Switch from Chrome to Firefox

Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by k_bx on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:07PM (#20054191)

> and even Firefox

if you have a retina display, this "even" is sort of a joke, because ff is so CPU-heavy (and often slow) that it's unusable for me https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by chris_wot on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:58PM (#20054723)

I have a retina display and I'm using Firefox right now with 5 tabs open. Working fine for me!

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by sioux77 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:19PM (#20055502)

Do you use scaled resolution? It seems the bug is Retina + scaled resolution which is a default on some Macbooks.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by konart on Thursday May 30, 2019 @03:26PM (#20055010)

150 tabs here, lol.

But it is true that for some users Firefox on retina is barely usable. It is a confirmed bug.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by novok on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:49PM (#20055765)

I think if you have a 2 core 2015 13" macbook it's slow. If you have a 4 core 2015 15" macbook or better then you are fine with firefox.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by weberc2 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:55PM (#20056302)

Unless you have other software running, in my case. The Docker for MAC VM idles at 80% CPU (obviously not FF’s fault).

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