How much does it really matter to use firefox? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by wtry@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I donate to the Mozilla foundation, and I love Firefox a ton. But I can't seem to like the UI by installing a theme, and when I change it to look better the browser slows to a crawl. Does it really matter all that much if I use Chromium?

P.S. To the people from my last post regarding something similar, Firefox was too slow, I'm sorry, but I use Vivaldi instead of Brave because Brendon Eich can suck my dick.

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[-] tun@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

using firefox on Linux with i5 6th gen, ddr3 32gb.

have over 100 tabs. most are suspended. cannot say it is slow.

edit: running with NVMe

[-] wtry@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

I use a laptop with about 6GB of ram :/

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Browser ram usage will just about always max out the available ram. It's by design. It's keeping open as much as it can for a faster user experience. As you run other programs, the browser should be giving up ram (blanking more tabs) to give it to the programs demanding it.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

FF runs fine on my 4gb netbook and 2gb raspi, I think you might have other bottlenecks on your system that are causing your issues

[-] tun@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

do your laptop has HDD by any chance? if so, changing HDD to SSD would give your laptop a new life.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago

It's a fairly low cost upgrade as well, so I highly recommend it.

[-] Bebo@literature.cafe 0 points 8 months ago

Firefox runs better than chrome browser in my very old laptop with 3GB RAM. In fact this was the reason I used only Firefox on my old laptop.

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