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Every time they release a new version, I see "performance improvements". The truth is that firefox performance sucks, it feels slow*, runs slow and crashes often.
Flexbox is awesome when writing web applications, its like designing a GUI in GTK+ or other toolkits, you can have hbox and vbox and containers and define them as growable or shrinkable and they auto-adjust.
WebRTC is awesome, it allows you to do VoIP and webcam chatting over the web, now we can get some competition against Skype.
asm.js and OdinMonkey are awsome, it makes JavaScript faster.
Every time they release a new version, I see "performance improvements". The truth is that firefox performance sucks, it feels slow*, runs slow and crashes often.
*On a Dual Core 3Ghz processor with 4GB of RAM.
Same here, on a midrange SNB Laptop, 4GB. Firefox feels slower with each release. Example? Filling Text edits with some paragraphs -> selecting can take up to 2 seconds (here), completely freezing the browser. Did not experience this with <19.x (currently running 21.0).
Every time they release a new version, I see "performance improvements". The truth is that firefox performance sucks, it feels slow*, runs slow and crashes often.
*On a Dual Core 3Ghz processor with 4GB of RAM.
have you tried running with a fresh profile or with any pluggins you have disabled?
Every time they release a new version, I see "performance improvements". The truth is that firefox performance sucks, it feels slow*, runs slow and crashes often.
*On a Dual Core 3Ghz processor with 4GB of RAM.
... compared to what?
At least its not slow-like-chrome. That bitch is useless-slow.
Every time they release a new version, I see "performance improvements". The truth is that firefox performance sucks, it feels slow*, runs slow and crashes often.
*On a Dual Core 3Ghz processor with 4GB of RAM.
I don't have any of these problems with firefox on a 2.5ghz dual core. In fact when it comes to smooth scrolling firefox is the best performing browser I've used (chrome's scrolling is atrocious even with the smooth scroll flag, and chrome's smooth scroll doesn't work at all with the middle click universal scroll, and also doesn't work on certain webpages, its pretty ridiculous for a browser in 2013 to have sich poor scrolling). This is the main reason I take firefox over chrome any day of the week. When it comes to stability, page rendering speed and such I barely notice any difference between firefox and chrome. Chrome's UI is slightly more responsive under load but thats about it. When it comes to memory usage I've found chrome to actually be significantly more memory hungry than firefox (although this doesn't really bother me either way, I have 8gb ram)
Amount of cores, frequency or RAM don't mean performance.
Yes and no. If a task is single threaded, multiple cores don't matter (I'm not sure if FF is). If you're using a CPU architecture with shorter pipelines than it's previous generation (such as Bulldozer), frequency is less important. If you aren't using all 4GB of RAM, then memory makes little impact - especially in a web browser, where you'll be spending more time waiting for the internet than you would for your memory to clean up.
Either way, I'm getting the impression FF is now the new IE. MS seems to be paying a lot more attention to IE now that they realize everyone is blaming them for holding back the internet.
No, I'd say Chrome is the new IE. it implements things differently than any other browser. There are now these sites that only work right in Chrome and nothing else.
Firefox is definitely not holding anything back, it is still much more able than IE10, has better compatibility and usability than either Opera or Safari. True it isn't the speed king anymore, but I don't notice it getting slower at all either.
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