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0 pointsthrowaway2016a8y ago0 comments

My experience has been that Firefox was unusably slow on OS X and Linux for a long time and they lost a lot of users because of it. Now it is faster but it is difficult to woo people back.

And even if it is faster, there track record shows that they found doing a release that slows down a large portion of users was acceptable. Granted I doubt they still have that attitude, and i think they are more performance based now, but a lot of us left for Chrome and never looked back.

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wtetzner8y ago· 4 in thread

> and i think they are more performance based now, but a lot of us left for Chrome and never looked back.

And you don't have the same problem with Chrome? I've found Chrome to be a terrible resource hog lately, and sometimes I have to kill it to get my computer back to a usable state. And of course, I have to dig through all of the Chrome process and try to figure out which is the one that will take down the rest of them.

throwaway2016aOP8y ago

> And you don't have the same problem with Chrome? I've found Chrome to be a terrible resource hog lately

I'm OS X and I've had some CPU issues lately if I have a lot of tabs open but overall not nearly as many issues as when I finally decided to give up Firefox.

I actually downloaded Firefox lately and it seems pretty nice. If Chrome gets works I may consider it.

leggomylibro8y ago

I usually have a few hundred tabs open in Firefox without issue; it seems to do a good job of putting unused/old tabs to 'sleep' until you come back to them.

insulanus8y ago

> dig through all of the Chrome process and try to figure out which is the one that will take down the rest of them

To kill: pkill "Chrome"

To suspend: pkill -SIGSTOP "Chrome" To resume: pkill -SIGCONT "Chrome"

wtetzner8y ago

Thank you!

intopieces8y ago· 1 in thread

My work doesn't allow the latest version of FireFox, so after months of crashes and general unbearably slowness on MacOS I switched to UnGoogled Chromium. I wish I could go back to FF because I like Mozilla as an org, but it's not in the cards for my day to day.

thomastjeffery8y ago

> My work doesn't allow the latest version of FireFox

How so?

davesque8y ago

I tried using Firefox for a while recently (over the last month) and still found it unbearably slow as well as downright buggy in the way it handled and displayed certain pages. Was very disappointed by this since I really want to start using it again.

saiya-jin8y ago

Firefox is OK these days. As a user I couldn't care less about Google offering, specifically because of google. That company is creepy and its core mission is to be even more creepy.

On android, Firefox mobile is by far the best browser, since it allows (some) extensions, and you definitely need one - microBlock origin. No effin' way I am going to use their official browser, web is beyond useless with all the ads.

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