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by isoskeles 2683 days ago
I tried switching to Firefox about two years ago and went straight back to Chrome because it was so slow. It would lag when I opened a new tab and started typing to get to another site. Many times, the first few characters off a hostname or search would get dropped.

Tried again about six months ago, and I haven't looked back. Firefox is great again. Not sure if the Rust adoption happened between those two points in time.

I still have to use Chrome for Hangouts for work. And still trying to figure out a way around this.

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There have been a lot of incremental changes, but the big one was "Firefox Quantum" in November 2017

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox...

IIRC hangout works with firefox if you spoof user agent
Thanks! I'll try that.