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I use Firefox as my main browser at work and at home, but Firefox performance degrades as soon as I have 10 tabs opened. Not FF's entire fault though, a lot of
by yeukhon 9y ago
I use Firefox as my main browser at work and at home, but Firefox performance degrades as soon as I have 10 tabs opened. Not FF's entire fault though, a lot of my tabs are JIRA board so there are some stupid Javascript from plugins making the performance more worse. With Chrome, however, I was able to load over 100 tabs easily and I rarely get a crash... So when I need to load lots of tabs, I use Chrome. I still don't understand why. They both use multi-process now, so where is the bottleneck? But I try to stick to Firefox whenever possible because I like the browser.
The only issue with Chrome I have been having lately, despite not remembering the error message, is I often can't type search terms on the url field and then get search results from Google. I get an error message with a dinosaur telling me something broke. I tried deleting profiles and even reinstall Chrome, but no. I can reproduce this problem on two Macbooks I own, which makes my experience with Chrome now pretty bad considering I can't search directly from URL bar!
Also, while Firefox's devtool has improved a lot over the years, I can't seem to find certain features. For example, it's pretty simple to preserve logs under Network tab in Chrome, but where is it in Firefox? But to be fair, I also use Firefox devtools in cases I can't easily from Chrome like editing request in Firefox is simpler IMO. So it's a bit of pick and choose, depending on what I need to do.
I love Firefox (I interned at Mozilla before), I've done some contributions to Firefox, and I think the folks there have been doing a great job. But my honest opinion is we still have some serious battle to fight, especially in performance and plugin. I don't care much about syncing bookmarks myself though so Chrome's integration with Google account doesn't matter to me.
- 3131s 9y agoFirefox on Linux performs really well for me, even with 50-100 tabs open. However I have your same problem with not knowing how to preserve the network history between refreshes, that would be useful.
- yeukhon 9y agoDo you use Firefox from Mozilla, or do you use one of the forks?
- nine_k 9y agoFF with lots of tabs on OS X feels much more sluggish than FF with lots of tabs on Linux, on the very same hardware (MBP 2015). Different approaches to the UI toolkits might be showing.
- oculusthrift 9y agonot sure what it is but firefox seems to run perfectly on my macbook air but my friend with the MBP 15 always complains about it
- 3131s 9y agoFrom Mozilla. I have adblockers installed too which help a lot.
- prodmerc 9y agoHow do you deal with that many tabs in Chrome? I found it to be a nightmare, the tab buttons are small, you can't even see the titles. Typing a part of a URL you remember in the address bar dumps you to Google search instead of the actual URL. Those two reasons were the only thing keeping me from switching to Chrome when it was fast (apparently it isn't now)...
- yeukhon 9y agoI have used https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfeinjfmenlddahdjdmgpbokiacbbb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfein... and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo... But these days I just keep opening a new one... most of the time I am just searching for something on the Internet like documentations so going backward is not really always a requirements.
- sullyj3 9y agoI generally just use multiple windows. You can click on a tab, then shift click on a different one to select a section that corresponds to some particular task or train of thought, and then drag them all out into a separate window at once.
- alecco 9y agoTry a higher dom.ipc.processCount as others pointed out in this thread.
- yeukhon 9y agoI will, but https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/4t33v2/if_you_are_using_e10s_try_adjusting_domipcprocess/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/4t33v2/if_you_are_... I will see if that helps for a few days. Thanks.
- cpeterso 9y agodom.ipc.processCount = 4 will be the default value for Firefox 54 (now in the Firefox Beta channel), but I've used 999 without much problem. :)