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Re:Firefox 51.0 by staktrace on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:48PM (#13478297)
I've heard this same thing from many people, and the problem almost always turns out to be accumulated cruft in the Firefox profile. Switching to a "fresh" browser usually makes it feel much more responsive because you don't have the cruft. If that's the case for you, following the steps at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a... may help.
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Re:Firefox 51.0 by driverdan on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:53PM (#13478643)
It's not. FF is slower then Chrome. I formatted my Macbook recently so I know it was clean. FF is significantly slower than Chrome, especially on JS heavy sites like Amazon.

It's also worse on power. FF tends to drain my battery much faster than Chrome. That's with <20 tabs open, mostly light weight sites.

I'm still using FF as my main browser but will probably switch to Chrome again.

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