Yes indeed but FF bogs down quicker than Chrome with lots of tabs, so I use both.

More important, I like Google Earth and it tries to install Keystone too.

The next release of FF looks to be a game changer in that regard.

Unfortunately I think we've heard this so many separate times that it's beginning to be the boy who cried wolf.

I've heard "Firefox is better than it was" only for me to reinstall the latest and find it's still way cludgier than chrome.

I stopped using firefox years ago when chrome got good, and was happy. I wasn't happy with chrome recently (especially memory and CPU usage), and tried switching back to firefox shortly after the quantum release. I've been happily using it since, and have found comparable or lower resource usage. It actually does fine for me, even with tons of tabs (or as fine as any web browser does).

Sure. I hear that, but there have been some specific MacOS issues that have lead to it performing worse on MacOS than on other platforms, and they seem to be getting addressed in the Nightly builds.

In general, I've found it to be much better than Chrome, but as always YMMV.

I've had the same feeling many times with both Firefox and Chrome in the past.

I think in the end that's something that you have to test out for yourself periodically, as it seems to be great differences of which is the best performer across OSs and devices. As a rule of thumb I try to do a short evaluation of each of them every ~5 releases.

It is much better (using v70 beta 8), but still has areas where performance lags behind Chrome. On a large board in https://miro.com/, for example, Firefox is laggy and jittery, whereas Chrome is buttery smooth.

You can report a performance problem -- I have had good luck with fixes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance...

We shall see. So far using some "tab discard" plugin is essential to reasonable performance. Somehow having many tabs/windows open slows down firefox a lot, event though they aren't wasting CPU (I have most javascript disabled).

Weird... the tab discard stuff no longer helps with Firefox for me. It seems to handle background tabs on its own.

Its a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't it? Chrome is a fine browser, botnet "features" aside.

It’s so easy to switch browsers so why even bother trying to fix some big ad company’s browser that is not acting in your interest?