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by _piif 2245 days ago
I occasionally have Firefox freeze due to some site's script freezing, forcing me to end it through task manager as Firefox won't respond to any button clicks.

Also (unless I missed something) there's still no way to get hardware video acceleration on Firefox on Linux outside of Wayland. When I'm on Linux I'm also installing Chromium (with the VA-API patches applied) entirely for YouTube as my CPU usage ramps up immensely when watching videos. Watching videos in mpv (or equivalent software) is an alternative, but I like the convenience of watching videos directly through the browser.

Other than that though Firefox has been rock solid for me and has been my daily browser for years now.

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I've notice a bit of this on Linux but it never bothered me, however, I feel like it's gotten considerably better lately. For example, I use to have to keep Twitch open in it's own browser instance or else the stream would become very low quality, or even die completely, when I went to another tab. That doesn't seem to be a problem anymore, but I don't know if it's anything FF did.