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Have you given Firefox another shot during the past year? I agree that it used to be terrible, (as in bloated and buggy and slow) but the work they've been doin

Have you given Firefox another shot during the past year? I agree that it used to be terrible, (as in bloated and buggy and slow) but the work they've been doing with servo and quantum has really, really paid off. It really is a whole new experience. I don't do webdev, so I can't really comment about that. I agree wrt edge being terrible and not being willing to pay Apple prices.

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misterhtmlcss 8y ago
So I'm a Firefox user. Went back for reasons everyone here already knows; lots of privacy issues. I use a VPN too. Anyway I switched to Firefox on my computers and mobile system. I use that VPN to try limit Google's tracking of me and I use duckduckgo for the same reason. Long story short I just switched back to chrome on my Android, because Firefox has kinda stopped working. I used to be able to keep 100 tabs open, not I can't even keep 1 open in the background. When I go back it just forgets what it was and won't refresh. I click refresh and it shows it's refreshing, but then nothing happens. Nothing I can do. I'm reading some or I see a great article and I open it right away in a FF tab for later. I go back it doesn't load. Then I can't reset/restart it, because it won't die and then it stops syncing, etc. It's really really bad. Sadly this wasn't the case when I decided to switch about 8 months back, this is only in the last 60 days. I'll keep using Firefox for now on my desktop, but honestly I really rely on profiles and sync across profiles, which is a pain to get around on FF as it is, but now it's a big burden I can't really see my way around. Too bad, but honestly I need a reliable tool more than I need privacy at this stage.
- tlow 8y ago
  Interesting extreme user, would be interested to learn more about how you compute.
  - misterhtmlcss 8y ago
    Happy to connect anytime and share. I'm on most platforms with this handle.
- everybodyknows 8y ago
  I was seeing similar symptoms. Fixed by setting cookies and all other state except bookmarks, one or two others, to clear upon browser exit.
askmike 8y ago
I do some webdev (work with APIs & frontend stuff like react, vue). The firefox debugger is different. After an adjustment period I got used to them just fine and actually prefer some parts (like the network tab).
pcr0 8y ago
I've used Firefox 55-62 and I switched back to Chrome recently. Quantum was a great improvement, but it is still too buggy for me and it's gone downhill somewhere in the past few months * Uses 30-40% CPU constantly on my Ubuntu laptop, causing the entire system to freeze. * Slow on JS-heavy apps like JIRA, Gmail, Google docs. * Firefox Android randomly decides to stop loading web pages, requiring a force quit and restart. * Firefox Android bugged out while writing this comment, the text I typed would appear at a specific location, regardless of where I put the cursor. This and various other HTML input bugs require me to restart the browser again and again.

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misterhtmlcss 8y ago

So I'm a Firefox user. Went back for reasons everyone here already knows; lots of privacy issues. I use a VPN too. Anyway I switched to Firefox on my computers and mobile system. I use that VPN to try limit Google's tracking of me and I use duckduckgo for the same reason. Long story short I just switched back to chrome on my Android, because Firefox has kinda stopped working. I used to be able to keep 100 tabs open, not I can't even keep 1 open in the background. When I go back it just forgets what it was and won't refresh. I click refresh and it shows it's refreshing, but then nothing happens. Nothing I can do. I'm reading some or I see a great article and I open it right away in a FF tab for later. I go back it doesn't load. Then I can't reset/restart it, because it won't die and then it stops syncing, etc. It's really really bad. Sadly this wasn't the case when I decided to switch about 8 months back, this is only in the last 60 days. I'll keep using Firefox for now on my desktop, but honestly I really rely on profiles and sync across profiles, which is a pain to get around on FF as it is, but now it's a big burden I can't really see my way around. Too bad, but honestly I need a reliable tool more than I need privacy at this stage.

tlow 8y ago
Interesting extreme user, would be interested to learn more about how you compute.
- misterhtmlcss 8y ago
  Happy to connect anytime and share. I'm on most platforms with this handle.
everybodyknows 8y ago
I was seeing similar symptoms. Fixed by setting cookies and all other state except bookmarks, one or two others, to clear upon browser exit.

askmike 8y ago

I do some webdev (work with APIs & frontend stuff like react, vue). The firefox debugger is different. After an adjustment period I got used to them just fine and actually prefer some parts (like the network tab).

pcr0 8y ago

I've used Firefox 55-62 and I switched back to Chrome recently. Quantum was a great improvement, but it is still too buggy for me and it's gone downhill somewhere in the past few months * Uses 30-40% CPU constantly on my Ubuntu laptop, causing the entire system to freeze. * Slow on JS-heavy apps like JIRA, Gmail, Google docs. * Firefox Android randomly decides to stop loading web pages, requiring a force quit and restart. * Firefox Android bugged out while writing this comment, the text I typed would appear at a specific location, regardless of where I put the cursor. This and various other HTML input bugs require me to restart the browser again and again.