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FireFox is not an option. It is an order of magniturd slower than Chrome. Does anyone know anything about the memory usage of Edge?

shittyadmin 8y ago
You might want to try updating Firefox if you think it's an order of magnitude slower.
copperx 8y ago
It's 2019 now. Try Firefox again. For me it feels faster than Chrome. And it has a reader view. That's on Linux and on Windows. On Mac, I admit, Chrome feels faster. But you have Safari.
- pmoriarty 8y ago
  Firefox's speed depends a lot on which extensions you use. I use a bunch, like uBlock Origin, uMatrix, Tridactyl, Tree Style Tab, and Stylus, and Firefox slows down to a crawl for me when I have more than about 8 tabs open. Now, some might advise not to use extensions, but using extensions is half the reason that I use Firefox at all in the first place, as Firefox without extensions really sucks.
  - Narishma 8y ago
    > Firefox without extensions really sucks The only extension I use is uBlock Origin. I've never felt the need for anything else whether it's on Firefox or Chrome.
  - magicalhippo 8y ago
    I use uBlock Origin, uMatrix and Greasemonkey, and FireFox is nice and fast with several dozen tabs open for weeks at a time. Slack leaks memory like there's no tomorrow, but that's on Slack. I just close the Slack tab and force a full GC/CC cycle and I get my memory back. I'd do a binary search of sorts, disable half of the extensions and see if performance is still bad or not etc, to narrow it down to the offending extension(s).
viraptor 8y ago
At least in JS scenarios, the difference is nowhere near that. It's actually trading the first place with chrome between tests: https://arewefastyet.com/ https://arewefastyet.com/
andrepd 8y ago
>FireFox is not an option. It is an order of magniturd slower than Chrome. This is objectively false.
snapdangle 8y ago
Even at it's slowest, Firefox was never even close to an order of magnitude slower. Geek culture has zero loyalty, otherwise people would run the product that has moral integrity even if it costs them a few milliseconds in load times.
ionised 8y ago
> FireFox is not an option. It is an order of magniturd slower than Chrome. False. It's faster and lighter than Chrome on my machine.

shittyadmin 8y ago

You might want to try updating Firefox if you think it's an order of magnitude slower.

copperx 8y ago

It's 2019 now. Try Firefox again. For me it feels faster than Chrome. And it has a reader view. That's on Linux and on Windows. On Mac, I admit, Chrome feels faster. But you have Safari.

pmoriarty 8y ago
Firefox's speed depends a lot on which extensions you use. I use a bunch, like uBlock Origin, uMatrix, Tridactyl, Tree Style Tab, and Stylus, and Firefox slows down to a crawl for me when I have more than about 8 tabs open. Now, some might advise not to use extensions, but using extensions is half the reason that I use Firefox at all in the first place, as Firefox without extensions really sucks.
- Narishma 8y ago
  > Firefox without extensions really sucks The only extension I use is uBlock Origin. I've never felt the need for anything else whether it's on Firefox or Chrome.
- magicalhippo 8y ago
  I use uBlock Origin, uMatrix and Greasemonkey, and FireFox is nice and fast with several dozen tabs open for weeks at a time. Slack leaks memory like there's no tomorrow, but that's on Slack. I just close the Slack tab and force a full GC/CC cycle and I get my memory back. I'd do a binary search of sorts, disable half of the extensions and see if performance is still bad or not etc, to narrow it down to the offending extension(s).

viraptor 8y ago

At least in JS scenarios, the difference is nowhere near that. It's actually trading the first place with chrome between tests: https://arewefastyet.com/ https://arewefastyet.com/

andrepd 8y ago

>FireFox is not an option. It is an order of magniturd slower than Chrome. This is objectively false.

snapdangle 8y ago

Even at it's slowest, Firefox was never even close to an order of magnitude slower. Geek culture has zero loyalty, otherwise people would run the product that has moral integrity even if it costs them a few milliseconds in load times.

ionised 8y ago

> FireFox is not an option. It is an order of magniturd slower than Chrome. False. It's faster and lighter than Chrome on my machine.