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Not the original commenter, but Firefox has noticeably poorer performance on my MacBook pro 2018, especially on react-heavy sites like the AWS Console or Twitch

Not the original commenter, but Firefox has noticeably poorer performance on my MacBook pro 2018, especially on react-heavy sites like the AWS Console or Twitch.tv

chank 7y ago
Mostly this, performance is atrocious on a lot of sites I use. I also dislike its history management, download management, auto-complete, search in address bar functionality, pocket integration, and much more. I'm sure if I were forced to spend more time with it I could possibly find configurations to customize all those things in a way I like, but even using it for a few days the easily findable settings weren't flexible enough.
- mentalpiracy 7y ago
  I realize your comment says you’ve already switched back, but should you ever try Firefox again most of these can be tweaked directly from about:config
  - chank 7y ago
    I know, but not enough to my preferences at least from as far as I dug into those settings.
berti 7y ago
Both Chrome and Firefox are noticeably heavier than Safari on macOS. The most obvious sign of that is battery usage.
- bad_user 7y ago
  Here’s a tip for saving battery on MacOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18048844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18048844
dom96 7y ago
To me Chrome has poorer performance, especially when switching between tabs. I've seen Chrome take minutes to "load" a tab.
AsyncAwait 7y ago
Yeah, there's an issue on Mac's with scaled resolutions. Not a problem on other platforms, but not sure why it's so sticky on the Mac.
PascLeRasc 7y ago
Firefox has awful performance on nearly any web page for me (2014 Mac). Even its own settings page alone puts a core at 100%. I can get past bad font rendering and giving up pinch-to-zoom and not reading PDFs in the browser, but I can't give Firefox half my battery life. I'll use it on my work PC but it's still a huge waste of electricity.
- gpm 7y ago
  Huh? I read all my PDFs in firefox.

Not the original commenter, but Firefox has noticeably poorer performance on my MacBook pro 2018, especially on react-heavy sites like the AWS Console or Twitch.tv

chank 7y ago

Mostly this, performance is atrocious on a lot of sites I use. I also dislike its history management, download management, auto-complete, search in address bar functionality, pocket integration, and much more. I'm sure if I were forced to spend more time with it I could possibly find configurations to customize all those things in a way I like, but even using it for a few days the easily findable settings weren't flexible enough.

mentalpiracy 7y ago
I realize your comment says you’ve already switched back, but should you ever try Firefox again most of these can be tweaked directly from about:config
- chank 7y ago
  I know, but not enough to my preferences at least from as far as I dug into those settings.

berti 7y ago

Both Chrome and Firefox are noticeably heavier than Safari on macOS. The most obvious sign of that is battery usage.

bad_user 7y ago
Here’s a tip for saving battery on MacOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18048844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18048844

dom96 7y ago

To me Chrome has poorer performance, especially when switching between tabs. I've seen Chrome take minutes to "load" a tab.

AsyncAwait 7y ago

Yeah, there's an issue on Mac's with scaled resolutions. Not a problem on other platforms, but not sure why it's so sticky on the Mac.

PascLeRasc 7y ago

Firefox has awful performance on nearly any web page for me (2014 Mac). Even its own settings page alone puts a core at 100%. I can get past bad font rendering and giving up pinch-to-zoom and not reading PDFs in the browser, but I can't give Firefox half my battery life. I'll use it on my work PC but it's still a huge waste of electricity.

gpm 7y ago
Huh? I read all my PDFs in firefox.