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Mozilla's "phoenix" legacy is alive and well. I have been very skeptical of Mozilla even very recently as Firefox's many performance problems seemed insurmounta

Mozilla's "phoenix" legacy is alive and well. I have been very skeptical of Mozilla even very recently as Firefox's many performance problems seemed insurmountable. But here I am after many years of using Chrome typing in this box using Firefox. I also hope they don't change direction. They're on fire and rising once again.

bmj 14y ago
Agreed. I've noticed some rather nice performance improvements over the last six months, and, like you, I've switched back to FF from Chrome.
- hollerith 14y ago
  I'm guessing the computer you're running FF on has a solid-state drive; amiright ? added: my reason for asking is that I run FF (release update channel) and I genuinely wonder whether it would be more responsive if it weren't for my slow hard drive. (in particular, I am hypothesizing that every time I visit a new page, its URL gets committed to disk.) was not trying to slam FF; please don't downvote me!
  - btipling 14y ago
    It's more than performance, they've also picked up must have features like opening up just closed tabs (cmd+shift+t), and cmd+9 to go to last tab, private windows (used to be all of firefox went private), quick updates.
    - hollerith 14y ago
      The "Recently Closed Tabs" menu item (under "History") has been in FF since version 11 or before.
    - mirzmaster 14y ago
      Reopening a closed tab via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T has been a longtime feature of Firefox, since at least early 2007.
      - btipling 14y ago
        Oh, whoops. Thanks for correcting me!
  - bmj 14y ago
    No, I'm not, actually. Just your standard, Dell-issued laptop drive. I noticed better memory usage and general performance increases within the last few releases to the beta channel (sorry, I can't pinpoint which one it was). I started to use FF again a few months ago, and found I still needed to restart the browser at least once a day to keep things responsive (and I don't usually have more than a dozen tabs open). Then, after one of the updates, I didn't need to do that, and I didn't notice any performance degradation over the course of several days.
    - hollerith 14y ago
      Thanks. I'll try the beta channel.
  - jimmaswell 14y ago
    Tr changing some disk-related settings in about:config.
  - hollerith 14y ago
    A few hours after I wrote this, my FF updated itself (to version 20.0) and became much, much more responsive!

bmj 14y ago

Agreed. I've noticed some rather nice performance improvements over the last six months, and, like you, I've switched back to FF from Chrome.

hollerith 14y ago
I'm guessing the computer you're running FF on has a solid-state drive; amiright ? added: my reason for asking is that I run FF (release update channel) and I genuinely wonder whether it would be more responsive if it weren't for my slow hard drive. (in particular, I am hypothesizing that every time I visit a new page, its URL gets committed to disk.) was not trying to slam FF; please don't downvote me!
- btipling 14y ago
  It's more than performance, they've also picked up must have features like opening up just closed tabs (cmd+shift+t), and cmd+9 to go to last tab, private windows (used to be all of firefox went private), quick updates.
  - hollerith 14y ago
    The "Recently Closed Tabs" menu item (under "History") has been in FF since version 11 or before.
  - mirzmaster 14y ago
    Reopening a closed tab via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T has been a longtime feature of Firefox, since at least early 2007.
    - btipling 14y ago
      Oh, whoops. Thanks for correcting me!
- bmj 14y ago
  No, I'm not, actually. Just your standard, Dell-issued laptop drive. I noticed better memory usage and general performance increases within the last few releases to the beta channel (sorry, I can't pinpoint which one it was). I started to use FF again a few months ago, and found I still needed to restart the browser at least once a day to keep things responsive (and I don't usually have more than a dozen tabs open). Then, after one of the updates, I didn't need to do that, and I didn't notice any performance degradation over the course of several days.
  - hollerith 14y ago
    Thanks. I'll try the beta channel.
- jimmaswell 14y ago
  Tr changing some disk-related settings in about:config.
- hollerith 14y ago
  A few hours after I wrote this, my FF updated itself (to version 20.0) and became much, much more responsive!