How Firefox Got Fast Again

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by woolvalley on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:35PM (#15689439)

Has anyone tried firefox 57 or 56 on macOS and still found it to be slower on a bunch of sites? Like facebook is unusably slow on firefox compared to chrome still. Google maps has slow downs too.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by Propen on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:37PM (#15689453)

I keep having the feeling like Google is making its sites unusable on FFX. Same with FB, for example with Chrome m.facebook.com & mbasic.facebook.com serve different pages whereas Firefox gets the dumbed down mbasic content on both domains. I think there are several examples out there where Google does the same.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by supernintendo on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:36PM (#15689983)

Yeah, YouTube is completely unusable for me on macOS Firefox 57. The video will completely stop while the audio continues playing and the only way to fix it is to adjust the current playback time. This is on a Retina MBP with 16GB of RAM. Doesn’t occur with the same version of Firefox on Windows.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by zachwood on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:38PM (#15689471)

you should try to refresh your FF profile. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a...

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by woolvalley on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:26PM (#15689895)

This happened with a fresh install with nothing else installed, I don't know how much that would help.

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