Firefox Product Roadmap

Re:Firefox Product Roadmap by PakG1 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:10AM (#16647875)

I wanted to love Firefox Quantum. At first, it was great. But for whatever reason (likely CPU and RAM as people are describing in this thread), I've discovered that its performance doesn't scale with many tabs as well as Chrome. I've discovered also that when I switch from tab to tab, sometimes the tab needs to reload the page. That's fine. But sometimes, it takes forever to get past a blank white screen on that tab. Sometimes when I open a new tab and try a Google search from the URL bar, same thing. Tried the same URL or same Google search from the URL bar in a new tab in Chrome, absolutely no problem.

Sorry, I'm currently switching back to Chrome. :(

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Re:Firefox Product Roadmap by pcwalton on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:53PM (#16650395)

> I've discovered also that when I switch from tab to tab, sometimes the tab needs to reload the page.

I believe that should only happen for tabs restored during startup. Unlike Chrome (unless something has changed), Firefox lazy-loads restored tabs on startup. I think that's preferable to the alternative.

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Re:Firefox Product Roadmap by PakG1 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:30PM (#16653710)

Sure, but I said that's fine. My point is that it doesn't load. I wait for minutes, and it doesn't load. Quoting myself:

I've discovered also that when I switch from tab to tab, sometimes the tab needs to reload the page. That's fine. But sometimes, it takes forever to get past a blank white screen on that tab.

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