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I swear this conversation is as old as time --- or at least Firefox & Chrome. person 1: "Firefox is slow now i'm moving back to Chrome" person 2: "interesting
by update 11y ago
I swear this conversation is as old as time --- or at least Firefox & Chrome.
person 1: "Firefox is slow now i'm moving back to Chrome"
person 2: "interesting! I find the complete opposite and am moving back to Firefox!"
:)
- jrcii 11y agoI'm switching to Netscape.
- proactivesvcs 11y agoAnd seemingly few people trying to diagnose why. Particularly when it's specific behaviour / sites that are slow.
- thenomad 11y agoYou're making some assumptions there. It may also be that they have tried to diagnose why, haven't managed to find anything in an hour or so, and feel that their time could probably be more productively used, post browser switch, elsewhere. (That's the case for me with FF at the moment, anyway.)
- Joeri 11y agoThose people should throw away and recreate their profile, including the server-side backup, which is exactly what switching browsers does.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- SquareWheel 11y agoIt often seems like this is because <current browser> has dozens of old, forgotten extensions running in the background. They suck up memory and generally slow things down. Switching to <new browser> erases this problem! For a few years, anyway... And then the cycle repeats.
- update 11y agoI just did a clean install of OS X El Capitan and within an hour it was obvious that Chrome was better at managing memory. [extensions: UBlock Origin, Ghostery] Personally, I think the browsers actually do beat each other in performance every couple of months. i.e. Chrome Version 49.0.2623.87 (64-bit) is better than (current firefox version) but next month it'll be the reverse.