I switched from chrome to firefox and it's SHOCKINGLY bad (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by kleeon@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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God I wish chrome didn't remove manifest v2 meow-tableflip

Here is the list of things that piss me off about firefox:

It is dogshit slow
It eats up a ludicrous amounts of RAM, which I wasn't expecting since it's one of the main things people make fun of chrome for
It crashes constantly
It tries to push it's "AI" bullshit on me despite me turning it off on multiple occasions
It puts ads on my home page
It needs to be relaunched regularly because at some point it becomes too laggy to use. It even stops loading pages altogether
"Restore previous session" feature doesn't work half the time so restarting the browser is absolutely terrifying
Profile management is a mess

Are there any alternatives? Is Brave any good?

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[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I apologize for saying this, but iwomm. Librewolf fixes the ads and AI, I cannot reproduce the RAM issues (it uses less than chrome for me), crashing, speed and need for relaunch. The profiles and session restoration do suck though.

[-] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

use zen

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I'll give you that it crashes constantly. I have had crashing problems with firefox for the last couple of months. Wasn't happening before.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I might have just switched at an unlucky time. I feel like some of my performance issues have been improved after the last update and I don't think I've had a single crash in a few days now

[-] WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Valid tbh. I just installed Firefox on a friend’s pc and they were immediately blasted with ads and ai bullshit. I turned it all off but that would leave a gross taste in my mouth if I was new to it myself.

I will say (alongside everyone else it seems) that once you turn it off you forget about these things because in my experience they’re pretty good with respecting me leaving them off.

[-] disco@lemdro.id 2 points 1 week ago

You gotta use librewolf

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