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To 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
by art0rz 5y ago
To 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.