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Care to give any examples? I am not having any issues at all. Not only that, but I don't feel like FF is getting in my way somehow and that I should try a diffe

Care to give any examples? I am not having any issues at all. Not only that, but I don't feel like FF is getting in my way somehow and that I should try a different browser.

anotherhue 4y ago
Google Maps and Twitter are those that spring to mind. Obviously JS heavy.
- dugite-code 4y ago
  What issues do you experience? I can't tell that anything is wrong with either of them on firefox
  - anotherhue 4y ago
    'Finish' time from the network tabs in the respective debuggers for Google maps Brave: 8.46s Firefox: 26.91s Same machine, an older thinkpad (i5-6300U). I posit that the perf differences may be masked by newer hardware.
    - dugite-code 4y ago
      Well I can't say I have ever experienced performance quite that bad myself. On my i7-2700K desktop I'm only seeing about 6s-7s each. Kind of hard to tell when maps is really finished loading though.
- Ayesh 4y ago
  Google Maps, I can confirm. It works, but it's noticably slow on Firefox. Tiles appear a tab bit slower, and street view navigation takes a fraction of a second to respond. It didn't stop me from using Firefox, but I can absolutely understand if someone finds it as a deal breaker if they use Google maps often.
- 3np 4y ago
  If you're mostly reading on Twitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter I share the experience with Maps, though I never see it these days as the G gets its own ungoogled-chromium sandbox and don't get to play with other domains here anyway.
- deleted 4y ago
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thayne 4y ago
MS Teams video and voice doesn't work at all in Firefox. Google "gadgets" don't work in mobile Firefox unless you spoof the user agent. There are also a handful of other sites I've run into where certain functionality only works in chrome based browsers. Sometimes, spoofing the user agent is enough to get it working in firefox.
- simfree 4y ago
  Video and voice worked last I tested so long as I spoofed a Firefox Windows UA rather than Firefox Linux...
- mccorrinall 4y ago
  If video and sound don’t work in firefox it sounds more like a microsoft issue than a firefox issue. Webcam and Microphone APIs are following the standard and are well documented on MDN. Sounds like user agent / window.navigator sniffing in order to block the browser. Classic microsoft. They will never change.
  - thayne 4y ago
    Oh, it's absolutely Microsoft's fault. In this case they are using (or at least were) pre-standard chrome specific apis. The problem isn't that Firefox is bad. It's that many site are designed specifically for chrome, and they don't bother testing against Firefox. And for the average user, all they really notice is thay some sites don't work in Firefox.
    - sbuk 4y ago
      Which I what many here who worked through the IE dominance have been warning against - yet the only thing we hear is that other browsers are the “new IE”.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  >Google "gadgets" don't work in mobile Firefox unless you spoof the user agent. how is that firefox problem if the service is actively hostile towards firefox?
alfiedotwtf 4y ago
Discord is broken on Firefox. It's fast when you restart it, but over a few days it turns into a slog to the point where if you click on a different channel, it takes over 20 seconds sometimes to load. Then when you type a message, you can only type about 5 characters before it locks up for another 20 seconds. If you look on the mozilla bugtracker, there are many people having this same issue
- labster 4y ago
  Yeah, I’ve had this happen too, but all you need to do is refresh the tab. Not exactly worth writing home about.
  - cpeterso 4y ago
    If you would like to write home about this Discord problem, please consider filing Bugzilla bug report with a memory log from Firefox’s about:memory page and a performance profile using the Firefox Profiler: https://profiler.firefox.com/ https://profiler.firefox.com/ A profile can make a bug with vague or difficult steps to reproduce surprisingly actionable.
- sph 4y ago
  I have a similar problem with the Electron version of Discord on Linux. So I use it in a tab on Firefox. Much smoother.
mmsimanga 4y ago
My bank's internet banking page to pay multiple beneficiaries pages is a jumbled mess in Firefox. I haven't bothered to check why but I am guessing it's some grid layout issue. I did write to bank highlighting the issue. It's been over a year and still issue persists so I just switch to Chromium for internet banking.
- cpeterso 4y ago
  When page layout is so broken, it’s often an ad blocker add-on issue. Maybe try testing your bank website with with add-ons disabled.
dankwizard 4y ago
Last time I played on Chess.com, Firefox only had access to Stockfish 11 but Chromium browsers had access to Stockfish 15.
vladvasiliu 4y ago
I do have some sites which are consistently slower on Firefox than on Chrome. Chrome (and Edge) just feel all-round snappier (at least when "new", ie with few tabs open). The difference is not enough for me to switch my daily driver, though. Things that come to mind that I use often: * AWS console * Google Maps * Confluence Hell, even the front page of Hacker News loads a bit faster on Chromium than on Firefox. Sure, the difference is negligible in absolute terms, but still. I get around 5-600 ms for Chromium, and around 8-900 for Firefox. Both running on X11/Linux 5.19-zen on a Ryzen 5650U with 32 GB of RAM. I haven't used Chrome intensively in a long while, but I seem to me remember at the time (many years ago, on a Mac) it would slow to a crawl after a few days with many open tabs. I don't have any such issue with Firefox on Linux.
- cycomanic 4y ago
  I just tried on my mobile. Chrome is much slower. Firefox is sub second, while chrome was a noticeable wait. I actually checked if I didn't have connection issues and opened a new private tab in Firefox to check.
- bambax 4y ago
  Google Maps actually works better for me on FF than on Chrome. For some reason earth view won't launch on Chrome while it never stopped working on FF.
- happymellon 4y ago
  Now I have to object here. AWS Console being completely stateful with its accounts and roles is only usable in Firefox with Containers. And as for Google Maps I don't see any difference between Chrome and Firefox. I use Confluence for work, and so have to use Chrome. It's slow and terrible everywhere.
piceas 4y ago
Jitsi meet has had trouble. Not sure who is at fault though.
- cycomanic 4y ago
  That is like almost 2 years ago (as a side note they also had issues with safari).

Care to give any examples? I am not having any issues at all. Not only that, but I don't feel like FF is getting in my way somehow and that I should try a different browser.

anotherhue 4y ago

Google Maps and Twitter are those that spring to mind. Obviously JS heavy.

dugite-code 4y ago
What issues do you experience? I can't tell that anything is wrong with either of them on firefox
- anotherhue 4y ago
  'Finish' time from the network tabs in the respective debuggers for Google maps Brave: 8.46s Firefox: 26.91s Same machine, an older thinkpad (i5-6300U). I posit that the perf differences may be masked by newer hardware.
  - dugite-code 4y ago
    Well I can't say I have ever experienced performance quite that bad myself. On my i7-2700K desktop I'm only seeing about 6s-7s each. Kind of hard to tell when maps is really finished loading though.
Ayesh 4y ago
Google Maps, I can confirm. It works, but it's noticably slow on Firefox. Tiles appear a tab bit slower, and street view navigation takes a fraction of a second to respond. It didn't stop me from using Firefox, but I can absolutely understand if someone finds it as a deal breaker if they use Google maps often.
3np 4y ago
If you're mostly reading on Twitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter I share the experience with Maps, though I never see it these days as the G gets its own ungoogled-chromium sandbox and don't get to play with other domains here anyway.
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thayne 4y ago

MS Teams video and voice doesn't work at all in Firefox. Google "gadgets" don't work in mobile Firefox unless you spoof the user agent. There are also a handful of other sites I've run into where certain functionality only works in chrome based browsers. Sometimes, spoofing the user agent is enough to get it working in firefox.

simfree 4y ago
Video and voice worked last I tested so long as I spoofed a Firefox Windows UA rather than Firefox Linux...
mccorrinall 4y ago
If video and sound don’t work in firefox it sounds more like a microsoft issue than a firefox issue. Webcam and Microphone APIs are following the standard and are well documented on MDN. Sounds like user agent / window.navigator sniffing in order to block the browser. Classic microsoft. They will never change.
- thayne 4y ago
  Oh, it's absolutely Microsoft's fault. In this case they are using (or at least were) pre-standard chrome specific apis. The problem isn't that Firefox is bad. It's that many site are designed specifically for chrome, and they don't bother testing against Firefox. And for the average user, all they really notice is thay some sites don't work in Firefox.
  - sbuk 4y ago
    Which I what many here who worked through the IE dominance have been warning against - yet the only thing we hear is that other browsers are the “new IE”.
2Gkashmiri 4y ago
>Google "gadgets" don't work in mobile Firefox unless you spoof the user agent. how is that firefox problem if the service is actively hostile towards firefox?

alfiedotwtf 4y ago

Discord is broken on Firefox. It's fast when you restart it, but over a few days it turns into a slog to the point where if you click on a different channel, it takes over 20 seconds sometimes to load. Then when you type a message, you can only type about 5 characters before it locks up for another 20 seconds. If you look on the mozilla bugtracker, there are many people having this same issue

labster 4y ago
Yeah, I’ve had this happen too, but all you need to do is refresh the tab. Not exactly worth writing home about.
- cpeterso 4y ago
  If you would like to write home about this Discord problem, please consider filing Bugzilla bug report with a memory log from Firefox’s about:memory page and a performance profile using the Firefox Profiler: https://profiler.firefox.com/ https://profiler.firefox.com/ A profile can make a bug with vague or difficult steps to reproduce surprisingly actionable.
sph 4y ago
I have a similar problem with the Electron version of Discord on Linux. So I use it in a tab on Firefox. Much smoother.

mmsimanga 4y ago

My bank's internet banking page to pay multiple beneficiaries pages is a jumbled mess in Firefox. I haven't bothered to check why but I am guessing it's some grid layout issue. I did write to bank highlighting the issue. It's been over a year and still issue persists so I just switch to Chromium for internet banking.

cpeterso 4y ago
When page layout is so broken, it’s often an ad blocker add-on issue. Maybe try testing your bank website with with add-ons disabled.

dankwizard 4y ago

Last time I played on Chess.com, Firefox only had access to Stockfish 11 but Chromium browsers had access to Stockfish 15.

vladvasiliu 4y ago

I do have some sites which are consistently slower on Firefox than on Chrome. Chrome (and Edge) just feel all-round snappier (at least when "new", ie with few tabs open). The difference is not enough for me to switch my daily driver, though. Things that come to mind that I use often: * AWS console * Google Maps * Confluence Hell, even the front page of Hacker News loads a bit faster on Chromium than on Firefox. Sure, the difference is negligible in absolute terms, but still. I get around 5-600 ms for Chromium, and around 8-900 for Firefox. Both running on X11/Linux 5.19-zen on a Ryzen 5650U with 32 GB of RAM. I haven't used Chrome intensively in a long while, but I seem to me remember at the time (many years ago, on a Mac) it would slow to a crawl after a few days with many open tabs. I don't have any such issue with Firefox on Linux.

cycomanic 4y ago
I just tried on my mobile. Chrome is much slower. Firefox is sub second, while chrome was a noticeable wait. I actually checked if I didn't have connection issues and opened a new private tab in Firefox to check.
bambax 4y ago
Google Maps actually works better for me on FF than on Chrome. For some reason earth view won't launch on Chrome while it never stopped working on FF.
happymellon 4y ago
Now I have to object here. AWS Console being completely stateful with its accounts and roles is only usable in Firefox with Containers. And as for Google Maps I don't see any difference between Chrome and Firefox. I use Confluence for work, and so have to use Chrome. It's slow and terrible everywhere.

piceas 4y ago

Jitsi meet has had trouble. Not sure who is at fault though.

cycomanic 4y ago
That is like almost 2 years ago (as a side note they also had issues with safari).