1342
firefox (feddit.uk)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
280 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 50 points 3 years ago (13 children)

What's with all these comments saying Firefox is slow!? I've never noticed FF slowing down? I also can't find anything online particularly damning (they all are pretty close in scores. No massive performance numbers for one or the other). I thought this was just a common misconception. Can anyone explain?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 13 child comments
    •
  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    People complain about Firefox performance and site compatibility all the time and I have no idea what they are talking about. I use both it and other browsers all the time and Firefox for me is the better one.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It is a common misconception, they perform functionally identical across multiple PC's and updates. People are just slow to change their minds.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can you show me data showing that Firefox with dark theme, does a first load on a website just as fast as Chrome or edge? Same data point for with video buffer in frame? Pretty sure its noticeably slower in both scenarios with a dark theme.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    I run a dark theme by default, first load of google.com in chrome is functionally indentical in performance as I said. Statistically there is a difference, probably only 0.1 - 0.25s max faster load in Chrome but it's not reliable at all in the few tests I did quick (t's 4am), so something that does not effect function itself, only form, makes me still correct in what I said originally.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    I think there were some bad releases many many years ago, but right now Firefox works great. But unfortunately that reputation lingers, and people don't like changing their browsers often.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @blotz @siriusmart I have like 32 gb of high speed ram and my browser would still run slow the last time I used firefox. This was a very very very very long time ago and I have like 400 tabs open but that's why I have a computer with 32gb of ram to browse the web.....

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I've actually started using Firefox more because Chrome has been causing me problems. Recently downloading more than 3 files from Google takeout at a time broke Chrome. With Firefox I hit 20 simultaneous files with no slowdown. Chrome actually hung until my downloads finished. Made it impossible to work at all while I downloads files. Same issue in incognito. Firefox was great.

    I recently built a PC and included 32GB of RAM specifically so I can have a hundred tabs open without any lag, never had a issue with Firefox.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent