Re:Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path
by jovial_galileo on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:28PM
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Some legacy addons are poorly written. Have you tried a fresh Firefox profile with only uBlock Origin on it?
On a core i7 with 16GB and a completely fresh Windows 10 install that has never had Firefox on it (so we can't blame an old profile on the machine), Firefox with a single plugin (Keefox) is noticeably slower than Chrome. Just logging into my Google account I saw surprising amounts of basic UI stuttering. Something like Inbox (which is admittedly a pig) loads slowly and scrolls sluggishly.
Chrome, by comparison, is responsive and snappy.
I wish it were different. I really want to like Firefox, but on this machine, with some very basic tests it's clear that, for me, it simply does not compare...