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Re:Why are browsers so slow? by kahnpro on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @07:56AM (#13228704)
I don't know what Firefox you're using but I always find it very slow and sluggish compared to Chrome.

Especially Google maps and YouTube. I always have to switch over to Chrome to use these sites because they always bring FF to its knees. I wonder if this is deliberate on the part of Google.

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Re:Why are browsers so slow? by annnnd on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @09:36AM (#13229388)
FF on Linux. Don't use maps, but YouTube works as it should (but then again, I only allow youtube.com, ytimg.com and googlevideo.com via NoScript).

It might be deliberate, at least in sense that MS pages never worked properly on Netscape / Firefox / Konqueror /... in the days of IE dominance.

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Re:Why are browsers so slow? by Certhas on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @08:46AM (#13228993)
On a 4 year old MacBook Air running Firefox, google maps takes a second or so to open fully, after browsing around in two google maps windows for a while my memory usage is stable at 1.25GB.
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