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The Dying Web | Matthias Endler (endler.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by Vincent@feddit.nl to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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I look left and right, and I'm the only one who still uses Firefox.

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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And then they made it a bloated mess and I went back to Firefox when they got their act together and opening the browser didn't tank ram usage

I don't think it was being turned into a bloated mess, as much as that it always was pretty slow, until Google started investing a lot in JS performance with the release of Chrome, and showed how fast it could be.

(Well, and as a result, websites started becoming more demanding, which did make browsers that didn't keep up slow down more.)

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Compared to the resources it used to take chrome is absolutely a resource hog and that's why I describe it as bloated. I wasn't describing Firefox as bloated. But I agree with you that it was slow and a bit clunky back then which is part of the reason I moved away from it.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh sorry, yeah I misread (and almost did it again just now) - I thought you mentioned that they made Firefox a bloated mess back when you switched to Chrome. Apologies!

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No worries. No it just got slow and I had problems with crashing but that could even have been windows at the time (the problems with freezing were definitely probably related to the Internet quality).