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Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by account42 »

coldpie wrote: post #171
alpaca128 wrote: post #162

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On my main Firefox profile I'm rarely below 1000 tabs. I also use them as bookmarks and backlog, and every couple of months I scroll through the entire tab bar and close everything unimportant. The address bar also searches all open tabs and lets me jump to matches.

FWIW the Firefox address bar also searches your history and bookmarks, so you can still retrieve those sites by searching for them without keeping a tab open for each one. Feel free to do what you like, obviously, but if having a zillion tabs open is causing you problems, know that there are other solutions :)

Don't rely on you browsing history - Firefox will start deleting old entries without warning you if it gets big enough.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by manuelmoreale »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #263
dahfizz wrote: post #259

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> I couldn't imagine opening more than a dozen of tabs without it. I can't imagine having more than a dozen tabs open, period. You tab hoarders will never make sense to me...

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to have multiple tabs open that doesn't really have to do with "hoarding". For games, I often have a bunch of wiki tabs open at the same time.

A bunch is reasonable but I’ve seen people here on HN claim to have multiple windows with thousand of tabs on them. That is beyond comprehension for me but if it works for them that’s awesome.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by cpeterso »

nateb2022 wrote: post #198
Kholin wrote: post #64

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For me, Firefox performs better on Linux than on Windows.

This is true of a lot of things.

For example, Mozilla compiles Firefox’s official macOS and Windows builds on Linux because cross-compilation is faster and cheaper than compiling on macOS or Windows in the cloud.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by paranoidxprod »

jzoch wrote: post #286
SomeHacker44 wrote: post #279

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The thing that I really like in Chrome (which I use for work) is Tab Groups. There is nothing like it for Firefox. Even the "Simple Tab Groups" extension, which is well liked, cannot do the simple "grouping" of tabs in a larger window - it simply hides all the tabs that are not in current use (which defeats the purpose of tab groups, I can just use windows for that). Another thing that Chrome has is the ability to na…

Honestly you are the first person I’ve ever heard that prefers chromes tab system. Check out tree style tabs it’ll change your life. I hate chrome now solely due to it

I recently started using Sidebery over TST and found it much more customizable for how I use tabs. It's worth taking a look at if you haven't already.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by fht »

mortalkastor wrote: post #248
beltsazar wrote: post #214

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I switched to Firefox from Chrome years ago because Chrome was slower. Specially, when there were many tabs opened, switching tabs in Chrome were usually prefaced with a blank white screen for about 2 seconds. I've been staying with Firefox not for the performance (today Chrome loads Google sites like YouTube faster), but mainly for Tree Style Tab extension. I couldn't imagine opening more than a dozen of tabs withou…

I switched to Orion[0] as a test, discovered the awesomeness of superbly integrated, native, tree style tabs, and now I'm stuck with this browser where sites I need for work are half broken. I tried Firefox with Tree Style Tab extension, but it's not nearly as good :( [0] https://browser.kagi.com

On firefox you can also use sidebery. If I recall correctly it worked decently well. Currently I'm using Arc which performs well enough for my use cases, although being locked into chromium kinda sucks.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by panzi »

That's great. But Google Maps Street View (-> GeoGuessr) is still a slideshow under Firefox (Linux) for me. (I tried all the things under about:config) Really hope that gets fixed some day. On that day I will switch back. Really missing browser containers (well, I'm booting Firefox just for that, actually).

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by Night_Thastus »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #292
Night_Thastus wrote: post #263

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There are plenty of legitimate reasons to have multiple tabs open that doesn't really have to do with "hoarding". For games, I often have a bunch of wiki tabs open at the same time.

A bunch is reasonable but I’ve seen people here on HN claim to have multiple windows with thousand of tabs on them. That is beyond comprehension for me but if it works for them that’s awesome.

Oh, yeah thousands seems like a lot. But I'm not sure, maybe there's a workflow where that makes sense.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by account42 »

penguin_booze wrote: post #129
terafo wrote: post #107

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Firefox is slower for me than Chrome, but that's because I have tab hoarding problem(2k tabs in Firefox right now).

On each tab, towards the right, you'll seen an X. If you click that, you can close a tab. Alternatively, you can use Ctrl-W keyboard shortcut. (Sorry!)

You can also middle-click the tab - that works for any tab, not just the current one.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by Jochim »

dylan604 wrote: post #67
emsixteen wrote: post #36

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I use it, but just don't like the devtools. Or moreso miss some things from Chrome/Edge.

I use the FF devtools daily, and for what I'm working on, it has everything I need to help me get the things I need done. Knowing that I'm not everyone and have plenty to learn, what things are missing from the devtools for you?

I use FF and prefer the devtools.

Chrome's ability to temporarily edit and save changes to JS sources through the debugger editor is fantastic though.

Other than that it's mostly just improvements to what FF already has.

Search could be made much more useful, especially network requests. Searching all request bodies/responses for a particular string/json/regex would be a huge step up.

You can search the response of individual requests but there's a UI bug that makes it look like your filter is no longer applied when you select the next one in the list.

Re: Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

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Post by WhereIsTheTruth »

insanitybit wrote: post #30
otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #28

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> Chrome still feels snappier I actually tested this and Firefox is significantly faster in rendering CSS and tables. (Not sure about complex Javascript.) Chrome's snappiness is mostly UI smoke and mirrors, actual sites load faster for me in Firefox.

Maybe FF should take some tips on those UI "smoke and mirrors". What feels faster is what users are going to go off of. For example, a page that fully loads in 1 second vs a page that incrementally loads in 1.5 seconds - the latter may feel faster because the time to start loading is faster.

Pretty much this, the overall feel of Chrome is snappier and the UI/UX is much better

I'm still not a fan of the latest UI revision on Firefox.. Chrome is able to make me forget there is an UI

I remember switching to Chrome because of a new UI update many years ago (performance too)

If Firefox manage to catch up performance wise, I might give it another try

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