Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C...
by yawaramin on Sunday September 01, 2019 @11:19AM
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Well here is the well-documented YouTube slowness with Firefox: https://fortune.com/2018/07/25/youtube-slow-mozilla-firefox-...
Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C...
by alex7o on Sunday September 01, 2019 @11:40AM
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Or you can install brave and not deal with anything
Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C...
by hermanradtke on Sunday September 01, 2019 @12:03PM
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This does not help prevent the blink monoculture though.
Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C...
by jcranberry on Sunday September 01, 2019 @12:25PM
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I don't have this experience at all with mobile firefox. I find it faster and with better UX.
I've had bugs where the site doesn't work in Firefox but works in Chrome, but as far as I can tell, those were always caused by the aggressive privacy settings I use in Firefox (whereas the Chrome profile is mostly default).
I'm not particularly concerned with the article's complaint about onboarding. The problem is that Firefox is simply slightly worse (less polished, often slower) in many, many aspects.
On Desktop, Firefox is quite usable, even if it is a bit less polished than Chrome.
On Mobile, it's another story. The only thing saving it is the fact that Chrome doesn't let you install extensions, so you have the choice between an ad-filled web on a browser that runs well, with the ads slowing you down (with Chrome), and a clean web in a slow browser with an unpolished UX and infuriating bugs that don't get fixed (with Firefox). So far, I'd say the two experiences are comparably annoying.