3 ms·

I want to like and use Firefox. Seriously, I really do. But when will they fix the performance of the browser? They're spending devs time on useless crap inste

I want to like and use Firefox. Seriously, I really do. But when will they fix the performance of the browser? They're spending devs time on useless crap instead of being improving the engine, which clearly needs improvements. For example, I wanted to send some thousands of pictures to Proton Drive (doesn't have a sync App yet) and tried doing it in Firefox. It literally started to take all the computer RAM (my computer has 32 GB) while with Brave it uploaded the entire thing without me even noticing in the computer performance.

Ayesh 4y ago
I don't know the technical details behind this, but Firefox always felt slower in file upload front. It was very late to the directory upload feature that Chrome had (in mostly non-standard ways I don't doubt). It doesn't bother me to a point that I can't use Firefox, but for those who regularly upload files, I can totally see Firefox being a subpar experience.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  I've noticed something similar with download speed; I accidentally discovered a while back that using wget to download the same file would run far faster than firefox.
WallyFunk 4y ago
> It literally started to take all the computer RAM That's probably not Firefox, but the way Proton encrypts data client-side. The browser has to do a lot of heavy crypto operations. At least that's the case with Filen.io[0]. I was told by support to have a beefy machine since the desktop web app encrypts data on-the-fly before uploading to their servers. [0] https://filen.io/ https://filen.io/
- traveler01 4y ago
  If Chromium works fine it's clearly Firefox fault.
grangerg 4y ago
I used to wonder the same about Chrome. Try using a Chromebook with less than 4GiB RAM. You can handle 2 simultaneous tabs/apps---if you choose them well. It's due to this behavior alone that I never consider Chromebooks; by the time you find one with enough RAM to handle Chrome, you're in the price range of a "real" laptop.

Ayesh 4y ago

I don't know the technical details behind this, but Firefox always felt slower in file upload front. It was very late to the directory upload feature that Chrome had (in mostly non-standard ways I don't doubt). It doesn't bother me to a point that I can't use Firefox, but for those who regularly upload files, I can totally see Firefox being a subpar experience.

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
I've noticed something similar with download speed; I accidentally discovered a while back that using wget to download the same file would run far faster than firefox.

WallyFunk 4y ago

> It literally started to take all the computer RAM That's probably not Firefox, but the way Proton encrypts data client-side. The browser has to do a lot of heavy crypto operations. At least that's the case with Filen.io[0]. I was told by support to have a beefy machine since the desktop web app encrypts data on-the-fly before uploading to their servers. [0] https://filen.io/ https://filen.io/

traveler01 4y ago
If Chromium works fine it's clearly Firefox fault.

grangerg 4y ago

I used to wonder the same about Chrome. Try using a Chromebook with less than 4GiB RAM. You can handle 2 simultaneous tabs/apps---if you choose them well. It's due to this behavior alone that I never consider Chromebooks; by the time you find one with enough RAM to handle Chrome, you're in the price range of a "real" laptop.