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It performs significantly worse than Chrome for me on both desktop Linux and Android (although Chrome mobile not supporting extensions means I use Firefox anywa
by murderfs 5y ago
It performs significantly worse than Chrome for me on both desktop Linux and Android (although Chrome mobile not supporting extensions means I use Firefox anyway).
On privacy, I tentatively agree (but Mozilla's actions with Pocket etc. casts doubt), but Firefox is significantly behind Chrome when it comes to safety. Firefox's sandbox is substantially weaker (e.g. it's basically worthless on linux, because you can reach the X server from inside the "sandbox").
- Semaphor 5y ago> It performs significantly worse than Chrome for me on both desktop Linux and Android Not sure about Android, as I can’t remember how Chrome performs, but I regularly test things in Chrome on Desktop (or when sites are so third-party heavy, I can’t figure out a sensible way to enable sites), and on Windows the performance for both is indistinguishable, and that’s despite tons of extensions for FF and none for Chrome.
- boudin 5y agoI find Firefox less resource hungry and don't see much performance difference on Linux. Any resources on the sandbox weaknesses? I know it was the case a while back but I thought those issues had been addressed since. Firefox works really well on Wayland though, which addresses X's problems (and a few other regarding input and clipboard). Edit: found out the issue you mentioned: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129492 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129492 That's not great indeed. I guess that the only workaround for now is Wayland