After nearly a decade of using Chrome I decided to give FF another shot, having initially switched over due to slowness, an insatiable thirst for memory, and the single process model. I installed on both Windows (10 Pro) and Mac OS.

Initial impressions were good; it seemed snappy, I liked the UI, and it was using less memory than Chrome with the same number of tabs open. A couple of days in things went downhill.

On Mac OS I was getting short freezes every ~10 seconds. I found similar complaints ranging over a period of nearly five years, but no clear resolution. This morning I had FF lock up multiple times while editing Jira tickets. Since FF is still a single process, the entire browser was locked up and required a hard kill, which cost me work.

So, no thanks mozilla, back to Chrome. I know this is one person with one experience, but man, this one experience was pretty off-putting. Maybe I'll try again in another decade.