FF is great, only two things left I go to Chrome for are DevTools and watching Youtube (lower cpu usage, lower battery drain).
Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
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#132Firefox is a great browser and Mozilla is a (generally) great organization. It's my daily driver on all my devices (except my TV ha), it's fast and has great plugins that also work in mobile. Philosophically I'm very much a "root for the underdog" type of person so it makes me happy that way, too. Only very rarely (every few months) am I forced to use Chrome for a site - and in my view, that's a huge ding on the site…
> It's strange hearing reports of "scroll lag" in the other comments. It's possible I'm just lucky. Or there's a misconfiguration somewhere in their setup that Chrome somehow avoids. Don't forget the other possibility: someone using Firefox having internalized this lag as "normal behavior".
They might be talking about "Smooth Scrolling." But personally I don't see any lag on Firefox.
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#133Does this require some special test environment (special OS, special builds of firefox/chrome)?
Because for me chrome vs firefox (both 115)
- ubuntu desktop: 148(+-2.2) vs 126(+-6.5)
- android phone: 95.8(+-2.0) vs 78.5(+-4.3)
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
What extension do you use for vertical tabs on FF? I tried tree style tabs and sideberry but liked neither.
Tree Style Tabs would be so great if it had folders/nodes for categories of tabs. My workaround are tabs with fittingly named Wikipedia articles, but a builtin feature would be more pleasant to use.
Sidebery has this!
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#135FF is great, only two things left I go to Chrome for are DevTools and watching Youtube (lower cpu usage, lower battery drain).
Youtube performance/reliability on OSX made me switch to Brave.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Give Firefox Developer Edition a try, if haven't already, and are looking for more robust development tools.
What are the differences compared to regular Firefox?
Firefox Developer Edition is targeted towards developers, and contains the latest development tools available.
New features also land quicker, as it is built against Firefox beta.
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#137The biggest reason I stick with Chrome is how easy it is to resume your work on a new machine. You just log into your Google account and boom, all of your data and extensions start syncing in the background. With Firefox, I've to log into a new FF account and then log into my Gmail again anyway. I admit I'm lazy but for me, ergonomics usually comes before ideology.
This is only true for your Google account, right? You're not magically logged into HN already on the new machine? Chrome isn't actually syncing your cookies, it's just that logging into the browser logs you into all your Google apps too.
Firefox syncs extensions, preferences, open tabs, etc. The only thing it can't do is automatically log into Google, but having to enter one extra username/password one time per computer seems like a pretty minor reason to pick a browser, unless you're constantly logging in on new computers.
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#138I’d be curious to see how Safari stacks up. I switched to it when I was finding Firefox too slow a long time and have largely stuck with it because of inertia. Very happy with it as a browser though.
Safari has the fastest JavaScript engine by far. It has been #1 on JetStream for years by large margin, JavaScriptCore greatly outperforming both V8 and SpiderMonkey.
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#139There was a time when Firefox felt a lot slower than Chromium, but for a few years now it's been close enough (even if still somewhat slower) to not bother me, while Firefox clearly offers superior functionality and much better performance under high load. The last time Chromium has felt attractive compared to Firefox was a really long time ago. Glad to see it moving in the right direction still.
Firefox's GC seems to be much slower than chromium at least as of 109. Certain Vue websites are rather prolific in their garbage generation and The performance difference between chromium and firefox is easily noticeable, particularly if you leave an SPA open for a while.
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#140Chrome and Safari still feel way faster in normal usage though, as they try to predict the most likely page the user will open and start pre-loading it even before the user has pressed Enter. Firefox is my daily driver, but sometimes I use Safari for some specific cases and Safari certainly is stupidly fast compared to Firefox.