Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)
by nachtigall on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:43AM
(#13335359)
You might want to "refresh" your Firefox, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13227658
Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)
by agumonkey on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:36AM
(#13335541)
Let's see if that improves things.
ps: refresh done, still lagging on tab open/close. That said, I use Nightly, and I'm not sure it's not instrumented and thus slower..
Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)
by nachtigall on Friday January 06, 2017 @07:58AM
(#13335903)
I do not think that Nightly should be any slower than say Dev Edition (Aurora) or the stable release. What's your default page when opening a new tab? Maybe it's because your start page needs long to load?! Mine is "about:home" (set with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-overr...)
Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)
by snovv_crash on Friday January 06, 2017 @09:34AM
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If you have LastPass, make sure you updated to plugin 4.x. Earlier versions didn't play nicely with the new multithreading, causing big lags.
I love Firefox extensions, I love the bookmark editor, I love the non-big-corp centric coupling. But I can only use it for long periods of time if chrome has a bug (I use canary). Or when they send a memory debugging build which are as sluggish as Firefox.
Every time I run Firefox I'm sad thinking about Firefox 2 with good old basic windows gui.
Also, since Chrome 56, maybe it's just an accounting trick, but memory usage dropped tremendously...