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> Firefox is not slower, it's just that most websites are optimised and tested only or mainly under Chrome.

Anecdotally.. Firefox was always slower rendering pages compared to other browsers. On some sites that I visited regularly, using FF was depressing. Later on, it started to suffer from caching issues on my machine. This caused a massive system slowdown.

Tried Palemoon (non-blink\webkit, etc). It blazed through pages- even the heavy ones FF had problems with historically. The rendered results were spot on too. It was like getting a new machine.

What I'm saying is that we can't blame everything on pages being optimized for Browser X or Browser Y. Sometimes we need to call out our favorite browsing application and let them know this is an issue. Otherwise, they keep losing users based solely on performance.

Having said that, looking forward to Quantum.

[gonehome]

I'd check out the Firefox nightly which now has all the Quantum stuff - it's a lot better.

I also switched to chrome back when Firefox was a lot slower, but now I'm tempted to switch to Firefox or Safari and I try to occasionally.

I've historically had to switch back partly because I (stupidly) rely a lot on chrome's omnibox autofill memory and also because we use the switchyomega plugin at work and I don't want to deal with having a non-standard setup.

[cosarara97]

I thought Palemoon was basically firefox?

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With some ugly UI stuff pulled out and some extra compiler optimisation flags set.