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> Firefox is unusable on Linux. Way too slow. That may be true for you, but not in general. Perhaps there's something about your system configuration that it d
by jfk13 3y ago
> Firefox is unusable on Linux. Way too slow.
That may be true for you, but not in general. Perhaps there's something about your system configuration that it doesn't handle well.
- irthomasthomas 3y agoBelieve me, I want to use Firefox, but I've tried it on multiple PCs and a dozen different distros, and it is always significantly slower than chrome. I actually benchmarked startup time and page load times a few weeks back and found it was 2-3x slower. Since then Brave has gotten even faster.
- fsflover 3y agoSlower on which websites?
- Garvi 3y agoI can confirm. In my experience on edge-case hardware, a raspberry pi 2, Chrome will play 1080p video while Firefox will stutter. And since raspberry pi's are treated as TVs, I get absolutely drowned in ads on Chrome. To be fair, on my other machines I rarely see any ads(ad blockers), so to have my video interrupted by an ad on youtube is way beyond acceptable. I am now using screen mirroring software "moonlight" to mirror my PC to the TV pi. I find people who watch ads weak minded apologists. Which is also the reason I will never again use Chrome.
- saint_yossarian 3y agoMake sure you turn off the "Ambient" mode on YouTube, it's a huge CPU hog and pretty useless anyway.