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I used to use Firefox, but now I use Chrome. This means I can't use DownThemAll. I can't use Tab Wheel Scroll. On Windows I use an AutoHotkey script to simula

I used to use Firefox, but now I use Chrome. This means I can't use DownThemAll. I can't use Tab Wheel Scroll. On Windows I use an AutoHotkey script to simulate Tab Wheel Scroll. On Linux, it seems to work somehow. On Mac I have learned to live without it. On my phone, I get bombarded with useless ads all the time on Chrome since it has no uBlock. I have learned to live without it. Firefox seems to be better than Chrome at recognizing password fields for 'Save Password' feature. I have learned to live without it in Chrome. Why ? Firefox still feels slower in loading and showing web pages. It seems to freeze up occasionally. The new tab opening and scrolls have occasional jitters, sometimes sufficient to bring me out of my "flow". Firefox mobile is a disaster. It sometimes loads desktop versions on some sites. Once it failed to load a favorite site of mine completely, due to uBlock ( that has never happened on the desktop, on any browser ) I want to use Firefox, I do. But, I spend an extra-ordinary amount of my time on my browser. Only the best browser is 'good enough' for me

akjainaj 10y ago
>Why ? Firefox still feels slower in loading and showing web pages. It seems to freeze up occasionally. The new tab opening and scrolls have occasional jitters, sometimes sufficient to bring me out of my "flow". And what's even better if you point that out here they'll come with their completely artificial benchmarks to show you how Firefox is x1337 faster than the rest of browsers. Only that it isn't. And what really worries me is that they actually believe what they say, which would mean they are refusing to work on making Firefox faster, because they think Firefox is fast already.
- _Codemonkeyism 10y ago
  Funny thing, this could be -exactly- posted as a comment in the Scala to Go thread, where Scala developers insists it got so much faster, but "Only that it isn't." These two threads converging here feels like a collision of parallel universes :-)
- Ar-Curunir 10y ago
  Yes, because things like Electrolysis and Servo and Project Quantum are all imaginary...
  - akjainaj 10y ago
    The day I see Firefox shipping Servo I'll believe it. Knowing Mozilla, the project could be dropped at any time.
nachtigall 10y ago
> Why ? Firefox still feels slower in loading and showing web pages. It seems to freeze up occasionally. The new tab opening and scrolls have occasional jitters, sometimes sufficient to bring me out of my "flow". In my experience: You should "refresh" your Firefox, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227658 It help in my case.
bzbarsky 10y ago
> It sometimes loads desktop versions on some sites By which you mean "it doesn't send _exactly_ Chrome's UA string", right?

akjainaj 10y ago

>Why ? Firefox still feels slower in loading and showing web pages. It seems to freeze up occasionally. The new tab opening and scrolls have occasional jitters, sometimes sufficient to bring me out of my "flow". And what's even better if you point that out here they'll come with their completely artificial benchmarks to show you how Firefox is x1337 faster than the rest of browsers. Only that it isn't. And what really worries me is that they actually believe what they say, which would mean they are refusing to work on making Firefox faster, because they think Firefox is fast already.

_Codemonkeyism 10y ago
Funny thing, this could be -exactly- posted as a comment in the Scala to Go thread, where Scala developers insists it got so much faster, but "Only that it isn't." These two threads converging here feels like a collision of parallel universes :-)
Ar-Curunir 10y ago
Yes, because things like Electrolysis and Servo and Project Quantum are all imaginary...
- akjainaj 10y ago
  The day I see Firefox shipping Servo I'll believe it. Knowing Mozilla, the project could be dropped at any time.

nachtigall 10y ago

> Why ? Firefox still feels slower in loading and showing web pages. It seems to freeze up occasionally. The new tab opening and scrolls have occasional jitters, sometimes sufficient to bring me out of my "flow". In my experience: You should "refresh" your Firefox, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227658 It help in my case.

bzbarsky 10y ago

> It sometimes loads desktop versions on some sites By which you mean "it doesn't send _exactly_ Chrome's UA string", right?