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Yep, this hasn't been my experience at all (quite the opposite). I've been reading this FUD for as long as Chrome has been around (10 years?), and when you ask

Yep, this hasn't been my experience at all (quite the opposite). I've been reading this FUD for as long as Chrome has been around (10 years?), and when you ask the person for concrete numbers, all you get back is "I don't know, it just feels like it". I stopped engaging at this point. Edit: not to mention that you can configure the number of webrender processes Firefox uses to render web pages. If you have a fast enough processor, just set it to one or two and call it a day. Chrome uses a more complicated algorithm based on the source domain and the tab "dependency" tree. You have pretty much zero control over this.

Synaesthesia 7y ago
When I first used Chrome in the beta, it surpassed every browser in performance, from launch time to new tab performance etc. I don’t feel that’s the case anymore. Chrome is a lot more bloated and Firefox has made a lot of strides. I don’t heavily use tabs like 50+ but people who do say Firefox uses less RAM. Either way it’s fast enough now for me not to have any performance complaints.
mattmanser 7y ago
They admitted it themselves, put out blog posts about it. They've been putting out blog posts over the last 2 years specifically talking about the performance fixes they've put in. Firefox themselves have admitted it's not FUD. They acknowledged it was a real problem. It is pretty fast now, but a few years ago (at most 4), it was bloody awful.
zapzupnz 7y ago
> all you get back is "I don't know, it just feels like it". I stopped engaging at this point. Good job you don't work in user experience design, then, because how things feel to people is a huge part of that. If software feels bad to use, people won't use it, simple as that. No amount of haughtiness from your high horse will change that.
- zapzupnz 7y ago
  https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/performance-matters/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/performance-matters/ was a good article that I'm sure came up in HN about two weeks ago that covers this very point. It pays not to be dismissive about peoples' feelings when it comes to software, particularly around speed; they do matter.
distant_hat 7y ago
I use both because my company is a Google shop and Google sites do work better on Chrome. e.g., for quite a while videos in Google Drive wouldn't play on Firefox. When having a similar number of open tabs and similar sites Firefox is always about 3-5x the CPU usage for Chrome.

Synaesthesia 7y ago

When I first used Chrome in the beta, it surpassed every browser in performance, from launch time to new tab performance etc. I don’t feel that’s the case anymore. Chrome is a lot more bloated and Firefox has made a lot of strides. I don’t heavily use tabs like 50+ but people who do say Firefox uses less RAM. Either way it’s fast enough now for me not to have any performance complaints.

mattmanser 7y ago

They admitted it themselves, put out blog posts about it. They've been putting out blog posts over the last 2 years specifically talking about the performance fixes they've put in. Firefox themselves have admitted it's not FUD. They acknowledged it was a real problem. It is pretty fast now, but a few years ago (at most 4), it was bloody awful.

zapzupnz 7y ago

> all you get back is "I don't know, it just feels like it". I stopped engaging at this point. Good job you don't work in user experience design, then, because how things feel to people is a huge part of that. If software feels bad to use, people won't use it, simple as that. No amount of haughtiness from your high horse will change that.

zapzupnz 7y ago
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/performance-matters/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/performance-matters/ was a good article that I'm sure came up in HN about two weeks ago that covers this very point. It pays not to be dismissive about peoples' feelings when it comes to software, particularly around speed; they do matter.

distant_hat 7y ago

I use both because my company is a Google shop and Google sites do work better on Chrome. e.g., for quite a while videos in Google Drive wouldn't play on Firefox. When having a similar number of open tabs and similar sites Firefox is always about 3-5x the CPU usage for Chrome.