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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.

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[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used it mainly for debugging sites until whichever update made it fast again recently. It’s noticeably improved.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I never got this whole "speed" argument.

I never had a lot of difference between both browsers (never got to use chrome much, admittedly), but even when it was supposedly "bad", Firefox never struck me as being especially slow.

Was it a windows thing or what?

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The Firefox team made some announcement about the performance improvements so I gave it another shot and found they weren’t joking around. On ‘slow’ work-issued computers (especially with spinning rust drives) - Chrome was snappier. This was experienced mainly on Debian and MacOS. I switched over completely after this v3 insanity was announced so it was like night and day for me.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

I definitely noticed, before quantum (like 5 years ago) single page apps and frameworks like react were becoming a thing, and it was noticeably less snappy than chrome

After they announced the rewrite to better handle shadow doms and partial repaints, I switched for everything but development

Since then, they've done another rewrite, and the dev tools are closer, so I only open chrome when a site I have to use isn't working, or by client request

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

I think it was from a time when you could notice the difference. Now it’s just a race towards marginal gains.