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Are you perhaps not using an adblocker and thereby being trapped into wrongly believing that the slowness induced by ad+tracking Javascripts is the fault of Fir

• csmpltn 5y ago
  I am using an adblocker.
• tehbeard 5y ago
  Let me give you another datapoint. My old uni laptop, an Intel T4400 with 4gb RAM. Both chrome and Firefox have adblock. Never ran in to a problem with Chrome, despite the wider internet calling it a memory hog. Firefox struggled after 4/5 tabs, couldn't even playback video on YouTube or Vimeo reliably.. Don't run into these issues on desktop, and the Android version seems somewhat competent. But I've lost a lot of trust in Mozilla the last few years thanks to middle management. Atleast with Google I know their motives and I'm not locked in to their platform relying on any particular proprietary thing they have.
  • abcd_f 5y ago
    For what it’s worth and based on a non-trivial sample set this is highly atypical.
    • shaan7 5y ago
      Yep. I rarely see Firefox lagging/unresponsive (~15 pinned + 3-4 normal tabs open). In the rare chances that it does, I get an option "This web page is slowing down Firefox" which lets me kill the tab and all is well again.
  • sp332 5y ago
    Poor video playback in one browser might mean that it's not configured to use the hardware decoder. I think performance there should be basically the same for video playback if they're configured the same way.