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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by Medicalidiot on Sunday September 01, 2019 @09:16AM (#20852117)
Firefox is a dumpster fire on Mac. No pinch to zoom? Whatever. Scrolling issues? Whatever. Lighting up my CPU to the point it's noticeably warm on idle? Not cool. Having 60% of the battery life as Chrome and 50% of Safari? Unacceptable.

Simply idling Firefox on my Mac would use almost the same amount of battery as actively browsing Safari. I love Firefox on my home Linux desktop, but that's as far as my love goes at the moment.

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by pcwalton on Sunday September 01, 2019 @01:04PM (#20853304)
Fixes are starting to land for the power consumption issues. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by Medicalidiot on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:07PM (#20854898)
I saw that earlier, I'm hoping this resolves my issues, but we'll see.
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by grosswait on Sunday September 01, 2019 @12:27PM (#20853110)
Wierd. I've been using Firefox Quantum Dev Edition on MBP for a few years now and it consistently uses less CPU and RAM than Chrome, with way too many tabs, and consequently better battery life by far.

Power usage still lags behind Safari, but at least it doesn't give me the spinning beachball for 30 seconds on every other new tab after 3 hours of browsing with tons of tabs.

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by kace91 on Sunday September 01, 2019 @12:59PM (#20853291)
Do you have a retina mbp? And if so, do you have the screen resolution set up to the"more space" configuration in your macos system settings?

Those two factors seem to make the problem worse for most users, since the power drain increases with your display resolution.

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