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0 pointsdevoply7y ago0 comments

It fast. That most important thing.

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Firefox with uMatrix will smoke Chrome without it, in nearly any real world use-case.

This is an excellent point. There is absolutely no way a browser which loads and executes ad-loading and tracking script can be possibly be faster than one that doesn't.

Zardoz847y ago

It's the same reason why Firefox for Android it's faster that Chrome android

beezischillin7y ago

Yeah, even with all the speed increases from the rewrite, Firefox still feels awkward and slow at times when compared to Safari and Chrome. Every time I decide to try and switch over from Safari, I get pages where scroll performance is a lot slower than what I'm used to and then I get bothered by it and switch back.

It annoys me because I really want to use it. I'm very happy that we have it and I hope that the wider community will hold Mozilla to account every time they try something shady to protect the best free and open browser we have. If we lose Firefox, we lose the Internet to corporations.

novaRom7y ago

This is strange, because Firefox is much faster than Safari for me. Have you tried Firefox Nightly?

beezischillin7y ago

I haven't but I'll give it a shot, thank you!

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blacksmith_tb7y ago

Also good to start with a fresh profile[1], lots of times you may have some cruft built up in an old profile.

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

feanaro7y ago

> I'm very happy that we have it and I hope that the wider community will hold Mozilla to account every time they try something shady to protect the best free and open browser we have. If we lose Firefox, we lose the Internet to corporations.

Yet how long will we have it if everyone keeps using excuses to continue using Chrome?

jay_kyburz7y ago

Firefox on Windows is no slower as far as I can tell, and renders fonts better.

Firefox on Mac is noticeably slower.

stiGGG7y ago

In my experience Firefox on Mac got a good amount faster in the last year.

kossae7y ago

Agreed. While I still use it, Firefox on Mac just hangs on some js-intensive sites.

rapnie7y ago

Came upon this review the other day, that placed Firefox on #1. Didn't read the detailed report (I'm on FF and feeling happy), but maybe worth a look: https://www.toptenreviews.com/software/internet/best-interne...

AnaniasAnanas7y ago

Hey, you should give w3m a try then.

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darkpuma7y ago

Firefox with uMatrix will smoke Chrome without it, in nearly any real world use-case.

stuartd7y ago

This is an excellent point. There is absolutely no way a browser which loads and executes ad-loading and tracking script can be possibly be faster than one that doesn't.

Zardoz847y ago

It's the same reason why Firefox for Android it's faster that Chrome android

beezischillin7y ago

novaRom7y ago

This is strange, because Firefox is much faster than Safari for me. Have you tried Firefox Nightly?

beezischillin7y ago

I haven't but I'll give it a shot, thank you!

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blacksmith_tb7y ago

Also good to start with a fresh profile[1], lots of times you may have some cruft built up in an old profile.

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

feanaro7y ago

Yet how long will we have it if everyone keeps using excuses to continue using Chrome?

jay_kyburz7y ago

Firefox on Windows is no slower as far as I can tell, and renders fonts better.

Firefox on Mac is noticeably slower.

stiGGG7y ago

In my experience Firefox on Mac got a good amount faster in the last year.

kossae7y ago

Agreed. While I still use it, Firefox on Mac just hangs on some js-intensive sites.

rapnie7y ago

AnaniasAnanas7y ago

Hey, you should give w3m a try then.

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