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Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by dbg31415 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:20AM (#27354901)
Try streaming a call on MacOS... you'll feel a bit off.

40x the energy usage vs Safari. It's atrocious. Laptop gets to silly high temps, has to be bad for battery life... But I'm sure glad we have some new popup confirmation windows. Cool.

EDIT: I use FF on my Mac as my primary browser. Just so frustrated at how little fucks they give about performance and battery usage.

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Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by freediver on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:17PM (#27390170)
May I ask why not just use Safari?
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Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by dbg31415 on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:44PM (#27430442)
I mean, I do for streaming calls.

BUT, I really do like Firefox's ability to clear history and cookies on close. I like the extensions for Firefox... Safari doesn't really have any extensions... not really anyway. Things work funky, if they work at all. I think I run 40+ Firefox extensions for work.

Everything from ClearURLs, to Wappalizer, to Reddit Shine. Nothing works on Safari.

Firefox is great, except they don't give a flying poo about battery life or heat issues on Macs. Really frustrating given we're all mobile these days.

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