• _I_@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I actually use Edge as a daily, but I also use Firefox because I want to support them. Unfortunately, Edge and Chrome are superior to Firefox in performance. Edge especially is really really great at resource management, and it doesn’t matter if I have 1 or 700 tabs and windows open. It’ll manage it without any issues. Firefox however, won’t. Sure, it’s rich in features and it’s very very flexible, but it’s not as stable or fast as the former.

    Still love Firefox, though!

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      1 year ago

      Well if you use Firefox Nightly with ad-blockers and the latest version of Windows Defender the performance will be comparable to edge and chrome, the only thing is that Firefox uses the RAM that you are not using and that means if you have something open it will run slower.

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        1 year ago

        cpu and memory on my firefox and edge are about equivalent but I have some browser add ons for managing lots of tabs. I have way more on firefox because its my main browser but I have a fair amount on edge which I use like scratchpad.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe I’ve got my head in the sand or I’ve got overkill with ram but Firefox is smooth as butter for me.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, we’re basically in the category of “I have a fairly powerful computer and I shouldn’t really care about this, but I do care since I love software optimalization, but normal people won’t even know or care about what I’m talking about”.

        Yes, this kinda happened to me tonight 🫤 With that said, Edge is smoother than Firefox, and faster. I guess we’re enemies now. I’m upvoting you, though. No need to act like the Brits, right 😒