I can imagine how frustrating it would feel as a Firefox dev reading reports like this and wondering wth is going wrong. Because I'm "just a user" and I've never seen FF being slow to start or loading pages.
Same with sync, I recently install Firefox on a new laptop. Clicked the sync button, logged in with my account and done. In 2-3 minutes all history and addons sync'd \o/ UX wise I really love that Firefox Android has the address bar on the bottom :D
Except some Google stuff like the GCP console.
EDIT: formatting
Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
by stjohnswarts on Saturday July 31, 2021 @07:57PM
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Same. I use it hours a day. I don't get it. There is something broken or misconfigured on these users machines, at least from FF's position. I use it on Linux, windows, mac, and mobile with no issues except when I've enabled so much adblock stuff that I have to start backing it off for that website :) (only if I really, really, really need the site)
Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
by prashantsengar on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:28PM
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I can feel that too. But I have tried to sync so many times, tried reinstalling, used a different account but it never worked.
On my phone (Android), Firefox is quite good except a few UX issues (that I don't mind too much) but the sync with my desktop has NEVER worked.
On the desktop, FF has always been slow - in booting, loading pages. The same with Edge and Chrome just work.
If I could get it to sync, and if the desktop version worked, I would never go back to Chromium.