• blotz@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    What’s with all these comments saying Firefox is slow!? I’ve never noticed FF slowing down? I also can’t find anything online particularly damning (they all are pretty close in scores. No massive performance numbers for one or the other). I thought this was just a common misconception. Can anyone explain?

    • SuperiorOne@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Firefox is slower on synthetic benchmarks compared to Chromium ones but I’ve never seen a noticeable difference while surfing sites.

    • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I do that (100+ tabs open at any given time) due to my work (research tends to take up a ton of windows) and because I’m too scatterbrained to focus on a single thing at once, but even then I find that Firefox is really good and arguably better than Chrome. Maybe Chrome has improved since I switched over, but Firefox uses significantly less resources than the Chrome that I remember

  • void@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    first of all, this meme gets posted a lot. second, but more importantly, the format should be reversed. in this scene of the film, Peter Parker sees clearly without glasses, and blurred with glasses, coz he’s been bitten and his eyesight is restored. /flies away

  • Nioxic@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Firefox is indeed amazing but since chrome is so widespread a lot of sites primarily focus on supporting that - and thus i cant always use firefox. its a bit annoying

  • SuperiorOne@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Multi-Account Container with proxy support is a killer feature for me. I keep Brave as fallback just in case for PWAs.

    • nonearther@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know if it’s just ethical or their unwillingness to improve but they have left a lot of issues open for several years.

      Issues like -

      • Auto dark mode for web pages - they removed it when Chrome for Android dropped it, but never picked it back up. All other browsers have it now
      • Geolocation on Mac. Their argument is weird for this and the issue is still there for over 5 years
      • A lot of changes nobody asked, something like address bar auto complete, which they forcefully changed to top sites without even giving options
      • Slowdown because of bloat - while a lot cliam that it isn’t the case, Vivaldi has brought my M1 Mac to its knees, even with brand new instace. Again only one to do so
    • fellow_nerd@lemmy.ml
      0·
      1 year ago

      Do you know of any vi extensions or configs I can look at for Nyxt. The OOB experience isn’t great, but I see the potential. EDIT: Also tree tabs if possible

  • stalling4866@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    Linux setup (PopOS) - Home and daily driver.

    1. Firefox (hardened): My go to everyday browser

    2. Firefox Beta: For financial sites that don’t like hardened Firefox.

    3. Firefox Nightly: For other sites that don’t like hardened Firefox.

    4. Brave: for use with just one site for reading with Dark Reader extension.

    5. Firefox Developer’s Edition (hardened): Another option, as needed.

    Windows setup - Home. Really only use for disc media ripping and burning.

    1. Firefox (hardened)

    Windows setup - Work

    1. Firefox (hardened): Daily driver
    2. Chrome: For when something doesn’t want to work on hardened Firefox.
      • stalling4866@lemmy.world
        0·
        1 year ago

        Hardened = Firefox hardening. Hardening is an option that I choose to implement to improve some aspects of privacy and security of beyond the out of the box Firefox factory settings. I use the settings as recommended in the book, Extreme Privacy - 4th Edition (2002) by Michael Bazzell.

        I use the Firefox beta version only for one specific financial account (Chase) that will not work with hardened Firefox. I use the the Firefox beta version with no changes to the default out of the box settings. Using the Firefox beta version allows me to log in to my Chase account while still connected to my VPN.

  • average650@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    Edge used to be unique,but then they just copied chromium… It had much smaller scrolling which was great on touch screens. Now I have no reason to use it.

    • siriusmart@feddit.ukOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      opera also used to maintain their own browser engine if i remembered correctly, but they all just dipped

    • Balssh@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      On the flipside, atm Edge seems to be the better Chromium choice (if you don’t have a Microsoft hate boner).

      • SCmSTR@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Let’s be clear: it’s a very good browser, very HTML5 compliant, and perhaps one of the best browsers…

        …Assuming you don’t care about insane amounts of spyware - AND not having a lot of really cool browser add-ons (those having spyware and memory leaks is a separate topic, but I want to acknowledge these problems).

        Edge makes more calls home per second than any other piece of software on my computer. I looked at my live log and it was a literal stream. Nearly every single action you do is tracked and sent… (waves hands confusingly up in the air in circles) …somewhere. Likely Microsoft, but I really don’t know.

        Almost all of Windows is like this too. I hate it so much. There’s just no great way to have nice things right now.