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Just to offer a sample point: Switched to Firefox Quantum when it came out, and never looked back. Never had a problem with any website I used on any of my mac

Just to offer a sample point: Switched to Firefox Quantum when it came out, and never looked back. Never had a problem with any website I used on any of my machines (which include the i7 16GB RAM work laptop, Core2Duo 3GB home desktop, and wife's old Thinkpad still running XP). Everything runs faster than Chrome, especially on the older machines, and I can comfortably open more tabs. Granted, my top 4 sites are probably HN, Reddit, Facebook and Youtube, and the first two aren't very demanding of the browser - but the links from these sites go all over the place, and I simply never had to launch another browser ever since. I find Firefox more feature-rich, and use the Reader View very often (especially at work, where visual clutter is the last thing I need on my monitors). MRU tab switching order out of the box is also great to have. </anecdata>

bmpafa 8y ago
The reader view is really something. One of those things I necer thought about til I used it, now I miss it whenever I'm in chrome.
zamalek 8y ago
> Article: Firefox doesn’t always work better than Chrome I assume the author isn't on Quantum because my experience (developer edition) matches yours. Firefox is mind bogglingly fast, which is precisely why I dumped Firefox for Chrome when Chrome first launched. My extensions seriously bloat memory usage; memory is cheap, time is priceless. Features and privacy are great, but the performance is simply so incomprehensibly far ahead (and we don't even have Servo yet). The omnibar is also default now and is more reliable than the extension - that was one crucial Chrome holdout for me.