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Unfortunately, Firefox makes my MacBook Pro frying-pan hot whenever a web page is a serious, JavaScript-heavy web app (e.g., Google Docs, Twitter, prob any sign
by SiVal 8y ago
Unfortunately, Firefox makes my MacBook Pro frying-pan hot whenever a web page is a serious, JavaScript-heavy web app (e.g., Google Docs, Twitter, prob any significant desktop app in web app form) or anything with a lot of moving images (video, D3, any sort of "visualization"). Chrome and Safari run cool and comfortable.
So, I would just use Safari, except that as a dev, I need the vastly superior dev tools, extensions, and customizability of Chrome and FF.
So now I have to juggle browsers, trying not to get burned by Google, burned in a whole different way by FF, and trying to get things done in Apple's "no preference settings for you, because Apple's preferences are all that matter" design ethos.
- lucideer 8y agoFirefox runs cool on my bottom of the range, pre-2018 Air, with a few exceptions: Slack, the new Gmail (not classic). The new Gmail interface pushed me back to the old days of native IMAP clients, and Slack runs hot on Chrome so I'm between a rock and a hard place there. Furthermore, we're discussing a major con of using Chrome in this thread, so I'd be happy to take a minor trade-off or two to avoid that (especially if that trade-off is partly down to Google crippling their own service perf-wise in non-Google browsers). What kind of sites are taxing Firefox other than the well-known offenders? Given you're on Pro and I've no issues with an Air, it's likely a GPU issue that could be remedied with some config tweaks.