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I've been using it for some of my work for a few months now, after a multi-year hiatus because it always, no matter which version I installed, slowed to a crawl

I've been using it for some of my work for a few months now, after a multi-year hiatus because it always, no matter which version I installed, slowed to a crawl after a short while of use. Now that I've restarted using it.......... Same damn thing as before: If I open more than a couple of tabs and leave it running for a couple hours, the whole thing slows to a crawl. This problem has persisted for me across nearly a dozen laptops over several years. I don't think it's specific to something I'm doing wrong. (though I'm happy to be corrected on this so I can finally fix that thing and use firefox regularly) Chrome on the other hand can be open with dozens of tabs (yes I'm a tab hoarder, sorry) and run just fine. I don't like Google in so many ways, but damn is it hard to argue against using chrome over FF when FF keeps being so damn stupidly shitty on lightness of use. My daily work laptop is admittedly pretty low-spec, but if one damn browser doesn't make it crawl, why should it be so hard for the other damn browser that promotes itself so heavily to pull off the same thing? Conclusión from this little corner of the browser user space: Firefox, get your shit together finally please? It's been over a decade, you've had plenty of time to stop fucking basic things like lightness of performance speed up.

muizelaar 4y ago
Can you gather, upload, and share a profile of the slowness using https://profiler.firefox.com/ https://profiler.firefox.com/?
eco 4y ago
I can't say I've experienced this (at least not regularly) ever since I returned to Firefox a few years ago. I'm a degenerate tab hoarder (usually two or three hundred). I actually switched back to Firefox after I tested and saw how much better it handled my shameful tab hoarding than Chrome did at the time (which would slow to an usable mess). I'm guessing it just has something to do with the differences in sites we visit because I use Firefox on 4 different devices, both macos and Windows (5 if we count Android) and don't have this issue at all. Sending a profile their way as the other person replying said would probably help get this fixed.
erklik 4y ago
> I've been using it for some of my work for a few months now, after a multi-year hiatus because it always, no matter which version I installed, slowed to a crawl after a short while of use. I am surprised to hear this. I had this complaint a few years ago too, but today, I currently have about 105 tabs open right now, all fully loaded and it's running fine. I am running on an Apple Macbook so maybe that's the difference? I run Chrome and similar number of tabs result in my fans turning into jet engines.

muizelaar 4y ago

Can you gather, upload, and share a profile of the slowness using https://profiler.firefox.com/ https://profiler.firefox.com/?

eco 4y ago

I can't say I've experienced this (at least not regularly) ever since I returned to Firefox a few years ago. I'm a degenerate tab hoarder (usually two or three hundred). I actually switched back to Firefox after I tested and saw how much better it handled my shameful tab hoarding than Chrome did at the time (which would slow to an usable mess). I'm guessing it just has something to do with the differences in sites we visit because I use Firefox on 4 different devices, both macos and Windows (5 if we count Android) and don't have this issue at all. Sending a profile their way as the other person replying said would probably help get this fixed.

erklik 4y ago

> I've been using it for some of my work for a few months now, after a multi-year hiatus because it always, no matter which version I installed, slowed to a crawl after a short while of use. I am surprised to hear this. I had this complaint a few years ago too, but today, I currently have about 105 tabs open right now, all fully loaded and it's running fine. I am running on an Apple Macbook so maybe that's the difference? I run Chrome and similar number of tabs result in my fans turning into jet engines.