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How is performance on Firefox?

I can do without the clipboard or PWA mode. Performance and responsiveness are what converted me and plenty others from Firefox when Chrome first appeared. If Firefox performance is at least close to Chrome/Chromium it'd make switching back much more appealing.

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It's been pretty amazing since the start of the Quantum project. At least since FF70.

I also switched to Chrome rims ago when it came out due to how buttery smooth it was, but switched back after it starter to get slow.

Chrome's a memory hog and it runs slow and clunky on older devices, in my experience.

Firefox performance since about version 68 or so has been excellent.

In fact, _better_ than Chrome for most websites (exceptions perhaps google's). I used to struggle with Chrome/Chromium hang and chew on CPU cores, crawl to a halt, crash, or just simply run out of memory or a regular basis. Switched to Firefox ~67-69 and such issues are completely gone. I still have significant CPU usage from background tabs occasionally even in Firefox, but the rest of the issues are all nearly inexistent (even though I have on average 30+ tabs open).

My tabs have gotten out of control (they are in the hundreds (due to reasons)), but Firefox handles it quite nice. It only gets restarted after updates, so they are long-lived as well.

Chrome seem to struggle when there are tens of tabs.

I personally know somebody who is currently running a Firefox with 3,000+ (yes, you read that right) tabs as part of their day to day workflow. Firefox just unloads tabs that weren't used for long and cause high memory pressure which is very neat feature for tab addicts.

This describes me. I currently have 3467 tabs. Firefox is the only browser that can handle this.

6400+ currently. Firefox does not break a sweat.

Forget Firefox, my brain can't handle more than 10 tabs 0_0

I daily drive FF and even develop using it. Everyone else in the company use Chrome. Recently one of our clients complained about a performance issue, I tried to replicate it on my fast PC, but could not replicate. The people who could replicate it were on Chrome, but when they followed the replication steps in FF, the problem disappeared.

Google web applications still not great, but still usable I find. Facebook performance isn't great either.

> Google web applications still not great

Sadly Google will typically "accidentally sabotage" performance of their key apps on Firefox.

Browser performance is not only about objective benchmark but also subjectivity on our feeling when using the browser. So trying it first hand and be open-minded would help confirming it on your very personalized usecase.

I suggest to try Firefox as side browser for your light browsing need. Maybe like when reading news, social media browser, or anything make sense for you.

This worked for me, in my case, now chrome is my side browser.

I don't know how it compares to Chrome but it's definitely fast enough to leave me with no complaints. I'm using it on Samsung A40 and Tab 5e, plus a Sony Xperia X Compact. Also as my primary browser on my laptop (Ubuntu 20.04).

Firefox is really fast, it feels a lot more responsive on my system and boot time is almost instant.

Scrolling smoothness is still nowhere near EdgeHTML (old, non chromium Edge), but is just behind or better than Chrome

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