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I disagree with this. Safari and Chrome are both noticeably better than Firefox on OSX. I'm a Firefox fanboy, still use it on OSX because it's important to me,
by cheeze 6y ago
I disagree with this. Safari and Chrome are both noticeably better than Firefox on OSX.
I'm a Firefox fanboy, still use it on OSX because it's important to me, but the amount of random pauses, crashes, etc is just painful on OSX. It's like none of the Firefox developers use it on OSX or something.
And before someone says "oh it's your extensions", that IMO leads to two talking points
1. It's 2020 and major extensions still cause memory leaks in Firefox. Debugging them isn't easy at all. Almost all of the resources say something like "Run in safe mode and see if it fixes things" and then lots of posts of "post your about:memory here and I'll analyze it." I'm a software engineer by trade and it's been difficult for me to diagnose...
2. Nah because I don't run any extensions on my OSX firefox install
- Yaggo 6y agoSorry for nitpicking, but it's 2020 and OS X has been called macOS since 2015 ;)
- colejohnson66 6y agoWell, if we’re nitpicking, it was 2016, not 2015 :) And wow. Has it really been that long? I thought it was like 2 years ago, so when I first saw your comment, I had to go check myself!
- mattl 6y agoIn places. In some places it's still called Mac OS X.
- mrguyorama 6y agoI've run nightly on crap macbooks for 3 years and had 0 of this experience. I run uBlock origin as one of my only extensions.