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?

[–] Geth@vlemmy.net 16 points 1 year 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.

[–] buxtonwater@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] halcyon@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] buxtonwater@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] therealmdubbs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

I used to to think the android mobile app was slow. It's gotten allot better though. Now that it supports uBlock I think it's the best browser for Android.

[–] amir_s89@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also browsing the web with the uBlock Origin installed, will signifiy improve the speed. Meanwhile protect you from various bad stuff, adds being nonexistent. :)

Check this app & also tick all the boxes within its Settings.

[–] cashews_win@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"It works on my PC"

[–] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] SuperiorOne@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Firefox is slower on synthetic benchmarks compared to Chromium ones but I've never seen a noticeable difference while surfing sites.

[–] smartwater0897@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's not slow, people are slow in their heads. Chrome may feel a bit faster but it's not even what matters when picking a web browser. Will it protect your privacy online? Yes or no.

[–] B_Whitewind@witches.live 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@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.....

[–] burgundymyr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.