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> "hot pile of garbage in terms of performance, power usage, and scrolling." Thing is, it is not. On Chrome I regularly had unresponsive pages that once cl

> "hot pile of garbage __in terms of performance, power usage, and scrolling__." Thing is, it is not. On Chrome I regularly had unresponsive pages that once cleared led to all tabs being closed, and it happened more often when I had more tabs open, the critical number is 10-12. Once you are over that limit, expect "App stopped responding" modal. On Firefox, I currently have 36 open tabs, and it works without any slowdowns. In Chrome, if start typing something in a webpage, open another page to do some fact-checking, go back to the first page, and see all my typed text gone. On Firefox, I do this all the time, open different apps, and all my tabs and their contents are safe (with the exception of private tabs, sadly). Power usage is about the same, scrolling is also fast enough for me (I am aware it does render fonts in lo-res while scrolling, but I only learned about this in an online discussion about 'horrible font rendering', never noticing it myself in more than 6 months of usage at the time. So no, I don't agree with your assessment of Firefox as a "hot pile of garbage". I think it is a great mobile browser, and I think it will get even better. YMMV, of course, but I'm very happy with Firefox and have no plans of going back.

zamadatix 7y ago
To clarify, when I said"Even most Firefox communities agree FF on Android is hot pile of garbage in terms of performance, power usage, and scrolling." and provided independent quantitative comparisons & community discussions as example I wasn't implying anything about your particular experience with Chrome(???) and reasons you decided to use Firefox. When I claimed the Firefox Preview rewrite is primarily about fixing these above issues I'm not referring to whether or not you personally feel it's related to the performance of the existing version rather things like Firefox blog posts and related discussions around it say it is. To reiterate: When I mention power/performance I'm referring to the benchmarks showing it's last not whether or not I personally think it feels fast and when I mention the Firefox communities common opinion I'm not referring to your personal experiences or whether or not you personally found Chrome worse in the same regard. Also I'd like to point out once more something I've already pointed out: At no point have I said or Firefox on Android as a whole is a hot pile of garbage nor have I mentioned anything about Chrome being better/worse/relevant. Please stop saying I have and particularly please stop using cut off quotes to imply I did. It's not what I was talking about and, more importantly, it's not even the opinion I hold.

> "hot pile of garbage __in terms of performance, power usage, and scrolling__." Thing is, it is not. On Chrome I regularly had unresponsive pages that once cl

zamadatix 7y ago

To clarify, when I said"Even most Firefox communities agree FF on Android is hot pile of garbage in terms of performance, power usage, and scrolling." and provided independent quantitative comparisons & community discussions as example I wasn't implying anything about your particular experience with Chrome(???) and reasons you decided to use Firefox. When I claimed the Firefox Preview rewrite is primarily about fixing these above issues I'm not referring to whether or not you personally feel it's related to the performance of the existing version rather things like Firefox blog posts and related discussions around it say it is. To reiterate: When I mention power/performance I'm referring to the benchmarks showing it's last not whether or not I personally think it feels fast and when I mention the Firefox communities common opinion I'm not referring to your personal experiences or whether or not you personally found Chrome worse in the same regard. Also I'd like to point out once more something I've already pointed out: At no point have I said or Firefox on Android as a whole is a hot pile of garbage nor have I mentioned anything about Chrome being better/worse/relevant. Please stop saying I have and particularly please stop using cut off quotes to imply I did. It's not what I was talking about and, more importantly, it's not even the opinion I hold.