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I find the current browsers landscape not great actually. I'm a long time FF user as my main browser but lately I find it anormaly slow and unresponsive on my m

by doe88 11y ago

I find the current browsers landscape not great actually. I'm a long time FF user as my main browser but lately I find it anormaly slow and unresponsive on my mac (using stable version of FF). I'm so bothered that for the first time I thought about switching to another browser but as I'm mindful about my privacy I don't want to use Chrome and also I'm not using Safari either because there are UI things I don't like and too few extensions available. So inertia, inertia, I'm keeping my FF but I'm not happy though.

s_kilk 11y ago
Try the developer edition of Firefox. I had the same problems with stable Firefox on OS X, it felt slow and unresponsive most of the time, and would regularly choke on js-heavy pages. Dev-edition feels much more performant to me, plus it gets new features sooner than stable.
- maccard 11y ago
  Was dev edition, or reinstalling Firefox (blanking your profile, adding, history etc) the improvement I wonder?
  - s_kilk 11y ago
    I did try blanking stable Firefox too, and still noticed a large improvement. I didn't do a detailed analysis of what was going on, so YMMV.
smt88 11y ago
On Windows and Linux, FF is faster for me than it's ever been. I wouldn't be surprised if your issue were caused by extensions or by OS X itself. The quality control for OS X has been spiraling down the drain for several years. I've had tons of bizarre, work-stopping bugs on OS X lately. I had to stop using it except to build apps.
- TillE 11y ago
  I've used Firefox on Windows and OS X recently. It's really slow compared to Chrome, especially if you have a bunch of tabs open.
- doe88 11y ago
  Of course it's hard to say, what I can tell you is I have not changed my hardware, this behavior is quite recent maybe since 1 or 2 versions back, I tried disabling extensions, I tried keeping a small number of open tabs on my main window (but I also must keep open tab groups with maybe a total of 30 tabs for things I'm working on), all that with no success. When I click on the button to close a tab I observe some latency to react and effectively close the tab. When tabs reorder on the left as tabs are closed I also observe latency and sluggishness and likewise with scroll on some sites.
  - nnethercote 11y ago
    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a... might be worth trying

by doe88 11y ago

s_kilk 11y ago

Try the developer edition of Firefox. I had the same problems with stable Firefox on OS X, it felt slow and unresponsive most of the time, and would regularly choke on js-heavy pages. Dev-edition feels much more performant to me, plus it gets new features sooner than stable.

maccard 11y ago
Was dev edition, or reinstalling Firefox (blanking your profile, adding, history etc) the improvement I wonder?
- s_kilk 11y ago
  I did try blanking stable Firefox too, and still noticed a large improvement. I didn't do a detailed analysis of what was going on, so YMMV.

smt88 11y ago

On Windows and Linux, FF is faster for me than it's ever been. I wouldn't be surprised if your issue were caused by extensions or by OS X itself. The quality control for OS X has been spiraling down the drain for several years. I've had tons of bizarre, work-stopping bugs on OS X lately. I had to stop using it except to build apps.

TillE 11y ago
I've used Firefox on Windows and OS X recently. It's really slow compared to Chrome, especially if you have a bunch of tabs open.
doe88 11y ago
Of course it's hard to say, what I can tell you is I have not changed my hardware, this behavior is quite recent maybe since 1 or 2 versions back, I tried disabling extensions, I tried keeping a small number of open tabs on my main window (but I also must keep open tab groups with maybe a total of 30 tabs for things I'm working on), all that with no success. When I click on the button to close a tab I observe some latency to react and effectively close the tab. When tabs reorder on the left as tabs are closed I also observe latency and sluggishness and likewise with scroll on some sites.
- nnethercote 11y ago
  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a... might be worth trying