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I'm curious, when did you try switching? What OS were you using? Do you have any examples of rough spots?

by goda90 7y ago

Santosh83 7y ago
Not parent but in my case at least Twitch consumes twice as much memory to stream a video in Firefox as compared to Chrome, and still manages to stutter more. But it is possible it could be something to do with my extensions (uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere) since they're installed on Firefox but not on Chrome.
- hackinthebochs 7y ago
  Agreed. Twitch is nearly unusable in firefox. I have to view all channels in 480p to keep it from freezing constantly. It still freezes occasionally.
  - jonny383 7y ago
    I feel like Twitch is equally responsible for fixing these stability issues.
  - worble 7y ago
    For twitch.tv I highly recommend the 'Alternate Player for Twitch.tv'[0] extension for both Firefox and Chrome. It runs a million times better in both browsers. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/
    - hackinthebochs 7y ago
      Tried it out and its like night and day! Thanks man
kettlecorn 7y ago
Chiming in with a simple example: Two finger pinch zooming on a Macbook stutters enormously in Firefox and is much smoother on Chrome. I use this feature all the time and it's made switching to Firefox difficult. Another example: I'm not a fan at all of how Firefox handles displaying huge amounts of tabs. Tiny arrows to scroll your tabs left and right is really a disorienting nuisance and I much prefer Chrome's system of making tabs smaller. I'm sure there's a way to change this, but I'd rather stay on the default path that they're actively iterating on and improving.
- bspammer 7y ago
  Just tried installing Firefox on my mac and pinch-to-zoom doesn't even seem to be enabled by default. I had to insert 4 obscure config values in the right place [1] to get it to even start working, and as you say it's very jerky. It jumps in 10% increments, rather than being a smooth transition. [1] http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110322102812402 http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011032210281240...
mattmaroon 7y ago
Roughly two months ago. Windows and Android. A few things that make it very tough for me: Autofilling. Chrome is just so much better and it's something I have to do a lot for my business. I'm always buying random parts from random places and a lot of them don't have the best-designed forms. Chrome handles them much better. There's just so much friction removed when you don't have to type all your info, especially on a phone, or pull out your credit card. I now have my credit card number memorized thanks to having to do so so much with Firefox. I had the same credit card for years, but with chrome I so rarely had to actually pull it out that I couldn't have told you more than the last 4 digits. Chrome's built in password management is just better at picking up logins and passwords too when forms aren't designed really well. I get a lot more performance issues with Firefox. I have to force close it sometimes. Never happened with chrome. It's not super frequent by any means but it happens. Lot of websites don't work in Firefox and I have to open them in Chrome which is likely not Firefox's fault the majority of the time, just developers not testing in Firefox, but still quite annoying to me.
- jazoom 7y ago
  True this. Autofilling just doesn't not work at all in Firefox for me. Chrome's was great.
- dual_basis 7y ago
  I had all these same issues as well except I run Linux. Tried to switch to Firefox 2 months ago, used it for about a month before going back. In addition to the issues above, I noticed terrible battery performance on my laptop and the fans would frequently spin up even with a single tab open.

I'm curious, when did you try switching? What OS were you using? Do you have any examples of rough spots?

by goda90 7y ago

I'm curious, when did you try switching? What OS were you using? Do you have any examples of rough spots?

Not parent but in my case at least Twitch consumes twice as much memory to stream a video in Firefox as compared to Chrome, and still manages to stutter more. But it is possible it could be something to do with my extensions (uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere) since they're installed on Firefox but not on Chrome.

hackinthebochs 7y ago
Agreed. Twitch is nearly unusable in firefox. I have to view all channels in 480p to keep it from freezing constantly. It still freezes occasionally.
- jonny383 7y ago
  I feel like Twitch is equally responsible for fixing these stability issues.
- worble 7y ago
  For twitch.tv I highly recommend the 'Alternate Player for Twitch.tv'[0] extension for both Firefox and Chrome. It runs a million times better in both browsers. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/
  - hackinthebochs 7y ago
    Tried it out and its like night and day! Thanks man

kettlecorn 7y ago

Chiming in with a simple example: Two finger pinch zooming on a Macbook stutters enormously in Firefox and is much smoother on Chrome. I use this feature all the time and it's made switching to Firefox difficult. Another example: I'm not a fan at all of how Firefox handles displaying huge amounts of tabs. Tiny arrows to scroll your tabs left and right is really a disorienting nuisance and I much prefer Chrome's system of making tabs smaller. I'm sure there's a way to change this, but I'd rather stay on the default path that they're actively iterating on and improving.

bspammer 7y ago
Just tried installing Firefox on my mac and pinch-to-zoom doesn't even seem to be enabled by default. I had to insert 4 obscure config values in the right place [1] to get it to even start working, and as you say it's very jerky. It jumps in 10% increments, rather than being a smooth transition. [1] http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110322102812402 http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011032210281240...

mattmaroon 7y ago

Roughly two months ago. Windows and Android. A few things that make it very tough for me: Autofilling. Chrome is just so much better and it's something I have to do a lot for my business. I'm always buying random parts from random places and a lot of them don't have the best-designed forms. Chrome handles them much better. There's just so much friction removed when you don't have to type all your info, especially on a phone, or pull out your credit card. I now have my credit card number memorized thanks to having to do so so much with Firefox. I had the same credit card for years, but with chrome I so rarely had to actually pull it out that I couldn't have told you more than the last 4 digits. Chrome's built in password management is just better at picking up logins and passwords too when forms aren't designed really well. I get a lot more performance issues with Firefox. I have to force close it sometimes. Never happened with chrome. It's not super frequent by any means but it happens. Lot of websites don't work in Firefox and I have to open them in Chrome which is likely not Firefox's fault the majority of the time, just developers not testing in Firefox, but still quite annoying to me.

jazoom 7y ago
True this. Autofilling just doesn't not work at all in Firefox for me. Chrome's was great.
dual_basis 7y ago
I had all these same issues as well except I run Linux. Tried to switch to Firefox 2 months ago, used it for about a month before going back. In addition to the issues above, I noticed terrible battery performance on my laptop and the fans would frequently spin up even with a single tab open.