And before you even begin to complain about it being "too slow", "slower than Chrome", <other statement of the month>, tell us that after you're running Chrome without an ad-blocker.
And even if it really is still slower by some miracle - this is a community containing world-class software engineers. Donate some of your time to bring it up to speed. Pun intended.
If you do decide on using it, I recommend editing the browser so it doesn't display tabs on top, so the tree style tabs is the only place your tabs are located.
I cannot emphasize enough how big an improvement this has been to my browser experience, once I got proffecient with it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
That was undeniably true, though ages ago. Probably those thinking along these lines didn't run Firefox for some time.
A ton of code has changed in the two products and since about two years Firefox has filled the gap then surpassed Chrome. And BTW even if Firefox wasn't faster than Chrome (it is), I would happily trade say a 20% loss in speed with a close to 100% gain in privacy.
Sadly they don't seem to have world-class managers
But yeah as a Firefox user it still lags behind safari and chrome for speed. I don’t use Adblock either...
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/
Two finger pinch zooming on a Macbook stutters enormously in Firefox and is much smoother on Chrome.
I use this feature all the time and it's made switching to Firefox difficult.
Another example:
I'm not a fan at all of how Firefox handles displaying huge amounts of tabs. Tiny arrows to scroll your tabs left and right is really a disorienting nuisance and I much prefer Chrome's system of making tabs smaller. I'm sure there's a way to change this, but I'd rather stay on the default path that they're actively iterating on and improving.
[1] http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011032210281240...
Autofilling. Chrome is just so much better and it's something I have to do a lot for my business. I'm always buying random parts from random places and a lot of them don't have the best-designed forms. Chrome handles them much better. There's just so much friction removed when you don't have to type all your info, especially on a phone, or pull out your credit card. I now have my credit card number memorized thanks to having to do so so much with Firefox. I had the same credit card for years, but with chrome I so rarely had to actually pull it out that I couldn't have told you more than the last 4 digits.
Chrome's built in password management is just better at picking up logins and passwords too when forms aren't designed really well.
I get a lot more performance issues with Firefox. I have to force close it sometimes. Never happened with chrome. It's not super frequent by any means but it happens.
Lot of websites don't work in Firefox and I have to open them in Chrome which is likely not Firefox's fault the majority of the time, just developers not testing in Firefox, but still quite annoying to me.
In addition to the issues above, I noticed terrible battery performance on my laptop and the fans would frequently spin up even with a single tab open.
One thing Firefox recently did was overhaul their GPU acceleration code (webrender) - it makes a massive difference in rendering speed and is faster than Chrome in many situations, though it needs to be manually enabled on some machines.
I run Brave without an adblocker and have found it to be much faster than Firefox (with adblocker and pi-hole).
Also, as someone whose startup has both Chrome and Firefox extensions, I have to say the Firefox reviewers (who review releases and hold up the process — not end user reviewers) can be hugely annoying, and we deploy there as infrequently as possible. As a result, our Firefox customers don’t get all the latest bells and whistles. Wish it weren’t that way, but the process takes months!
Edit: clarified the annoying reviewers are not end users reviewers, but the people who suck up months of time for every minor update, making confused complaints about our code, and even UI implementation.
And for the record, I used Firefox for decades, up until last year. I just spend too much time in my browser to use anything other than Brave, given how much time it saves me.
Maybe, just maybe, they're sick of you because you ignore their platform?
I don't think I could use the modern web without it.