I can't speak to the experiences of chapium, but my issue with Firefox is that I always experience a slowdown of some sort after it's been open and in use for a few hours. I have to go into about:profiles and "restart normally" to make it go away for another few hours. I never had this problem with Chrome. I'm on my third or fourth attempt to switch to Firefox in the last year and it's still happening. I'm tempted to switch back to Chrome, but I really, really don't want to.

It's not my computer either - my work PC, at least, is a powerhouse.

Also, I find Chrome's dev tools to be marginally better - but I'm not sure if that's just my familiarity with them over Firefox's.

Quick edit: there are some other problems I have with Firefox, but they're all relatively minor and don't bother me nearly as much as the random slowdowns and short freezes.

I always seem to run into performance hitches or glitchy behavior. Both Chrome and Firefox use very aggressive prefetching, but I find that the UI response time feels better in Chrome. Edge (the chromie version) is my go to for stay out of my way browsing.

`about:restartrequired` brings you to a screen where you can just hit enter, allowing for a restart without using the mouse.

That said, I don't think I use it much more often that I had to use `chrome:restart` when I had to use chrome.

Mobile:

Too much.

Web:

- Syncing:

1. Very often hangs on "slow" networks. Syncs for minutes at a time and stops the browser from loading new pages (annoying)

2. Mangles bookmarks. Merges folders I don't want merged and adds bookmarks I've deleted before

- RAM creep

1. Memory leak? Firefox consistently takes up more and more memory the longer I use it

2. Poor suspend/dump functionality on Linux. If you have multiple tabs open, Firefox can quickly freeze your entire system (swap makes no difference). I have to use a 3rd party addon to have inactive tabs "suspended" so my system doesn't freeze

3. Unlike chrome, I don't think Firefox runs seperate processes for tabs. OOM killer never triggers.

- Slow

1. It's just slow. Even on a great laptop with a gigabit connection, it's slow.

- Long startup (self-explanatory)

Why do you choose to use the built-in web browser password manager?

I'm still using 1Password, but the built in one is starting to look pretty good. They even have an Android app for your passwords now. It's not just "browser passwords" like practically everyone else.

Really convenient.

I use KeepPassXC, but Firefox PW is streamlined very well.