[_8j50]

Can they focus on making it perform as well as Chrome?

I mean, I support their efforts and all but I am forced to use a chrome based browser because FF has poor windows/sso integration and absolutley horrible memory management. A tab of any tool's webui that does a lot of work with a lot of data will not only bring firefox to a halt but the entire system. I can at least try to use it for soft workloads but you never know when visiting the wrong page will cause this issue again. Why can't it manage it's impact on the rest of the system?

My job performance would tank dramarically if I used firefox exclusively!

Why can't they work to make it better than Chrome? They were throwing Rust at it a few years ago,so what happened? Do they just not test against the right sites?

I mean, the mozilla foundation is not poor. They have money. Is it just politics or do they think getting gmail and youtube to work is all that is needed? I am only saying all this because i like firefox. Mozilla needs a wake up call. Do they not get the problems at hand or do they not care or do they lack some resource or motivation? I mean I will be happy to even buy a license for firefox if they get it to even come close to Chrome's performance. Maybe they have too many well intended fanboy's cheeeing them on?

[Liquid_Fire]

Perhaps the specific websites you are using are particularly bad on Firefox (whether due to issues with the website or Firefox), but I do not share your experience at all. For me Firefox is fast and I never see it using too much memory, much less bringing the whole system to a halt.

So my suggestion is to file bugs for any websites that perform particularly badly for you.

[_8j50]

Specific? Yes ,but it's a ton of sites. The site devs basically give up on firefox.

[justinph]

Maybe this is a windows thing? I use Firefox on MacOS and it is more performant than Chrome. I rarely have to restart Firefox. Chrome needs a restart at least twice a day (I use Chrome for google hangouts a lot).

This changed recently with Firefox Quantum, which was v69 or v70. I noticed a significant speedup at that point.

[rebelwebmaster]

Firefox switched to CoreAnimation in v70, which made a big difference.

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...

[_8j50]

Maybe it is a windows thing, when browing sites on non-work/non-productivity sites on Linux I have no issues but then again that's a different set of tasks

[hu3]

On MacOS, Safari is superior in performance and battery life.

[TheRealPomax]

What happened? They released it in version 69. Since then, Firefox has been running on that Rust engine, called Servo, has been much, much faster than it used to be.

[MikusR]

Firefox is not based on Servo. It uses only some parts of that project.

[jeltz]

They are focusing on performance. Firefox performance has improved a lot the last couple of years.

[Scarbutt]

They can't compete with Google on engineering. Also, Google attracts better talent and pays more.