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Forget about performance. Firefox still lags horribly behind in battery life.

• fauigerzigerk 6y ago
  Not for me, because Firefox's reader view stops the entire battery sucking JavaScript madness on the page I'm visiting whereas Safari doesn't.
• dmix 6y ago
  Firefox natively suspends unused tabs which dramatically improved my memory usage and battery life. Chrome has a similar extension but it's nice having it built in to the browser natively. If anything you could argue that FF is behind Chrome security-wise with their more limited sandboxing and some other memory protections. But performance is largely a non-issue.
• toyg 6y ago
  Everyone "lags behind" Safari in battery life on mac, unsurprisingly: a mono-platform app can pull tricks that multi-platform ones cannot. When comparing apples to apples, Firefox imho is actually lighter than Chrome on battery, at least on Macs.
  • npunt 6y ago
    Understandable from perspective of how apps are developed, but from the user perspective comparing Firefox on Mac to Safari on Mac is literally comparing software on Apples to software on Apples.