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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by JD557 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:35AM (#19027126)
Regarding the other replies, I believe that Firefox is extremely slow in OS X only if you use a scaled resolution.

That seems to be a known issue, but for some reason it's taking a long time to be solved.

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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by jamiek88 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @11:42AM (#19027714)
Scaled resolution is default on most/all retina MacBooks which is unfortunate.
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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by samdixon on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @02:06PM (#19028982)
For me it is only slow if I go outside the default scaled resolution. On my 2015 13" mbp I use the default scaled resolution to get around the performance issues.

Another work around if you want to use a non-default scaled resolution with firefox is to use firefox in non retina mode. I prefer not to use this as it makes the experience blurry.

I do wish they would fix this issue though.

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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by jamiek88 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:41AM (#19035910)
Oh ok, great. For me the default scaled works best visually and I don’t use an external monitor so glad I won’t have this issue.

With the handoff working too I’m downloading tonight to give FF a fair shake.

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