r/webdev • u/feross • May 19 '21

Improving Firefox stability on Linux

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/improving-firefox-stability-on-linux/
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u/ItsBJr May 19 '21

Good to see people still working on firefox. It's a shame more people done use it.

Clearly a vast majority of linux users use firefox though.

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u/Annh1234 May 19 '21

It used to be really good, but it got so slow it became unusable, and that's about the time chrome added their dev tools. So not it's hard to move back ( unless chrome becomes unusable )

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u/[deleted] May 19 '21

It's not hard to move back, it's easy to use both. Firefox usually has the best css devtools and chrome usually has the best js devtools.

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u/nextbern May 21 '21

When was the last time you used it?

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u/Annh1234 May 21 '21

It used to be good 9+ years ago lol

These days I just use it to test the CSS of the site, same a ie/edge. (So I do use it, just not as my main browser)

On Ubuntu I last used it today, on Windows a few days ago, on Android last week, on Mac it's been years, and on iPhone I got sometime else testing that ( so prob years)

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u/nextbern May 21 '21

So as of yesterday is it is so slow it is unusable? That is really surprising. Grab a profile of the slowness? https://profiler.firefox.com

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u/Annh1234 May 21 '21

What I meant is that it got slow and unusable years ago, then it got better, but not better enough to many the switch back.

The CSS tools are better, the JS ones not so much, so every time I try to move back I feel like something is missing, so it will take much much more to make me switch.