Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again
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Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again
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Re: Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again
#2Regarding the Ad Tech section, I found value in the August 6th episode of Security Now titled "How Revoking!" where he's talking about 3rd-party cookies handling in Firefox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZx-W5qC_dc
Generally speaking, I'm sure it's difficult to find a general balance between privacy and usability, and I tend to want a purist viewpoint on blocking all 3rd-party cookies if I set Enhanced Tracking Protection to Strict. The above episodes explains why it's not 100% doing what we expect, which was troubling to hear!
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#3Is there something fundamental to the design of firefox that makes it use tons of memory and be prone to letting web pages peg a core at 100%? Every time I try to use firefox I have to quit because sometimes it runs like a 90s java applet.
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#4I don’t know if Firefox can be saved. I say that using Firefox for iOS right now.
I use Firefox because it’s not chrome, not because it’s good. Mozilla’s reputation is trash, Firefox is riddled with ancient bugs, and the bleeding hasn’t stopped.
I’d like to be wrong but I don’t see how.
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#5When a CEO diagnoses a public screw-up as a failure to educate the customer, the CEO is usually a loser, in both senses of the word.
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#6Is there something fundamental to the design of firefox that makes it use tons of memory and be prone to letting web pages peg a core at 100%? Every time I try to use firefox I have to quit because sometimes it runs like a 90s java applet.
I could exchange Firefox for Javascript and land on the same result... but people are going to be equally mad about it... the problem is not the browser.
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#7Is there something fundamental to the design of firefox that makes it use tons of memory and be prone to letting web pages peg a core at 100%? Every time I try to use firefox I have to quit because sometimes it runs like a 90s java applet.
It’s always been a GPU driver issue when I’ve seen a meaningful difference in performance between Chrome, Safari or Firefox. (I’ve seen such issues on everything from 128 thread xeons to one core atoms, and also on Arm).
One of them ends up falling back on some legacy thing when the other two don’t.
Once, I encountered two identical machines with the same version of debian. Chrome was unusably slow on one, and Firefox was unusably slow on the other. The other browser ran great.
Browsers and modern hardware are complicated.
shrug
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#8Is there any chance this relates to the recent anti-trust case against google?
I.e. making a attempt to appeal to user wants more since the majority of the money they make is at risk
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#9Is there something fundamental to the design of firefox that makes it use tons of memory and be prone to letting web pages peg a core at 100%? Every time I try to use firefox I have to quit because sometimes it runs like a 90s java applet.
it's frustrating to watch this, especially since Rust started off within Mozilla.
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#10Dump gecko and spider monkey and build a UI over webkit. A "firefox safari" that properly integrates system password management/account management and is convenient to use.
Firefox tech is dead and not modular. It has no use to anyone else and is a major waste of resources.