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Here is the list of things that piss me off about firefox:

  • It is dogshit slow
  • It eats up a ludicrous amounts of RAM, which I wasn’t expecting since it’s one of the main things people make fun of chrome for
  • It crashes constantly
  • It tries to push it’s “AI” bullshit on me despite me turning it off on multiple occasions
  • It puts ads on my home page
  • It needs to be relaunched regularly because at some point it becomes too laggy to use. It even stops loading pages altogether
  • “Restore previous session” feature doesn’t work half the time so restarting the browser is absolutely terrifying
  • Profile management is a mess

Are there any alternatives? Is Brave any good?

  • dave@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    14 days ago

    Just to second this. I use Chrome and Firefox daily for development work, and FF is my primary browser. It’s not noticeably slower than chrome, and I use TST with over 1000 discarded (hibernated) tabs organised in hierarchies for different projects. Usually 30–50 open at any one time.

    I’ve not seen AI being pushed, or even ads, but maybe I’ve just configured something a long time ago. UBlockOrogin and a couple of TamperMonkey scripts to fix up some sites I use regularly that have irritating CSS.

    Not had session restore issues that I can remember. And I don’t know what counts as ‘ludicrous’ amounts of RAM but on a 32GB machine running editors, google firebase emulators, various node servers and a bunch of other cruft, I’ve never run short because of FF.

    • dastanktal [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      Yeah, I don’t know what this person’s complaining about. Firefox can use a little bit of RAM initially, but if you’re not going back and forth to the tabs constantly, it doesn’t, it unloads them from RAM after like an hour, and it reduces its RAM footprint to a tiny fragmented amounts.

      You block origin is really really tight and prevents practically any problems I have and then I use No script on top of that which just makes my setup super lightweight.

      In the same boat with using 32 gigabytes of RAM, but I also have systems that have 4 gigs of RAM that I’ve never had issues with Firefox.