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I did give Firefox a _serious_ exclusive try for the past two months. It's terrible for heavy websites. Clickup, PivotalTracker, JIRA, Zeplin - the browser just

I did give Firefox a _serious_ exclusive try for the past two months. It's terrible for heavy websites. Clickup, PivotalTracker, JIRA, Zeplin - the browser just chokes on these sites and get janky. On Chrome they are butter smooth. I don't know what to do. I want to use anything other than Chrome, but I also want a sane workday and not have the browser jank my day up constantly. I would use Brave but they don't have a proper sync system yet. I switch between my imac, macbook pro and macbook air throughout the day, I need sync to be there.

latortuga 7y ago
This has got to be some bullshit shilling. I use all those sites all day every damn day with no problem in Firefox whatsoever.
- RonanTheGrey 7y ago
  Agree, those are my regulars and I solidly use Firefox for daily browsing and have never had those issues on those sites.
  - ehmish 7y ago
    nah i've had it too, granted it's on a 10 year old Xeon box I got for 40 bucks 4 years ago on an equipment auction at my work, but Asana and clickup are unusably slow, so when I last tried to switch for Firefox I'd just use them in a chrome instance ( where it was actually usable) ,the trouble was I would keep accidentally opening links etc in chrome and before I knew it I was using just the chrome browser.
- cortesoft 7y ago
  It might really depend on hardware and OS... we would have to know a lot more about both of your setups to determine why you guys are getting such different experiences.
- jklm 7y ago
  Is it possible this is a hardware-related issue?
- sergiotapia 7y ago
  No shilling. Verified slow as balls on imac 2017, macbook air, macbook pro 2017 and macbook pro latest. Using ff developer edition.
  - sjwright 7y ago
    I have an iMac 2015 and a MacBook (the one with the slow dual core ultrabook CPU). I use the normal edition of Firefox most of the time. I've never seen Clickup or JIRA run faster in any other browser.
    - kmlx 7y ago
      Jira was the fastest for me in Chrome. Firefox was slower, Safari was slowest.
  - evrenesat 7y ago
    It may be related with your screen resolution, I agree that Firefox has serious performance issues on Macs due this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 [Poor battery life on OSX with scaled resolution]
- dang 7y ago
  This breaks the site guidelines. They require you not to call names and not to make insinuations about astroturfing when commenting here. Would you mind reviewing and following them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Plenty of explanation of why we have that anti-insinuation rule is here for anyone who wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturfing https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
newscracker 7y ago
I'd suggest you try creating a new profile (after saving your bookmarks elsewhere) and start from there, installing your favorite extensions one by one. An uninstall and a fresh install could also be combined with this. Check the Firefox knowledge base for instructions on creating a new profile.
- lkbm 7y ago
  If you have Firefox sync on, you can also do a profile refresh from about:support and it will re-add your extensions via the sync. I did this last night and I think the only things I lost were userContent.css (which I'd backed up) and custom search engines. Yesterday, whenever I closed a window, it would freeze for 3+ seconds. After refreshing my profile, it's back in full working order again. EDIT: Oh yeah, I also lost all cookies (which is probably a good thing), notification settings, and my custom containers. tbh, the only thing that really matters is that I still have all my bookmark keywords. Everything else could have been wiped and I'd be fine.
BvqxAZmrY4ZM3uH 7y ago
This is a legitimate reasoning to keep using chrome. If for a person the benefit of better performance outweighs worse experience with ads, it's perfectly reasonable to use the thing that creates more value to you. I guess it will take more than hard limit on filters to force majority of people away from chrome. And Google is betting on that, for good reason too.

latortuga 7y ago

This has got to be some bullshit shilling. I use all those sites all day every damn day with no problem in Firefox whatsoever.

RonanTheGrey 7y ago
Agree, those are my regulars and I solidly use Firefox for daily browsing and have never had those issues on those sites.
- ehmish 7y ago
  nah i've had it too, granted it's on a 10 year old Xeon box I got for 40 bucks 4 years ago on an equipment auction at my work, but Asana and clickup are unusably slow, so when I last tried to switch for Firefox I'd just use them in a chrome instance ( where it was actually usable) ,the trouble was I would keep accidentally opening links etc in chrome and before I knew it I was using just the chrome browser.
cortesoft 7y ago
It might really depend on hardware and OS... we would have to know a lot more about both of your setups to determine why you guys are getting such different experiences.
jklm 7y ago
Is it possible this is a hardware-related issue?
sergiotapia 7y ago
No shilling. Verified slow as balls on imac 2017, macbook air, macbook pro 2017 and macbook pro latest. Using ff developer edition.
- sjwright 7y ago
  I have an iMac 2015 and a MacBook (the one with the slow dual core ultrabook CPU). I use the normal edition of Firefox most of the time. I've never seen Clickup or JIRA run faster in any other browser.
  - kmlx 7y ago
    Jira was the fastest for me in Chrome. Firefox was slower, Safari was slowest.
- evrenesat 7y ago
  It may be related with your screen resolution, I agree that Firefox has serious performance issues on Macs due this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 [Poor battery life on OSX with scaled resolution]
dang 7y ago
This breaks the site guidelines. They require you not to call names and not to make insinuations about astroturfing when commenting here. Would you mind reviewing and following them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Plenty of explanation of why we have that anti-insinuation rule is here for anyone who wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturfing https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

newscracker 7y ago

I'd suggest you try creating a new profile (after saving your bookmarks elsewhere) and start from there, installing your favorite extensions one by one. An uninstall and a fresh install could also be combined with this. Check the Firefox knowledge base for instructions on creating a new profile.

lkbm 7y ago
If you have Firefox sync on, you can also do a profile refresh from about:support and it will re-add your extensions via the sync. I did this last night and I think the only things I lost were userContent.css (which I'd backed up) and custom search engines. Yesterday, whenever I closed a window, it would freeze for 3+ seconds. After refreshing my profile, it's back in full working order again. EDIT: Oh yeah, I also lost all cookies (which is probably a good thing), notification settings, and my custom containers. tbh, the only thing that really matters is that I still have all my bookmark keywords. Everything else could have been wiped and I'd be fine.

BvqxAZmrY4ZM3uH 7y ago

This is a legitimate reasoning to keep using chrome. If for a person the benefit of better performance outweighs worse experience with ads, it's perfectly reasonable to use the thing that creates more value to you. I guess it will take more than hard limit on filters to force majority of people away from chrome. And Google is betting on that, for good reason too.