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by ChubbyGlasses 937 days ago
I like FF as much as the next person and have been using it as my daily driver for a while now, but FF doesn't hold a candle to the responsiveness or snappiness of Chrome. It's especially noticeable on content or media rich sites where FF crawls down to a halt. The general browsing experience is nowhere near as good or refined as Chrome's, but when there's literally no better option you kinda just have to suffer through a sub-par browser.
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I keep seeing these kind of comments and wonder why that might be. I personally run Firefox on 2 different laptops running Windows 11, one of the laptops is dual boot and I also run Firefox on Linux (Fedora). In my previous company I also used Firefox on MacOS.

I've had exactly zero performance issues. I watch YouTube, Netflix, AppleTV+, HBO. I access many SPAS. I use Google Meet for conference calls at work. I use websites that have a custom video player to watch their stuff.

CPU and memory usage are always low. No freezing. Nada.

I'm not questioning you or anything, I'm genuinely curious why some people seem to have these issues.