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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by tnorthcutt on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @12:47PM (#21586298)
I switched to Firefox recently, partly because of this issue. I used it for 2-3 months, but eventually went back to Chrome because of poor performance; Firefox frequently lagged on typing input, hung, etc. in situations where Chrome does not. I hope things improve.

Caveat: I was using Firefox Developer Edition... I wonder if "normal" FF would be better.

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by Fiveplus on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:09PM (#21586566)
The stable release of Firefox hasn't lagged or given me any troubles. Neither on my work PC nor on my personal 5 year old laptop with mere 4 Gigs of RAM and no SSD.

Disclaimer : I use about 6 privacy focused addons in total.

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by idonotknowwhy on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:54PM (#21590404)
Which addons? I'm currently using Vimium-FF and Ublock Origin.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by chopin on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:15AM (#21593068)
PrivacyBadger, Ublock Origin, UMatrix and lately Toggle Resist Fingerprinting.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by sk5t on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:50PM (#21591544)
Not OP but EFF's Privacy Badger is pretty great.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by newscracker on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:55AM (#21595386)
Privacy Possum is a better fork of Privacy Badger.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by endemic on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:34PM (#21588802)
It would be great if you could capture a performance profile: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance...
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by Justsignedup on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:02PM (#21587216)
Been on FF for a year now. I can say I like it better than chrome. And use it on mobile.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by mcdevilkiller on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:06PM (#21587268)
I use Developer Edition on an 8 y/o PC and it doesn't lag. Even with 500 tabs open (using a tab suspender.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by ben_jones on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:41PM (#21589863)
I wonder if this is just because developers aren't testing or using firefox frequently enough to catch such bugs? I maintain several internal web apps for my current company and am guilty of this, all our users use chrome, all our developers use chrome, so our app unintentionally works best in chrome.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by computermagic on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:47PM (#21587698)
You should try normal cause I have never seen these on the normal release version.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by WizardAustralis on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:03AM (#21592244)
It really depends on your browsing habits I have found, essentially how many tabs you have going at once.

I tend to be very frugal in my use of tabs, maybe 30 at any one time and even then very briefly and I don't have any issues.

To put this in perspective, I'm on a Librebooted T400 machine, so 4GB RAM on a Core 2 Duo and it FF hasn't been a major issue at all. Everyone's mileage may vary.

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by jonahhorowitz on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:57PM (#21589014)
I've been running Firefox Nightly for 2 years now and it's consistently as fast as Chrome. I keep Chrome open only so I can access gmail. Everything else is in FF.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by thiht on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:07AM (#21593301)
> I keep Chrome open only so I can access gmail

Why? Doesn't it work with Firefox?

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by boring_twenties on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:20PM (#21598279)
It seems to be a little slower, but not (for me at least) by enough to make it worthwhile to run a whole second browser.
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