What’s up with Firefox?

Re:What’s up with Firefox? by CaptSpify on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:34PM (#13485135)

As a dedicated FF user: It feels significantly slower than chrome, it's hard to figure out what tab is killing things, and they keep making choices that I consider highly questionable.

I do love FF, and it is the browser I use everyday. But it's not without it's own warts, which Chrome is much better at hiding.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by disordinary on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:54PM (#13485360)

I've found that in recent times Chrome has started to feel bloated and slow and firefox (with minimal addons) feels much more zippy. However Firefox does seem to be a bit more temperamental when something else is using significant CPU.

Ultimately I prefer Firefox.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by pimeys on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:01PM (#13486648)

After version 50.0 I switched back from Opera. The deal is to get the e10s multiprocess windows on. It might be disabled because some of the addons. You can try to enforce it or like in my case with only uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger installed, it was on by default.

This browser is seriously fast now on Linux. I couldn't be happier with it. I've used it for weeks already, browsing a lot and it's still as snappy as when I installed it.

Good job. And soon we'll start getting the Servo stuff...

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by CaptSpify on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:20PM (#13486790)

I've tried turning it on via https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Force_Enable, but it still doens't seem to be on per about:support unfortunately.

If you have any other suggestions for getting it going, I'd appreciate it.

One additional complaint I have about FF: It's hard to find out where to change the setting that I want. I constantly have to ddg for "How do I change $x" and I end up with 3 different answers for 3 different revisions. If anyone knows of a good resource for me to find this out, I would appreciate it.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by pimeys on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:33PM (#13486906)

Elsewhere in the comments section there were tips about an addon that tells if one of your addons is blocking e10s. Another useful tip was the dom.ipc.processCount setting. Before I cancelled my LastPass account I was using the 3.x version from them, which doesn't support e10s and crashed the browser when I forced it on. But still I was able to turn it on even though the browser was unusable.

I run this on Arch and Wayland, which might also add to the snappyness. What I kind of observed from all the comments was, that the OSX users were complaining the most about the slowness. Might be that the Linux version is faster then.

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Re:What’s up with Firefox? by iaml on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:53PM (#13485347)

Exactly that, it feels slow. On my laptop I have chrome and nightly firefox which typically is faster than stable branch. I have tons of addons in chrome and only ublock in ff, and yet chrome feels much more responsive compared to ff.

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