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I made the switch to FF 2 months ago after being a Safari zealot (for nearly 10-14 years). I did not notice any memory hogging (was an issue in past). I have no

I made the switch to FF 2 months ago after being a Safari zealot (for nearly 10-14 years). I did not notice any memory hogging (was an issue in past). I have not rebooted FF in 20+ days. I really enjoy the "container" concept in FF. (ymmv of course)

Rebelgecko 7y ago
The only downside is that FF battery life is much worse than Safari. Supposedly they're working on being smarter about GPU usage to improve this, but I haven't checked lately to see if it has made a difference.
- MaxLeiter 7y ago
  On newer versions (of Firefox Nightly), they use the native CoreAnimations library now for vastly improved battery life: https://twitter.com/whimboo/status/1168437524357898240 https://twitter.com/whimboo/status/1168437524357898240
  - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
    It's still a very long way from Safari on battery life. As is Google Chrome, by the way.
janfoeh 7y ago
I've used FF almost exclusively for a large chunk of the aughts, so there is some familiarity left. My main concern today is actually a matter of trust. Mozilla has had enough privacy-related debacles and questionable decisions that after each update, there is a lingering doubt in the back of my head whether I need to crawl through some settings again or worse, edit obscure config keys to keep it from doing what it shouldn't have been doing in the first place. It's the same feeling I have after a Windows update, albeit to a lesser extent. I used to be a huge advocate for Firefox. My name is one of the many thousands of donors in their NYT ad from 2004. It pains me to say that these days, Firefox feels somewhat user hostile. If I do find myself leaving Safari, it's merely the least-bad choice from a continuously shrinking field of options.