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I switched from chrome to firefox and it's SHOCKINGLY bad (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by kleeon@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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God I wish chrome didn't remove manifest v2 meow-tableflip

Here is the list of things that piss me off about firefox:

It is dogshit slow
It eats up a ludicrous amounts of RAM, which I wasn't expecting since it's one of the main things people make fun of chrome for
It crashes constantly
It tries to push it's "AI" bullshit on me despite me turning it off on multiple occasions
It puts ads on my home page
It needs to be relaunched regularly because at some point it becomes too laggy to use. It even stops loading pages altogether
"Restore previous session" feature doesn't work half the time so restarting the browser is absolutely terrifying
Profile management is a mess

Are there any alternatives? Is Brave any good?

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As I tell them, your issues are probably due to a misconfiguration issue.

And what issue would that be? I simply installed firefox and then used it normally for the past month. I guess my "misconfiguration issue" was installing firefox.

I'm going to point by point rebuttal

I'm not sure how you can rebut my personal experience.

Slow, don't know what you mean, I use it every day. Do you perhaps have other add-ons or something running in it that's causing it to slow down or maybe sites that don't work appropriately?

I mean youtube videos would stop responding to input for several seconds, pages would stutter randomly, pages would completely refuse to load etc. It gets worse the longer the browser is left running. I have a handful of simple extension installed - ad blocker, proxy client, basic dev tools. Here is the full list if you're curious:

spoiler

Adblock Plus

Cookie-Editor

Imagus

Proxy SwitchyOmega 3

Reddit Enhancement Suite

Return Youtube Dislike

Tempermonkey

Vue.js devtools

What AI bullshit are they pushing on you? I didn't even know Firefox had AI features. That's how little it bothers me and how little it actually comes up.

I mentioned it in another comment. There is an "AI chatbot" button on the left side of the screen. It would popup the panel randomly when I start the browser. Currently it's turned off but I have no confidence it won't come back in the future. Do you honestly think Mozilla Corp. is immune to "AI" slop?

Yes, their ad model is annoying, and the fact that they have ads to support themselves suck, but they have to make money somehow, and nobody else is paying for it

I just don't care how Mozilla makes it's money. I wouldn't be complaining about ads if everything else worked properly

I've literally never had the restore previous feature never not work for me

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I'm not entirely sure you can handle a browser correctly

I guess that's the problem. It's a very complicated piece of technology after all - a thing where you type in a website url and then it renders it for you

[–] dastanktal@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I simply installed firefox and then used it normally for the past month. I guess my "misconfiguration issue" was installing firefox.

This is clearly a skill issue from somebody that's unable to use the event viewer in Windows.

I don't mind trash-talking software, but I think it should be deserved and not because of some poor kid's inability to run a computer correctly.

As far as AI, Mozilla is a complicated company that makes missteps and mistakes all the time, but they do make one of the best commercially viable privacy tested browsers.

Sorry, buddy, when Google Chrome is also pushing it, your point's invalid.

Edit:

Your list of extensions does not inspire confidence, especially when you're using Adblock Plus instead of a real adblocker like ublock origin. Did you even check to see if the extensions you were using were causing the problems by turning them off or using a private window?

Cookie editors can cause major problems with websites, and Adblock Plus seems to be a headache from what I've heard to use.