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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by TheKarateKid on Thursday May 30, 2019 @09:25PM (#20057544)
What many others have already said - it's slower and many popular sites don't work properly on it. I don't feel like randomly having websites break when I am trying to get things done.

Even on a newer computer Firefox feels jagged and hangs. Memory leaks still happening years later. It is so frustrating to see Firefox using 1.5GB of RAM when only 2 tabs remain.

Quantum helped a lot, but it's still not enough for me and many others.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by wtetzner on Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:27PM (#20057800)
Really? Firefox feels faster to me than Chrome at this point. I use both for work, but I prefer Firefox at home.

What popular sites don't work in Firefox?

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by dgellow on Friday May 31, 2019 @02:00AM (#20058559)
> many popular sites don't work properly on it

Really? Do you have examples? I haven’t faced this issue. Some websites breaks somehow if you block 3rd party tracking (by breaking I mean that some pictures or video embedded into the page won’t load), but that’s an opt-in feature so I don’t think that’s what you mean.

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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by HelloNurse on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:28AM (#20059176)
Popular sites? If they work only with Chrome they aren't popular sites for me, and I'm happy to know that I shouldn't trust them too much.
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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by fimdomeio on Friday May 31, 2019 @02:15AM (#20058625)
I suffered with the same until around december last year. Ever since I cannot distinguish chrome from firefox most of the time.
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