few mobile browsers to support it without root on android.