[jpdus]

Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user. I am on Firefox as my main browser for web and mobile since 4 years.

I am just in the process of switching back to Chrome, as Firefox got continuously worse over time. Can't handle lots of tabs, crashes/freezes randomly, weird UI bugs... It's just very disappointing :/.

[fredoliveira]

Could this be your particular profile acting up? My experience is that it is pretty stable across multiple machines, multiple OSses and for many many years.

[MattPalmer1086]

I think you're over generalising your bad experience on desktop. I've used Firefox since it was called Phoenix on numerous Windows and Linux machines and I don't recall ever having those problems.

Mobile Firefox I completely agree. That was a complete mess after they rewrote it. Crashes, UI bugs, you name it. I tried, but eventually couldn't take it any more and switched to Opera for Android which works nicely enough for me. The only thing mobile Firefox had in common with the desktop is the product name, they aren't the same software at all. Very disappointing.

[28304283409234]

Using Firefox exclusively on Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. I have none of those problems. Perhaps some obscure addon you're running?

[erklik]

> Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user

I currently have over 250 tabs open, all actually open actively running things in the background, and I haven't closed my two Firefox windows in the last 6-7 months. I constantly run fairly heavy CPU-usage web apps and FF's not crashed in the last 6 months at least..

Let's not generalise your experience to the rest.. Like "It runs on my machine" isn't a valid statement usually, "It doesn't run on my machine" also mostly isn't.

[ranguna]

(Firefox user here and I'm not planning on switching)

Your argument also works against yourself.

[HenryBemis]

I am sorry to see you have a bad experience with FF. It must be you and only you. I am sure that in your BAU you enjoy being tracked for everything you do, every page you see, etc. etc. I've been using FF since 2005 and I cannot remember when was the last time it crashed. Perhaps it did in 2008 (I remember having problems and FF crashing - and I was living in 'that flat' at the time. But no probs since.

[vandahm]

I've had a similar experience. I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and I can count on my fingers the times when the browser actually crashed.

[PetitPrince]

> Can't handle lots of tabs

As someone with a tab counter routinely in the 60s (Tree Style Tabs is life), I can only offer you a "it works fine with me (tm)" counterpoint. I only noticed show-stopping performance issue way back when I tried to dabble my feet in the Apple ecosystem back in 2009 (I began using FF shortly after it was renamed from Firebird).

[Aardwolf]

I've used mozilla/firefox for over 20 years (this includes mozilla browser before FF) on desktop and 10+ years on mobile, and don't have these problems.

Multiple firefox windows per virtual desktop with dozens of tabs each, no issues.

I use Chrome too, mainly for development (its JS dev tools), so I know what to compare to.

[roydivision]

I switched to FF from Chrome about a month ago, I'm very happy, no issues.

[robin_reala]

Obviously this shouldn’t be like this in the first place, but potentially you’ve got profile corruption. If you’re going to switch anyway, you could try resetting your profile from about:support first.

[mcv]

Firefox can't handle lots of tabs?! What are you talking about?

I completely lost track of how many tabs I have open. I lost track of how many windows I have open, and each window has way too many tabs. It must be hundreds. I have a serious problem.

But Firefox doesn't. Firefox keeps churning along nicely as if my current tab is the only one I've got. Firefox enables tab hoarders like me a lot better than Chrome ever did.

[sabellito]

I don't have this experience at all, not even close.

[werid]

i have close to 2000 tabs and have stellar performance and no crashes.

chrome on the other hand, tabs will randomly crash if left open for more than a day or two.

[pferde]

My anecdote can beat up your anecdote!

[dageshi]

Works just fine for me.

[b112]

Probably referring to firefox on android. There way they rewrote it, and put an alpha version in the hands of end users was pathetic.

It was a long time before it even had extensions again, it was horribly unstable, it lacked functionality, and it still does.

You really couldn't work harder at torpedoing a product, than do what Mozilla did with Firefox on Android. I've often wondered if Google offered the team in charge a hire away, and massive pay raises to do this, because what else would allow for such incompetence?

Something is horribly broken at Mozilla.

[CTOSian]

There still issues with the FF on android, I have apps that redirect a page (eg for authentication in most of the cases) to the web browser and waiting back a response from it to continue, this works on on chrome but alas not FF