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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm not talking about pulling more people. I'm talking about my issue as an existing and looooong term user of Firefox. I started using a very low end phone recently, and Firefox vs Chrome on it is night and day difference. I don't notice it on my galaxy phone, but on low end devices it's torturous.

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

Oh, you mean FF for Android? Yeah, on that front it really needs a ton of work. On the desktop side things are pretty much fast to a point where in real world use the difference is minimal.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I still use it all the time exept when a page crash. Wich unfortunately happened too often with Firefox lately. I have a Pixel 8 and it crashes/freeze when scrolling heavy pages or PDF.

It's annoying that the browser I want to use is crashing so often. But I won't use Chrome unless I'm forced to, wich the only reasons I was forced to was Firefox freezing.