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urghhhhh but firefox just doesn't perform as well. i tried, i really did. i found a 15 year old (!!) bug affecting svg drawing performance that was fucking up a page i was working on, i'm not imagining it.
I'm not sure if it's the same one but i just found a similar bug with a five year old comment saying i guess we're not fixing it anytime soon... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483868
I do have it installed and check in occasionally but it feels like a downgrade when i try to use it as a daily driver.
is there any way to get a functional de-googled chromium build with settings sync across devices?
That seems like an extremely niche issue.
The sentiment feels on point however, that this users experience with Firefox has been poor and issues flagged have not resolved in an eternity. I've definitely felt similar exhaustion with other systems.
Exactly. Present me an alternative that isn't just better in principle, but as good or better in actual fact. I don't like that Google is up in my asshole, but you know what? their shit works and issues get addressed.
I'm gonna go ahead and assume that every person on here talking about this problem is an arch Linux user like me (btw) because if you're griping about chrome from a Windows OS that's some kind of hilarious hypocrisy.
So it's ok to not fix it? I agee with original commenter. Firefox is full of bugs, particularly in dev tools, which renders it unusable for me
Every software has old bugs, that's perfectly normal. The question is how relevant these bugs are for the average customer.
If a bug only affects 12 people among the millions of users, it's not that relevant.
as a dev, we close bugs with a set SLA.
15 years is .. well, it's outside that.
it's not that niche - svg is a common format and it was difficult to work around. my point was more that the issue was known and just unlikely to ever be fixed, which makes me concerned about other issues I'm not experiencing today but might tomorrow.
I honestly would prefer to be using Firefox.
I have used it as a daily driver on PC and phone for years. It works great for me. There are compatibility issues that force me on Edge sometimes, but I try to keep those as short as possible.
> > > It works great for me. There are compatibility issues that force me on Edge sometime > >
Sounds like it doesn't work great
The main one is my timesheet software which only works via legacy IE webapp (seriously). The other is Google Meet, which doesn't have full features in Firefox. So I'm forced to open that one in a Chrome tab
Sounds like the website developers fault and not the browser. So it probably still works great.
I use Firefox on PC and I'm happy with it there. But on my phone Firefox isn't great. Scrolling and zooming is pretty choppy, not excessively but it shouldn't be choppy at all.
Edit: after posting this I tried using Firefox again for a while. I take back the "excessively" part. It is distractingly slow, there's no reason for it to be that bad
yeah I really notice the difference. I wish I didn't, I'd rather use Firefox, but it feels slower and I want my settings syncing between devices
Just curious, does that only affect macOS?
I tried on Linux and saw no hanging nor any cores at 100% usage, bit slow on performance though, yes
I'm on windows but I think the Mac testing bed had the issue too
it was a couple of years ago and I've tried ff since and it's good, there's just always a reason to switch back.
I see, could the bug report have just been forgotten by now? Long time, lol
Anyway, use what works for you honestly, Firefox is cool, but it doesn't have to be the only one