Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
by mbesto on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:04PM
(#17367013)
I switched over to Firefox for about 3 months. The following were dealbreakers for me and I switched back to Chrome:
- Battery draining...it's seriously really bad. Even if the app is just open on my MacBook, I go from ~8hours of battery to like ~2hrs. I travel a lot...it's untenable
- Performance is generally pretty good, but it never felt better than Chrome.
- At first CPU on streaming video (Twitch, YT, etc) was better on Firefox, but over time I got the infamous "fan spinning" and CPU churning issues.
- Site compatibility: about 10-15% of sites I would visit broke.
- Nitpick, but not deal breaker: icons on my bookmark toolbar didn't work consistently. I would save a bookmark and it would stick to some other site and I could never clear the cache to fix it. It also frequently used non-retina images.
- Battery draining...it's seriously really bad. Even if the app is just open on my MacBook, I go from ~8hours of battery to like ~2hrs. I travel a lot...it's untenable
- Performance is generally pretty good, but it never felt better than Chrome.
- At first CPU on streaming video (Twitch, YT, etc) was better on Firefox, but over time I got the infamous "fan spinning" and CPU churning issues.
- Site compatibility: about 10-15% of sites I would visit broke.
- Nitpick, but not deal breaker: icons on my bookmark toolbar didn't work consistently. I would save a bookmark and it would stick to some other site and I could never clear the cache to fix it. It also frequently used non-retina images.