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Firefox lost me for many years because it became unbearably slow. I switched to Chrome solely for it worked much faster (despite using more RAM), especially on

Firefox lost me for many years because it became unbearably slow. I switched to Chrome solely for it worked much faster (despite using more RAM), especially on my rather old Core 2 computers. Once they upgraded their engine a couple of years ago it became tolerable again but just adding some extensions I find essential slowed it noticeably again. As I have upgraded to modern Ryzen PCs I immdiately switched back to Firefox and am happy although some people still tell me y browser looks very slow once they see me using it. Using Firefox is a privilege many people just can't easily afford. Many people still tell me YouTube is too slow in Firefox but my experience shows a powerful PC solves this.

hoseja 5y ago
huh? FF quantum was faster than Chrome when it came out, don't know what the benchmarks are today but it's certainly competitive.
- foxpurple 5y ago
  I suspect half the experiences being shared in this thread are of a 10 year old version of FF
  - qwerty456127 5y ago
    As I have mentioned, my experience is about both: a 10 year old version of FF was crazy slow, Quantum is tolerable but still slower than Chrome, gets even much slower as soon as you install some extensions and still is uncomfortable to use on old PCs (e.g. 2013 MacBook Air). Chrome works perfectly fast on everything incl a >10yr old Core 2 Duo laptop. I am a huge Firefox fan and don't even mind some tolerable amount struggle but have to admit this. I once tried to migrate my girlfriend (who has the 2013 MacBook Air) to Firefox (Quantum). As she tried it she immediately told me she doesn't want it because it feels slow. Chrome apparently has some bug which makes eat up 100% of the CPU on the same machine often but works faster even when it does this. This still has to be addressed if we want Firefox to become more popular. "Just disable all the extensions" (mostly meaning featured extensions recommended by Mozilla, e.g. uBlock Origin) is not a good answer, neither is "buy a powerful modern computer".

hoseja 5y ago

huh? FF quantum was faster than Chrome when it came out, don't know what the benchmarks are today but it's certainly competitive.

foxpurple 5y ago
I suspect half the experiences being shared in this thread are of a 10 year old version of FF
- qwerty456127 5y ago
  As I have mentioned, my experience is about both: a 10 year old version of FF was crazy slow, Quantum is tolerable but still slower than Chrome, gets even much slower as soon as you install some extensions and still is uncomfortable to use on old PCs (e.g. 2013 MacBook Air). Chrome works perfectly fast on everything incl a >10yr old Core 2 Duo laptop. I am a huge Firefox fan and don't even mind some tolerable amount struggle but have to admit this. I once tried to migrate my girlfriend (who has the 2013 MacBook Air) to Firefox (Quantum). As she tried it she immediately told me she doesn't want it because it feels slow. Chrome apparently has some bug which makes eat up 100% of the CPU on the same machine often but works faster even when it does this. This still has to be addressed if we want Firefox to become more popular. "Just disable all the extensions" (mostly meaning featured extensions recommended by Mozilla, e.g. uBlock Origin) is not a good answer, neither is "buy a powerful modern computer".