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I notice Firefox does not feel as responsive as Chrome is. On my reasonably powerful system, switching between tabs is slow, even slower when large photos load.

I notice Firefox does not feel as responsive as Chrome is. On my reasonably powerful system, switching between tabs is slow, even slower when large photos load. It's holding me back. I'm typing this from Vivaldi, because I'm constantly looking for a replacement that feels fast and I can have the few 4-5 extensions I typically use.

kevingadd 10y ago
Yeah, this is an unavoidable consequence of their (current) 1-process model for tabs. They have a system for running tabs in a process separate from the browser, but they don't currently split tabs out into multiple processes, so you can get lag on switching tabs. IIRC they are working on expanding this so that tabs are split across multiple processes, without using Chrome's resource-hungry Process Per Tab approach.
- dest 10y ago
  More info on multiprocess firefox: Electrolysis http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/22/multi-process-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/22/multi-process-firefox/
newscracker 10y ago
I'd suggest creating a new profile in Firefox and checking it again. I use Firefox with tons of tabs and don't notice any lag in tab switching. I also don't have multiprocess enabled automatically (when I tried it about a year ago or so it was slower, but it has improved quite a bit in my reading).
- Fifer82 10y ago
  Google never made me do anything with profiles. It just worked.
  - newscracker 10y ago
    Well, if there's one thing to always keep in mind about technology and software, many things can go wrong in different ways for different people. For me, Firefox has always "just worked" too, but a response like that to the GP would've been completely useless. For me, Google Chrome has always been a resource killer that's sluggish and consumes almost all system RAM (on 8GB total) with just 10 or 20 tabs. I see Firefox consuming a lot less with a few hundred tabs. While your response states your experience, it also sounds like you're meaning to say that Google Chrome is better solely because of your experience. So I don't see how such a response is helpful, overall.
hvidgaard 10y ago
Chrome is just as bad for me. I've installed extensions that suspends tabs I'm not using on both browsers and the experience is significantly better. Since I'm not seeing Chrome being clearly better than Firefox in my day to day, I use Firefox simply because of idealistic reasons.

kevingadd 10y ago

Yeah, this is an unavoidable consequence of their (current) 1-process model for tabs. They have a system for running tabs in a process separate from the browser, but they don't currently split tabs out into multiple processes, so you can get lag on switching tabs. IIRC they are working on expanding this so that tabs are split across multiple processes, without using Chrome's resource-hungry Process Per Tab approach.

dest 10y ago
More info on multiprocess firefox: Electrolysis http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/22/multi-process-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/22/multi-process-firefox/

newscracker 10y ago

I'd suggest creating a new profile in Firefox and checking it again. I use Firefox with tons of tabs and don't notice any lag in tab switching. I also don't have multiprocess enabled automatically (when I tried it about a year ago or so it was slower, but it has improved quite a bit in my reading).

Fifer82 10y ago
Google never made me do anything with profiles. It just worked.
- newscracker 10y ago
  Well, if there's one thing to always keep in mind about technology and software, many things can go wrong in different ways for different people. For me, Firefox has always "just worked" too, but a response like that to the GP would've been completely useless. For me, Google Chrome has always been a resource killer that's sluggish and consumes almost all system RAM (on 8GB total) with just 10 or 20 tabs. I see Firefox consuming a lot less with a few hundred tabs. While your response states your experience, it also sounds like you're meaning to say that Google Chrome is better solely because of your experience. So I don't see how such a response is helpful, overall.

hvidgaard 10y ago

Chrome is just as bad for me. I've installed extensions that suspends tabs I'm not using on both browsers and the experience is significantly better. Since I'm not seeing Chrome being clearly better than Firefox in my day to day, I use Firefox simply because of idealistic reasons.