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Maybe Firefox is slow on Linux but on Windows I don't notice a difference between it and Chrome. If anything FF starts faster on my Win10 box. The UI is just as

Maybe Firefox is slow on Linux but on Windows I don't notice a difference between it and Chrome. If anything FF starts faster on my Win10 box. The UI is just as snappy and I vastly prefer FFs settings dialogs to the kid gloves one in Chrome. Also can't remember the last time FF crashed on me (and I usually have hundreds of tabs open for weeks/months on end). Dev tools are a toss up but I tend to use the ones in FF more than Chrome, probably simply out of habit. Once servo becomes mainline (and assuming it delivers on its promise) I can't see why anyone would choose anything other than FF. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ works for me Edit: I'm not big on extensions but do have a few installed: session manager, foxyproxy, one tab and fireshot.

octorian 9y ago
> Maybe Firefox is slow on Linux but on Windows I don't notice a difference between it and Chrome. I really think this is a big part of the discrepancy in opinions of performance here. In my own experience, Firefox on Linux just has sluggish responsiveness. It doesn't happen everywhere, and sometimes the effect feels cumulative (depending on how long the process has been running). I've also found the occasional website (usually forums) where the text input box is painfully sluggish in Firefox (for no good reason), while its just fine and dandy in Chrome. Now I've also run Firefox on Windows, where it seems quite snappy and I don't really have any performance complaints. (Of course there's also the part where "hip web designers" are now treating Chrome like the modern MSIE6, which probably affects "internal" sites more than public-facing ones. But that's a topic for rants elsewhere in this thread.)
- digi_owl 9y ago
  Do wonder if it has anything to do with their switch of GTK version "recently"...
driverdan 9y ago
FF is great on Windows but slow on OS X. I really wanted to use it but it was maybe 10x slower for heavy JS pages. The whole browser would hang all the time from JS. I still use it on Windows but had to switch back to Chrome on my MacBook.

octorian 9y ago

> Maybe Firefox is slow on Linux but on Windows I don't notice a difference between it and Chrome. I really think this is a big part of the discrepancy in opinions of performance here. In my own experience, Firefox on Linux just has sluggish responsiveness. It doesn't happen everywhere, and sometimes the effect feels cumulative (depending on how long the process has been running). I've also found the occasional website (usually forums) where the text input box is painfully sluggish in Firefox (for no good reason), while its just fine and dandy in Chrome. Now I've also run Firefox on Windows, where it seems quite snappy and I don't really have any performance complaints. (Of course there's also the part where "hip web designers" are now treating Chrome like the modern MSIE6, which probably affects "internal" sites more than public-facing ones. But that's a topic for rants elsewhere in this thread.)

digi_owl 9y ago
Do wonder if it has anything to do with their switch of GTK version "recently"...

driverdan 9y ago

FF is great on Windows but slow on OS X. I really wanted to use it but it was maybe 10x slower for heavy JS pages. The whole browser would hang all the time from JS. I still use it on Windows but had to switch back to Chrome on my MacBook.