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Firefox, on occasion, cannot play videos above 4fps until I restart it. After running for awhile, Firefox slows my entire system down to the point there is a 2
by com2kid 9y ago
Firefox, on occasion, cannot play videos above 4fps until I restart it.
After running for awhile, Firefox slows my entire system down to the point there is a 250ms-500ms delay for every key press.
Despite all this I keep trying to make FF my primary browser, but wow it is hard.
I'm actually using Opera as my day to day, it has hotkeys that are just a little bit better than Chrome's, backspace still does what I'm used to it doing (going back a page) and the "jump to last tab" hotkey is super appreciated.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoYour computer may have memory issues, I've seen similar symptoms before.
- com2kid 9y agoIt is possible, but I can run Opera with hundreds of tabs for days on end with no problem. With performance degradation over time, it is hard to determine if it is hardware slowly fading, or software bloat running its natural course. I should run a mem tester though. Fwiw I can load the same page up in Opera or Chrome and it will smoothly play, while FF trips over itself in the background.
- acqq 9y agoI saw the same behavior that you describe. The problem is, there are still serious bugs in the "old" (e.g. Gecko) code, not in the "newest and greatest" "new features" code. And just recently they fired exactly the developers fixing such bugs: https://www.cnet.com/news/layoffs-mozilla-taiwan-changes-firefox-work-in-asia/ https://www.cnet.com/news/layoffs-mozilla-taiwan-changes-fir... "Taiwan programmers working on Gecko, a core part of Firefox, lost their jobs, one person familiar with the layoffs said. That's global open-source work, in contrast to newer, regional projects coming from Taiwan"
- user-id 9y agoI also switched to Opera as a default web browser this year, Chrome not feeling nice to use as a daily driver anymore. Almost 10 years isn't a bad innings though. So far so good.