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Chrome became so bloated and crap and slow that in 2020 I moved over to Firefox (which has been imperfect, but better), so my anecdata suggests that browsers do
by theodric 5y ago
Chrome became so bloated and crap and slow that in 2020 I moved over to Firefox (which has been imperfect, but better), so my anecdata suggests that browsers don't actually get faster overall, but ebb and flow as feature creep and optimization compete for dominance.
- MayeulC 5y agoTyping this on Midori Android, it feels faast! I was using Firefox until a few days ago, but I feel I should change. That's on a Galaxy S4, mind you. Dillo is blazing fast on desktop, but doesn't support https very well. It also doesn't support JavaScript, which isn't a big deal to me.
- art0rz 5y agoTo me it feels like bloated browser profiles makes the browsers sluggish. I get annoyed with how slow Chrome is, so I switch Firefox. After a while the Firefox profile gets bloated and I get annoyed and switch back to Chrome with a clean profile and it feels really quick again. Ad infinitum.
- mavhc 5y agoThe fix for 99% of firefox problems is: firefox -p, make a new profile
- pabs3 5y agoThe Firefox profile manager and Chrome temporary files would let you test this theory.
- ksec 5y agoI dont understand how profile could make such a difference but that is also my experience as well. Everything is fast in a clean profile.
- jd3 5y agoOn Firefox, if you have an unbelievably large number of entries in your History, Bookmarks, and/or Downloads (your Firefox "Library" — chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml), you could theoretically become limited by insert/update performance in Firefox's embedded sqlite, I believe.