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If you use Firefox and Chrome side by side every day, you can definitely tell that Firefox lacked it until now. This is especially evident on older Macs and most Linux distros I've tried. Chrome/Chromium's performance is leaps and bounds ahead of Firefox, RAM usage notwithstanding.

I'm eager to try this out when I get home tonight.

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I definitely don't use Firefox except when testing how our website looks in Firefox.

But it's not because of laggy behavior. Come to think of it, it's because Firefox just feels... weird and unnatural, compared to Chrome or even Edge.

That's just familiarity talking, though. Every browser has its slight scrolling and rendering and UI quirks to get used to.

This. As a Firefox user I have the same 'feeling' going back the other way. With regards to developer tools, I find the tools that I use constantly - console, inspector, network activity - to be superior on Firefox... Each to his own I suppose.

Are you sure that it's not anyways, because of lagginess (i.e. did you try the new release)?

The addition of e10s has also majorly improved scrolling performance (through the implementation of Asynchronous Panning and Zooming [0]), which I've personally found to be exactly that, it felt weird beforehand, but I couldn't have told you what was wrong exactly...

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/02/smoother-scrolling-in-fire...

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