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I'm not sure when it happened, but in the past few months I started noticing slower responsiveness in Chrome. Which is weird, because historically that was the

I'm not sure when it happened, but in the past few months I started noticing slower responsiveness in Chrome. Which is weird, because historically that was the type of thing I tolerated in Firefox. It looks like Firefox is the new speed champ on MacOS, at least among serious browsers. If Safari's WebExtension ecosystem actually progresses with Safari 15, that may be worth another shot, too.

the_jeremy 5y ago
I have the opposite behavior on my macbook pro - Chrome can handle videos at 2x speed just fine, but Firefox will stutter or go sound-only for a few seconds if it heats up at all.
- kibwen 5y ago
  On my Macbook, bizarrely, it's Safari that freaks out when watching videos at 2x speed, whereas Firefox handles them fine.
- Tagbert 5y ago
  Video handle really varies depending on how it was encoded and whether there is a hardware decoder available or not. YouTube is highly tuned to work well with Chrome and vis versa.
cwizou 5y ago
It's definitely not slow on macOS but for some reason the UI font just looks wrong to me on macOS and I can't quite put my finger on it. The font doesn't look system (maybe it is), and every element is a tad too small. Spacing between letters is also more cramped that on every other macOS app. I know doing cross OS development is hard but to me this is what's stopping me to move full time from Safari to Firefox on mac, the UI font just looks wrong (despite all the things I don't like in Safari like not having uBlock Origin and having to rely on a subpar extension with an app, or the terrible new Monterey UI).
- Antrikshy 5y ago
  My gripe with FF on Mac is the lack of support for autocorrect. While I can live without autocorrect, this also means my text expansions (stuff like shrug -> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) don't work in FF but work in basically any other text bo, since they use the same text replacement mechanism.
jeppesen-io 5y ago
I've noticed the same with Chrome feeling laggy comapred to Firefox on Linux and Android

the_jeremy 5y ago

I have the opposite behavior on my macbook pro - Chrome can handle videos at 2x speed just fine, but Firefox will stutter or go sound-only for a few seconds if it heats up at all.

kibwen 5y ago
On my Macbook, bizarrely, it's Safari that freaks out when watching videos at 2x speed, whereas Firefox handles them fine.
Tagbert 5y ago
Video handle really varies depending on how it was encoded and whether there is a hardware decoder available or not. YouTube is highly tuned to work well with Chrome and vis versa.

cwizou 5y ago

It's definitely not slow on macOS but for some reason the UI font just looks wrong to me on macOS and I can't quite put my finger on it. The font doesn't look system (maybe it is), and every element is a tad too small. Spacing between letters is also more cramped that on every other macOS app. I know doing cross OS development is hard but to me this is what's stopping me to move full time from Safari to Firefox on mac, the UI font just looks wrong (despite all the things I don't like in Safari like not having uBlock Origin and having to rely on a subpar extension with an app, or the terrible new Monterey UI).

Antrikshy 5y ago
My gripe with FF on Mac is the lack of support for autocorrect. While I can live without autocorrect, this also means my text expansions (stuff like shrug -> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) don't work in FF but work in basically any other text bo, since they use the same text replacement mechanism.

jeppesen-io 5y ago

I've noticed the same with Chrome feeling laggy comapred to Firefox on Linux and Android