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I have similar complaints with Firefox. It doesn't freeze my machine to the point of rebooting, but a whole lot of seeing MacOS's "rainbow beachball." Overall

I have similar complaints with Firefox. It doesn't freeze my machine to the point of rebooting, but a whole lot of seeing MacOS's "rainbow beachball." Overall it is just a clunky experience. And I can't run stuff I'm working on because they don't support communication with MIDI devices (they've been talking about it for years) I think a better solution for many of us is an un-Googled version of Chrome/Blink, such as Brave or maybe even Edge when it is ready. You CAN get the best of Chrome without the worst, and the more Google does these things, the more effort people will go to to make it easier to do so.

asark 7y ago
> It doesn't freeze my machine to the point of rebooting, but a whole lot of seeing MacOS's "rainbow beachball." Yikes, still? That exact thing happening way too often—with like a half-dozen very normal tabs open, and when FF wasn't even in focus—was what drove me first to Chrome (where I could open a stupid number of heavy tabs and not see problems as bad as FF), then later to Safari (for the double-digit-percentage better battery life than Chrome) on my Macbooks, and that was... wow, probably 2010 or so.
- acdha 7y ago
  It’s not normal — usually it’s caused by buggy extensions but even that improved when they dropped the legacy extension interface due to problems like that.