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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by niklasni1 on Saturday December 27, 2014 @05:05PM (#8804131)
What was wrong with Firefox?

I've used it every day since starting a new job seven months ago and I've not noticed any issues with it.

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by scholia on Saturday December 27, 2014 @07:14PM (#8804529)
Firefox has improved a lot and it has been good for more than I year (I switched back in the middle of last year). Before that it was slower than Chrome, and it crashed when trying to read very large pages (eg a tumblr page of gifs).

Google helped to close the gap by making Chrome more bloated and much more unstable.

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